Sesi Technologies Ltd and Maungo Craft have been named winners of the 2019 GoGettaz Agriprenuer Prize. The startups from Ghana and Botswana beat 10 other startups to each win a cash prize of $50,000 to expand their businesses.
Meet the startups
Sesi Technologies Limited, Isaac Sesi, Ghana
Sesi Technologies is an Agri-Tech 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.
Maungo Craft, Bonolo Monthes, Botswana
Maungo Craft works with oil producers and communities to turn underused indigenous fruits of Botswana into gourmet low-to-no-sugar preserves. We put our culture in a bottle.
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An initiative of Generation Africa founded and financed by Yara International and ECONET, the GoGettaz Agriprenuer Prize is meant to empower, encourage and support the youth in Africa who have developed innovative agribusiness ideas to scale them up.
It is also to build on the efforts of other leading institutions to work collaboratively to strengthen the ecosystem that supports young agriprenuers across the continent to their journey from idea to scale.
The Chairman and Founder of Econet, Strive Masiyiwa said technology was driving change and promoting agriculture across the world.
He said some of the youth in Africa was making giant strides in the agribusiness sector and had developed innovative ideas to promote the sector and enhance food security on the continent and the programme was meant to help them with funding to expand on their businesses.
The Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Yara International, Svein Tore Holsethe said agriculture presented a huge opportunity for job creation and the youth must be supported and encouraged to enter into agriculture.
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