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Certification

Certify a plan, not a quiz.

RIMAI certifies that you produced a bankable venture plan for real land, assessed against a fixed rubric. You become a RIMAI Certified Agribusiness Professional in your Major and your country, and a lender can verify it.

Submit a planRead the rubricVerify a certificate
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The path to certification

RIMAI is a 14-day course of 12 modules: 11 Core Course modules, then module 12, where you choose your Major and complete your Capstone on it.

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Modules 1 to 11

Core Course

Eleven modules on the business of farming, ending with people, community and labour.

Open the Core Course
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Module 12

Your Major

One of twenty commodity businesses, studied to the entry route.

See the Majors
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Module 12

Your Capstone

A costed plan on your Major for your own land, submitted for certification.

Read the Capstone

What you receive

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The designation

RIMAI Certified Agribusiness Professional, in your Major and your country, valid for two years.

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A certified venture plan

Your plan, stamped as a RIMAI Certified Venture Plan, with its score and the date of the data it rests on.

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A reference code

Anyone can confirm the certificate on the verification page by reference code or holder name.

How certification works

US$18 per certification code.

Learning is free. The code pays for the assessment of your plan. It covers one submission and one resubmission, and it is bound to your name at first submission, so it cannot be passed on.

Certificates are valid for two years because the figures they rest on move every season. To renew, resubmit the plan on current data.

Find a sales agent

Request a code on WhatsApp

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From a plan in the Toolkit, to a certification code on the phone, to a certificate a lender can checkUS$181 Plan2 Code3 Certificate4 Lender checks it
1Learn free and build the plan
Work through the Core Course, your Major and the Capstone. Build your venture plan in the Toolkit until T-CAP-01 reads 6 of 6.
2Buy a certification code
Buy a code for US$18 from a RIMAI sales agent, or request one on WhatsApp. One code covers one assessment and one resubmission.
3Submit your workbook
Submit your completed Toolkit workbook with your code, your name and your land details. The plan must be for land you hold or can use.
4Assessment against the rubric
An assessor scores the plan against the fixed rubric across nine criteria. The pass mark is 80 out of 100.
5Certificate and reference code
A plan that passes is certified. You become a RIMAI Certified Agribusiness Professional, and your certificate carries a reference code a lender can check.
6Resubmit if needed
A plan that falls short gets written feedback against each criterion. Fix it and resubmit on the same code. After two submissions, a new code is needed.

What your certificate number unlocks

Your certificate number is recognised on Musika, Mashofe.com, Moeletsi Africa and Chinyama.com.

The reference code on your certificate is the key the partner platforms read. Give it when you sign up, and the platform checks it against the RIMAI register.

MusikaFast-tracks RIMAI graduates as verified produce suppliers.
Mashofe.comFlags a RIMAI graduate's loads as coming from a trained operator.
Moeletsi AfricaGives RIMAI graduates priority onboarding.
Chinyama.comMarks RIMAI graduates as verified sellers.
See the partner platformsVerify a certificate
A RIMAI certificate number at the centre, recognised by Musika, Mashofe.com, Moeletsi Africa and Chinyama.comOne certificate number, four platformsRIMAI-ZW-M12-2026-0001MusikaVerified produce supplierMashofe.comTrained-operator loadsMoeletsi AfricaPriority onboardingChinyama.comVerified seller

Ready to submit?

Your plan reads 6 of 6

When T-CAP-01 in the Toolkit reads Ready to submit for certification, send the workbook in with your code for assessment.

Submit your plan

Not there yet

Finish the Capstone first. The plan must be your own figures, for land you hold or can use.

Back to the Capstone