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Our Impact

Growth that runs through farmers, not around them

The Outgrower Network is smallholder farmers operating under the Onion Operating System — not a single mega-farm. It's how Yenko scales without needing to own every acre it works with.

Why the outgrower model works

Capital-efficient
Growth through many smallholder plots under one system, not one mega-farm requiring large upfront land capital.
Socially inclusive
Farmers operate under the Onion Operating System as partners, not laborers on land they don't own.
Scalable
Adding a new region means onboarding outgrowers to the existing system, not building new farm infrastructure from zero.

How we partner

Local integration
Farmer partnerships are structured to align incentives between Yenko and the outgrower — with terms set and refined season by season as the model is field-tested.
Direct oversight
Key inputs and equipment are provided and tracked directly, rather than left to informal arrangement.
Local respect
We partner with farmers; we don't extract from them.
Fail forward
Every season's model is documented, evaluated, and refined — every failure in the field becomes a lesson that improves the system for every outgrower after.

Where this is going

The 10-year target expands the outgrower network to 100+ farmers by Year 3–5, with storage infrastructure following the same data-led logic — see Technology & Storage.