Releaf Partners With IITA To Improve Growth And Sustainability In Oil Palm Production
Releaf, an AgriTech startup that develops proprietary hardware and software solutions that make African farmers and food factories more efficient and profitable, has partnered with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture to improve growth and sustainability in oil palm production in Nigeria and across Africa. The partnership will enable the startup and the award-winning research-for-development organisation […]
$100,000 In Startup Funding Available In The Thrive VIII Accelerator Program 2022
If you’re an AgriTech startup and you’re looking for funding and opportunities to scale, here’s a chance you can take advantage of. Read more about Opportunities The Thrive Accelerator is inviting AgriTech startups from across the world to apply for its virtual and in-person accelerator program. The program will provide participating startups with investment, […]
Releaf Secures $4.2 million In Seed Funding And Grants To Drive The Industrialisation Of Food Processing In Africa
The new funding will support the development and scaling of technology solutions for Nigeria’s Oil Palm sector Releaf, an AgriTech start-up that develops proprietary hardware and software solutions that make African farmers and food factories more efficient and profitable, has raised $2.7 million seed funding in a round led by Samurai Incubate Africa, Future Africa […]
Anthony Owei Is Enabling Nigerians To Earn From Poultry Farming, Wherever They Are
When we think of farming, we often picture people in worn-out garbs surrounded by greenery. They may be bent over and striking the ground with hoes, or plucking fruits or cobs and dropping them into the baskets they’re carrying. Read more about Business Or they could be in a pen, tending to hundreds of […]
2019 CN’s Top 100 Emerging SMEs: ePoultry
In the past few years, there’s been a proliferation of crowdfunded AgriTech investment businesses in Nigeria. These companies are providing digital platforms that allow individuals to invest in agriculture. This helps farmers with the funding they need to scale; it also yields profits for the people who invest in the farms. Read more about […]
The Federal Ministry Of Science And Technology
The Ministry of Science and Technology is the government civil service arm primarily in charge of fostering government policy on science and technology in the bid to drive socio-economic national growth. It is one of Nigeria’s 42 ministerial portfolios as presently constituted. It is headed by Ogbonnaya Onu of Ebonyi State who has been […]
Artificial Intelligence Helping African Farmers In The Fight Against Locusts
Kuzi is a free early warning tool, delivered by SMS, that helps farmers across Africa to predict and control locust attacks. Kuzi uses satellite data, soil sensor data, ground meteorological observation, and machine learning to predict the breeding, occurrence, and migration routes of desert locusts. Farmers and pastoralists receive free SMS alerts 2-3 months […]
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Audiomack Opens office in Nigeria Freemium streaming giant has opened its 55thinternational office in Lagos, Nigeria. The service has seen massive growth as it has inadvertently found a huge audience with Afrobeats audience and content creators because of its freemium model that has allowed both free and premium content delivered to its teeming African […]
Agritech Focus: All About Transfurd Farms
Not everyone who wants to own a farm is able to work the ground and grow crops. Even when they have the funds to set up and operate one, they may be too preoccupied with other concerns to be actively involved on the field. Transfurd Farms exists to help such people obtain plots of land, […]
Agritech focus: All About Hello Tractor
The world continues to apply its very latest technologies to agriculture, to lift production efficiencies in the sector to heights good enough to cater for tomorrow’s challenges. Whether it’s digital technology or blockchain, AI or robotics, there’s always some new tech being dropped into the crop growing sphere to make them yield more products for […]
Agritech Focus: All About Growsel
Of the $397 billion income generated by Nigeria in 2018, almost a quarter came from its farmlands. Over the course of the year, millions of strong-willed, tough-skinned people cultivated crops and reared livestock in wildly varying conditions, and contributed their lot to the country’s economy. But the vast majority of these farmers are poor small-holder […]
Agritech Focus: All About Farm Cafe
For many of us, farms are the last front on which we’re able to have prolonged contact with nature; even if it’s only a remodeled version of nature, fashioned to fill our bellies and clothe our bodies. It has been this way for a long, long while. But over time, it has become more shaped […]
Five Nigerian Startups Made It to Y Combinator’s 2019 Accelerator Program
Y Combinator, a US-based startup accelerator of global renown, has announced that a record number of startups from across the world are taking part in its bi-annual program. And of the more than 200 tech-driven ventures which made it to the program’s winter batch this year, five are Nigerian. Since its founding in 2005, Y […]
Farmcrowdy Closes on Additional Seed Funding of $1 Million
Farmcrowdy, Nigeria’s first and leading digital agriculture platform which allows Nigerians to invest in agriculture, today announced that it has closed on additional seed funding of $1 million. This follows on from the company’s initial investments of $1 million in 2017. International investors Cox Enterprisesand Techstars, along with local investor Ajayi Solutions have participated in the round […]
Nigerian Startups Raised $178 Million from Investors in 2018
Nigerian startups continue to attract interest from investors, who are now staking more on them than at any other time in the short history of the country’s relatively young ecosystem. That’s what we can surmise from the Nigeria Startup Funding Report 2018, just recently put out by Techpoint Africa. The report indicates that a total […]
Did You Know? Nigeria Is Africa’s Biggest Agritech Market
Nigeria hasn’t been on the global agritech scene for long. Until a few years ago, you could probably count the number of tech startups in the country’s agriculture sector on the fingers of one hand. Ecommerce and fintech took the headlines and got a fat portion of investment money. Agritech was only a small part […]