In second and third place were Kenyan MCHE and Silo Africa, who received $5,000 and $3,000, respectively. Designed to be user-friendly and accessible to farmers with low-end mobile phones, the platform seeks to use USSD to provide farmers with access to information about agricultural products and buyers, offering a variety of features, including multilingual support, personalized capacity building, real-time agronomy support, and collaboration with input sellers and students. Entrepreneur, Mr Yakubu, emerged as the overall winner, receiving the $10,000 grand prize for his solution, Farm Central Intelligence, which seeks to develop an extensive database of agricultural information that can be accessed via a mobile app, WhatsApp chatbot, or a USSD platform. The grand finale, which was held in Lagos, Nigeria, over the weekend, produced three winners.Īfter a 2-day intensive boot camp, six finalists hailing from Kenya and Nigeria pitched their solutions at the grand finale to judges comprising of Jude Dike, Co-Founder of GetEquity Hakeem Onasanya, Head of Startups at The Lagos State Employment Trust Fund Nixon Gecheo, Senior Program Officer of AGRA and Funto Olasemo, VP Financial Markets at AFEX.

This year’s edition drew participation from Kenya, for the first time, following AFEX’s operational expansion into the East African country last year.

Africa’s leading commodities market player hosted its fourth annual ag-hackathon, Code Cash Crop 4.0, aimed at harnessing the intersection of technology, finance, and agriculture to create a platform for young tech enthusiasts to create viable solutions.

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