Peatuce is using blockchain technology to solve age old problems that have consistently plagued the operations of smallholder farmers on the African continent; from poor financing to stringent policies, haphazard regulation, climatic changes and obsolete technology. Like Agrikore, Peatuce believes these challenges often create a stifled environment for the functionality ...
swiftVee is an agrotech startup based in South Africa and it is among the 12 startups selected for the Google Launchpad Accelerator. We interviewed Russel Luck, the MD of swiftVee. Luck threw more light in swiftVee, reacted to their selection and much more. Excerpts Can you tell us about swiftVee? My ...
Agriculture has gone beyond cutlass and hoe. With the aid of technology and the internet, agriculture has been mechanised. Consequently, anyone can now engage in farming. One of such startups taking advantage of this is Ghana’s Farmerline. Techmoran had an interview with Lindsey Allen, Partnership and Client Development Lead at Farmerline. ...
Isn't it impressive how much technology is going into Agriculture these days. I think it is. ProbityFarms is one of such platforms that have decided to leverage technology to improve the agricultural sector. And trust me, they have been doing a great job thus far. You'd find out in this ...
In 2015, the Motorcycle Assemblers Association of Kenya estimated that on average 8 million Kenyans used a boda boda daily, generating USD.3.9Million (Kes400.00Million) in revenue. Mombasa-based rent-to-own boda boda (motorcycle taxi) lender Watu Credit, has received US$1.5Million (Kes.156.Million) in debt finance via lending marketplace Lendable Inc., who secured the off-balance ...
Recently there's been a rise in the number of Nigerian startups offering solutions to the agriculture sector. One of them is Easyagro. We spoke with the founder, Oluwatoyin Alao in an interview, where he told us more about what his startup is doing. Tell us a little about yourself I'm ...
It's no longer new that small scale farmers in Nigeria struggle to promote produce, and reach target consumers. But with technology, the stress farmers face in Nigeria is gradually easing out. Recently, a number startups have sprung up to help farmers reach buyers with ease. Ajaoko.com.ng is one of the agro-startup you ...
If you're an Agriculture enthusiasts, professional or own an agro-business, and you've been seeking an opportunity to be interact with a team of like-minds, Agricbase.com, a hub for agribusiness and the go place for Agric enthusiast. has been launched to give you that. Founded by Shola Onoriemu in February 2017, ...
Easyagro is an e-commerce marketplace platform created specifically for small-scale farmers, all Agribusinesses and Final consumers of Agricultural products and services. Launched in August 2016 by Alao Ouwatoyin, users can buy and sell Agricultural products and services via the portal, compare prices of different sellers, find specific stores, search based ...
Although Agriculture contributes to 30% of Nigeria's GDP, a number of farmers still struggle to make things work, and grow their farms as a result of limited funds. Growsel is looking to change this by empowering under-financed farmers across Nigeria. The platform is a farmers’ marketplace that connects local farmers ...
Technology has over the years helped the growth of many industries by bringing them online, and making it easier for work to be done. But not much have been done for the agricultural industry in Africa, as only a few entrepreneurs have built agric-focused startups. Arthur Johnson Nwokolo has chosen ...
Heritiaina Randriamananatahina, 22 year old agriculture entrepreneur from Madagascar, is this year’s winner of the $25,000 Anzisha Grand Prize in the sixth annual edition of Africa’s premier award for youth entrepreneurship. Heritiaina is the founder of Fiombonana, an agro-processing enterprise that manufactures dairy products and confectioneries using only Malagasy raw ...
Farmers can hardly get a loan from a financial institution in Kenya and those that are willing to give them are still skeptical as farming itself is highly volatile but one young man thought differently. With everyone seeing farmers as unbankable, Award Winning Digital Marketer, Alex Mwaura Muriu saw an ...
Focused on early stage enterprises contributing innovative solutions to environmental issues such as climate change, energy insecurity, loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystems, the Green Pioneer Accelerator will on the Tuesday, June 9th in Nairobi, Kenya and on Thursday, June 11th in Cape Town, South Africa showcase 21 entrepreneurs ...
The Village Capital, The MasterCard Foundation, Duncan Goldie-Scot have announced the Village Capital FinTech for Agriculture: East Africa 2015 program for Financial Technology Start-ups in Agriculture for Accelerator that is expected to increase income for smallholder famers in East Africa. The program will involve 12 start-up firms that will undergo business ...
Nailab's SokoText, an SMS based ordering service for Mama Mbogas and African Laughter's FarmbizAfrica, a farmer news and information portal are among the 12 startups that have received funding from the Bestseller Fund organised by GrowthAfrica. The twelve were showcased to investors, development partners and financiers in a bid to ...
The Global Food Security Index (GFSI) by The Economist and DuPont measures a country’s level of food security on a scale of 0 (poor) to 100 (strong). 21 out of 29 countries (71%) covered by the GFSI in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are today more food secure than they were in ...
Early stage impact fund manager, Invested Development, has invested an undisclosed amount into Kenya's Procure, a mobile and web technology platform that provides software to enhance sales and inventory management in rural and peri-urban agriculture markets. The funding will help iProcure to improve farmers retail operations by improving their inventories, ...
The World Bank classifies a country as middle income if it has per capita gross national income (GNI) between US$906 and US$11,115. By the end of 2013, almost 50% of the 48 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) had attained middle-income status, up from 27% in 2006 and with additional 10 ...
The GrowthHub; a Nairobi based business accelerator has partnered with Bestseller Fund to run a 16 week program to accelerate 13 agribusiness startups in Kenya in a move to solve pressing problems in the agricultural value chain other than primary farming. Dubbed the Agribusiness Innovation programme, the initiative aims at helping ...
Farmbizafrica is an online farming news platform formerly called Webarazafarmer.com, launched April 2010 in a move to educate farmers on high yielding farming practices to strengthen food supply in the country. With a following of close to 100,000 farmers a month, Farmbizafrica.com provides farmers in the East African region with ...
