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OMID, a non- profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2009, is dedicated to a market-driven, agriculture-based solution that can sustain subsistence farmers, increase their productivity, and maximize their income.

We create income opportunities for the subsistence farmers through innovative design solutions and micro-credit lending. Our technologies are affordable, highly scalable, and replicable, and attack poverty at its roots by satisfying the basic needs of subsistence farmers in a sustainable manner. Our goal is to increase, by a factor of three or more, the earning power of over one million people through agriculture-related technical assistance and micro-credit lending.

OMID began with an idea: to address the global concerns of poverty and access to clean water. One of the solutions developed by OMID and students from the University of Cincinnati is displacement of water by using the Portable Renewable Energy Platform (PREP)TM. This is a highly mobile solar-powered energy platform, used for various purposes such as drip irrigation, that costs less than $250. Other development initiatives include environmental-friendly distillation of brackish water for agricultural purposes, cold-storage of produced products, and post-production pressing of the products.