Mastercard partners with LEAF to expand financial inclusion and increase the incomes of more than 1 million farmers
After a rigorous two-year pilot in Andhra Pradesh, this partnership aims to drive financial inclusion in the farmer community across South India and contribute to doubling of their incomes · Soft launched in early 2021, LFN is now serving more than 110,000 farmers and 180 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) India October 2021: To improve financial access and inclusion for more than one million of farmers in India, Mastercard today announced a partnership with Lawrencedale Agro Processing India (LEAF), India’s premier agriculture value chain enabler, to launch LEAF Farmer Network (LFN). This platform will transform the lives of Indian farmers by leveraging technology aided by human intervention, to solve multiple challenges of transparency in India’s rural ecosystem. LFN will empower farmers across Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu with digitization of harvest data, enhance access to markets, provide expertise on better crops, and importantly, bring in a