The Agribusiness Innovation Challenge (AIC) 3.0 culminated in the selection of four outstanding innovators who demonstrated exceptional creativity, scalability, and impact in addressing critical challenges within Nigeria’s agricultural value chain. These winners represent the best of agritech innovation, offering transformative solutions aligned with the program’s thematic areas.
Below are the profiles of the Top 4 Winners highlighting their innovations, thematic focus, and potential impact
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Favrobotics’ Norman Agbot is a battery-powered agricultural robot with a solar charging module for sustained operation. It performs essential farm tasks such as plowing, planting, and harvesting, with a hitching mechanism that allows attachment of multiple implements. Norman offers dual control options: autonomous navigation using depth estimation and landmarks, and manual operation via a joystick. Additionally, a mobile app enables farmers to monitor and manage the robot remotely. Norman empowers farmers with accessible, cost-effective mechanization, enhancing productivity across diverse farming operations.
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Energy Assured supports female smallholder farmers with subscription based rental services of a mobile and comprehensive solar pump, that is cheaper, easy to use, accessible and environmentally friendly with flexible payments option to draw up water for their all year round farming and to replace the use of petrol/diesel engines
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Farm2C by JETFARMSNG is an innovative marketplace connecting biofortified smallholder farmers and processors to global markets. It leverages advanced technologies like traceability to ensure transparency, reduce post-harvest losses, and optimize supply chains. By creating visibility for biofortified food products, it boosts productivity, profitability, sustainability, and resilience across the value chain.
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Let-it-Cold is a startup addressing food storage for marginalised communities lacking reliable electricity. Our mission is to empower these communities by providing sustainable, solar-powered cold rooms to help reduce post harvest loss, enhance food security and promote economic opportunities.
Leading and driving the growth of the Nigerian green economy in both the private and public sectors.