AgroMerchant, FoodHubs Store, Crop2Crash, and Smart Farms from Nigeria have been picked to pitch at the Innov8Agric Challenge. They will do this during the Meet the Farmers Conference (MTFC) which will hold on October 10, 2018 at Intercontinental Hotel, Lagos.
The start-ups were picked based on their originality, viability and the innovativeness of their ideas.
The competition is aimed at promoting ground-breaking ideas for early stage Agric entrepreneurs from all sectors in the agricultural ecosystem, using creative and innovative methods to change the landscape of its value chain in Africa. The competition will guide Agri-tech entrepreneurs around their way in the industry and will open them up to funding and investment opportunities in Africa and the GCC region.
Qualitrace, a Ghana-based traceability and anti-counterfeiting start-up that uses track and trace technology to authenticate product farm inputs and outputs won the Ghanaian edition of the Innov8Agric Challenge, AgriQ & Automations of Kenya won the Kenyan edition of the challenge while Spiderbit won the Rwanda Innov8Agric Challenge.
AgroMerchant is a pan-African and agro-supply chain, mobile-solutions start-up focused on offering crowd-investing and crowd-sharing of fresh farm produce.
Crop2Cash is a platform that connects farmers to profitable markets. It helps farmers sell the crops they grow to industries and processors.
FoodHubs uses mobile solar powered cold room carts to help smallholders’ farmers store their produce so as to avoid post-harvest losses.
SmartFarms provides a co-working space for farming where mechanization, ICT tools, Irrigation facilities are accessible and affordable to maximize farm productivity.
The challenge is a part of MTFC, an agro conference organised by Crenov8 Consulting and it is targeted at connecting large scale agro commodity producers to buyers and investors in the Middle East.
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