Ten young innovators have been awarded $7,400 in grants to scale up clean, affordable, time-saving, labour and energy saving agricultural technologies for smallholder farmers.
They emerged from previous 30 shortlisted applicants under the United Nations University, Institute for Natural Resources in Africa's (UNU INRA) Innovate for Clean Agricultural Technologies' (INFoCAT), an initiative that seeks to harness innovation solutions to support the development simple technologies to reduce drudgery long of the agric value chain.
Awardees included iSOLAR, innovators of a smart solar-powered irrigation system that leverages solar energy for efficient irrigation, Harvest Ease, an organisation focused on agricultural mechanisation and small harvesters, and Sunify Solar Dry Technology, a startup specialising in grain and seed drying, using mobile solar mechanical dryers.
SAYeTECH, which produces smart post-harvest agricultural machines, Das Biogas, focused on sustainable energy solutions that addresses both waste management and energy needs, and Hormeku-Massis Enterprise, a firm specialising in the production of machines for agriculural produce.
