A solution to stabilise silicic acid to strengthen crop resilience against droughts and extreme weather. Crops can absorb silicon, resulting in a reduction of water consumption of 30-50%. Affordable and environmentally friendly solution to reduce drought stress.
Mobile App for Farming Training
Revolutionary services farming-centered platform. An SMS and voice-based mobile app that will work on the type of basic mobile phones that farmers own to provide them with access to critical agricultural information. A business model designed to expand rapidly and maximise our reach and impact without much dependence on funding.
Mobile Weather Forecasts
An SMS based highly accurate weather model to help small scale farmers in West Africa to predict water availability and improve their yields. The forecasts are accurate 84% of the time compared to its competitors (only 39%). Messages are low-cost and user friendly.
Social Media App for Agricultural Training
Multi channel application for education and communication that combines cutting-edge, cloud-based technologies and insights into efficient mobile advertising. Customers are activated and moved through the conversion funnel via immersive mobile experiences.
Secure & Sustainable Biogas Supply
Generation of a stable and sustainable waste based source of energy for poultry farmers that will protect their investments at a low cost. It will provide energy security, which is not the case at present due to energy shortages in Egypt.
Drip Irrigation System App
Patent-pending, is a point-of-sale and design application that makes it easy for retailers to customise drip irrigation systems for small-plot farmers based on entering a few parameters. An intuitive user friendly app that facilitates the opportunity to advise, sell and buy.
Climate Smart Agriculture in Congo
Building community resilience through AgTech and training. The aim is to reinforce the capacity of 1,500 rural households in terms of community resilience through a tool of adaptation to the changes and also by using the UVA drone.
Smart Eco Friendly Purchases
Saving communities with recyclable containers. The recyclable containers will benefit the population, as we offer affordable prices and great quality. It is also a source of employment, while also granting fair-trade to local farmers.
Full Mechanised Solar Energy Onion Farms
Full mechanised solar energy onion farms using precision farm tools to increase productivity and reduce the cost of growing onions, potatoes and vegetables.
Flying Sensors
These sensors provides high-resolution spatial information beyond the visual spectrum. They are equipped with near-infrared sensors the detect crop stress up to two weeks before it is observable by the human eye.
Community Building Through Upcycling
Eco-ethical and inclusive approach to sustainability and economic mobility. The enterprise aims to bridge the gap between the socially secluded communities of inmates and urban poor and the society’s wealthiest through sustainable products.
Broad Bed and Furrow Maker
A system used at planting time in order to drain excess water away from crops. It is a multi-purpose rider and bed maker used to draw excess water and conserve moisture in dry areas. This innovation has improved wheat yields from 0.5 to 3.8 tons per hectare.
Natural and Organic Bat Guano Fertilizer
Highly effective natural fertilizer made from organic bat guano. The business model is focused on training local people to do the extraction, helping them to create cooperatives, and then purchasing the guano from the cooperative.
Salt-Tolerant and Resilient Crops
The initiative is working to establish salt-tolerant seed production (barley, triticale, fodder beet, pearl millet, sorghum, safflower and quinoa) and exchange chains in Yemen and Egypt, were fresh water scarce. It is aimed at improving the livelihood of small-scale farmers.
SMS Controlled Irrigation System
Smart irrigation system monitored & controlled remotely
via SMS that helps farmers to manage the water usage efficiently as well as provides insights information such as soil humidity or temperature on the field.
Integrated Aquaculture Aquaponics System
Combined system to grow plants and animals vertically. A land-based aquaculture of fish and aquaponics that allows growing more of our own food in a sustainable manner using the least space possible.
Slurry-Separation System
This innovative slurry-separation system greatly reduces water demand. The system creates an easily managed fertiliser product while increasing gas production. It is eco- and gender-friendly, efficient and true cost-saver.
Roasted Date Seeds Coffee & Aloe Vera GMO free products
We strive uniqueness and sustainability by creating (1) GMO free organic products for personal care and (2) a profitable opportunity out of palm tree date seeds waste by turning them it into delicious roasted Dates seeds coffee that taste as good as regular coffee.
Affordable Greenhouses
Affordable greenhouses that enable a year-round growing season and reduction in water consumption. Theses greenhouses can be constructed in just two days at a price point of $500. The greenhouses are durable and last over five years.
Andean Cereals Against Hunger
Socially responsible model to fight children’s anaemia and malnutrition in Peru that results in a farmers’ income increase of 50% and reduces production costs by 20%.
