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Sesi Technologies & Maungo Craft win the $100K GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize

Milcah Lukhanyu by Milcah Lukhanyu
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Sesi Technologies and Maungo Craft have been named winners of the inaugural $100,000 Generation Africa GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize, a new competition to select two innovative ventures.

The two, Isaac Sesi of Sesi Technologies of Ghana and Bonolo Monthe of Maungo Craft of Botswana beat over 3,000 online applicants from 39 African countries for their innovation, market potential, traction and impact.

Founded in 2017, Maungo Craft works with oil producers and communities to turn underused indigenous fruits of Botswana into gourmet low-to-no-sugar preserves. Monthe’s co-founders are Olayemi Aganga and Taunyane Motseoeme.

Monthe was inspired to start her business when she saw morula fruit rotting all around town, believing the abundant indigenous fruit was valuable. Morula was underused for the fruit whilst the oil was used by cosmetic companies. It takes approximately 300 tonnes of fruit to get 12 tons of oil, so, she remarked, “I thought to myself, what happens to all of this fruit?” She and her co-founders did research and discovered that the inability to use the fruit hampers the growth of the gourmet preserves industry, thus she founded Maungo Craft which has since won 10 awards and were the first food company from Botswana to display at the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York, and has many partnerships in progress for both local and export markets.

Sesi Technologies Limited is an agritech company, tackling poverty and hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa by empowering farmers and businesses along the agricultural value chain with affordable technologies (currently GrainMate and FarmSense) to help reduce losses, increase productivity, yield and profits. His co-founder is Joseph Akowuah. Isaac Sesi was recently named by Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) 2019 Technology Review as one of the world’s top innovators under 35.

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“Our solutions seek to reduce post-harvest losses in grains and increase agricultural yield,” said Sesi in his competition application. “According to the World Bank, 112 million tonnes of grain is produced in sub-Saharan Africa annually with up to 40% suffering post-harvest losses. One way to reduce contamination is to measure the exact moisture in grains before storage to maintain the right moisture level. Their solution was GrainMate, an easy to use and affordable moisture tester. They also have another innovation called FarmSense which helps determine the pH, nutrients and moisture level in the soil before cultivation.

So far, the GoGettaz agripreneurship campaign has reached over 50 million young people across the continent since its launch on May 30.

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Other young Generation Africa GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize finalists this year included:

Leah Bessa, Gourmet Grubb, South Africa
-Agrifood venture that ethically-farms black soldier fly larvae which it processes into dairy alternatives such as “insect milk” ice cream in many flavours.

Steven Betcha, Ngomalands, DR Congo
-Technological platform that connects owners of uncultivated arable land with people seeking land for agricultural purposes, offering a package of services and products to increase productivity.

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Piwai Chikasha, Alley Capital Group, Zimbabwe

-Agritech company with customized, precision agricultural environmentally-friendly crop-spraying drone manufacture and service.

Starlin Farah, Ecodudu Limited, Kenya

Waste-to-value venture utilizing black soldier flies as rich source of protein for animal feeds while recycling organic waste into organic fertilizer.

Bertin Fokou, Distribution Express (DITEX), Cameroon

-A mobile and web app (called “WhatsNear”) developed to reduce the cost of transporting agricultural products by 50% by helping farmers to find transportation via GPS technology, affordable, fast, and near to pick-up place of production.

Lilian Nakigozi, Women Smiles, Uganda

-Social enterprise manufactures vertical farms to sells affordably to women in urban slums, especially in areas affected by drought. Bundle includes training in vermicomposting, with services that link customers using AI tech to markets to sell surplus produce.

Job Oyebisi, FarmCorps, Nigeria

-Agritech company that build and deploy cutting edge technologies and facilitate access to finance and market for smallholders to boost sustainable food production, using digital mobile identity systems, risk analysis and mobile payments to enable donors and others help finance farm inputs.

Siny Samba, Le Lionceau, Senegal

-Produces, and markets baby food made of local African raw materials with high nutritional value to improve nutritional health of moms and babies while strengthening the local food value chain by collaborating with local organic farmers.

Affiong Williams, Reelfruit, Nigeria

Largest dried fruit processing company in Nigeria by revenue and distribution, retailing a range of six unique dried fruit and nut snacks to over 250 retail locations in Nigeria as well as schools, airlines and hotels, plus exports to Europe and the US via Amazon.com.

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Several former and current heads of state including H.E. President Nana Akufo-Addo of Ghana and H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria, who chairs the Africa Food Prize Committee, attended the Gala event, which later in the evening awarded this year’s prestigious Africa Food Prize to Dr Emma Naluyima, a smallholder farmer and private veterinarian from Uganda, and Baba Dioum, a policy champion and agriculture entrepreneur from Senegal.

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