Agro-Hack Challenge and Technology Summit 2022

The Agro-Hack annual event is set to be a great opportunity to bring together creative minds on location, working side by side in an agro innovation hub to gain knowledge on modern farming techniques, receive financial support, mentorship, compete for a grand prize and most importantly, to create solutions that touch at the very heart of our socio-economic challenges as a nation.

The Agro-Hack Challenge is an exciting, creative and rigorous hands-on, inclusive co-creating program initiated to crowdsource and support brilliant and innovative ideas that can be developed to scalable solutions to the food security and development challenges faced by actors within the agro-industry value chain inclusive of farmers in displaced communities to agri-tech students in research and development within universities, to entrepreneurs, subject matter experts and other persons affected by farming conflict within the region.

BENEFITS

• Provide agricultural value chain players in Benue State, and Nigeria at large, the resources to grow and scale their agri-businesses.
• Entrepreneurship coaching and Mentorship.
• Incubation.
• Startup Idea Validation.
• Access to local and international markets.
• Access to digital tools and infrastructure.
• Grant funding & follow-on investments.

ELIGIBILITY

• AgTech startups, entrepreneurs, innovators and enthusiasts across Nigeria.
• Agriculture based research institutes, university students, especially those studying Agric-related courses.
• Smallholder farmers and agricultural value chain players, conflict affected communities.