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5 million Heifer International AYuTe Africa Challenge.
Nnaemeka Ikegwuonu, Founder and CEO of ColdHubs, a Nigerian business that provides solar-powered, walk-in coolers for smallholder vegetable farmers, and Jehiel Oliver, Founder and CEO of Hello Tractor, a Kenyan company that has become known across Africa as the “Uber of tractors,” were selected on Wednesday as the winners of the challenge.
The winners, known as the 2021 AYuTe Africa Champions and chosen from an impressive field of young agritech innovators from across the continent, were announced on Wednesday at the 2021 African Green Revolution Forum Summit.
This was contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Nairobi, Kenya by Heifer International and copied to the Ghana News Agency.
The statement quoted Adesuwa Ifedi, Senior Vice President of Africa Programmes at Heifer International as saying, “Across Africa today, young, creative professionals are deploying tech innovations that are reimagining farming and food production”.
He added that “We want to do our part to help companies like Hello Tractor and ColdHubs as they provide Africa’s smallholder...