Irrigation Scheduling System
This solution offers Peruvian smallholder farmers and agriculture technicians with direct indications on the best irrigation practices at an accessible cost. The solutions permits farmers to switch from turn driven irrigation to a demand driven system.
The “Chévre Rousse de Maradi” Goat
Substantial livestock increase based on a highly adaptable goat to the Subsaharan climate. The new method observes all the breeding needs as well as mitigates the effects of climate change.
Integrated Planted Solution
Integrated planted technology that allows fruits, trees and shrubs to grow in degraded farm and rangelands. This inexpensive technology revitalises degraded ecosystems, while provides valuable nutrition sources of fruits and feed to both humans and animals.
Smallholder Farming Value Chain Integration
Public-Private-Community Partnership model based on agro-ecology principles and practices to improve the family farming value chain. It uses a mobile phone application to better coordinate all the actors and guarantee sustainable transfer of knowledge in Zimbabwe and other developing countries.
Salt Tolerant Potato
The salt-tolerant potato crop offers an alternative to 250 million people globally that live on salt-affected soil. The initiative is building a cohort of farmers interested in testing their potato varieties. Numerous restaurants and hotels are also interested.
Online Fresh Food Store
Closing the agricultural value chain gap from production to market by setting up an online food store to market fresh products and deliver them to the customers’ doorsteps.
Coffee Based Value Added Products
We provide inclusive, alternative and higher value direct markets for the small holders in Uganda using unique market driven value added products, that increases local consumption and fosters jobs creation.
Aquaponics Farming
This system closes the loop between fish and horticultural crop farming to provide much needed nutritional supplements and alternative incomes to Ugandan citizens and farmers. The system uses less water and can be used at home.
Creating the World’s Most Efficient Farms
Provisionally patented system and software that produce 8 times the yield of traditional farms, while using 90% less water and green energy.
Growing Organic Food in Urban Areas
Aquaponic units to produce organic foods from fish excreta that are used as natural fertilisers. This solution makes it possible to obtain 2 to 3 times more healthy foods, saving 90% of water and reducing the carbon footprint in the environment by around 20%.
Digital Farm at Your Fingertips
Farm management software that provides real time information of what is happening in a farm allowing real time decisions regarding management and monitoring of the farm. The application can reduce the machinery fuel consumption by over 20%.
Optimal Conservation, Transformation and Commercialisation
A family history project to bring the final products from corn and groundnut to the shops closed to the consumers, who are usually housewives. Products are the main ingredients of household food.
Agri Business for Teens
Patented solution that incorporates technology and gives schools modern greenhouses and eLearning aimed at making agri-business education interesting, engaging and appealing to young Kenyans, so that they can consider agri-business as a career choice.
FAC finalists make it to the list of 80+
FAC finalists make it to the list of 80+ Startups Powering The Future Of Farming And Agribusiness CropX EM3 AgriServices#FACagripreneurs http://bit.ly/2kMZeZy
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Congratulations to our Top 50
Congratulations to our Top 50 #agripreneurs that will compete for the title of “The Agripreneur of the Year” at the 3rd FAC Global Championships in #Johannesburg from March 12-15, 2017!
@citycrop Farm Fresh @farmfreshgambia Osma Hassan Ali Tabid Platinum Compost Pty Ltd Agruppa @seedforward Ranch Du Sahel @semilapr @KarawCraftventures Green Path MUHR Natural Products – Wild Garden Project @boldopy @zalivanje @nutrishakeandino Happy Farmer Sadness Secondary Middle School – AquaFarm Ltd. @centreforagro Save Our Agriculture @agrocenta Taqa Solutions @agronsolutions @refilldom @zenvus CSABateke project @em3agri @8villages MetaMeta/Salt Farm Texel @practicalaction @ReelGardening @worldhopeorg Adaptive Symbiotics Technologies My Rain @aQysta Aybar Engineering @ICBAAgriculture Future Water MIT TATA Si Technologies Conservation South Africa @IgnitiaWeather @saltfarmtexel Water Governance Institute Green Heat ICU Jordan ICU Peru Guano Fertilizer Mozambique Real Agricultural Solutions for Africa
Are you among the top 50 agripreneurs in the world?
Are you among the top 50 most innovative #agripreneurs?
Grow your #global #agribusiness network and opportunities at the Future Agro Challenge Global Championships in #southafrica.
Apply by January 13, 2017 here! http://futureagrochallenge.com/the-challenge/apply
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