A total of twenty trainees under ten different teams have been participants of the training. The ten teams have been working on finding entrepreneur solutions to different agricultural challenges such as agro-value addition businesses, post harvest handling, digital applications in agriculture, climate smart Back Yard gardening, poultry brooder systems, and soil management systems.
Above: Students of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, Bachelor of Science in Agriculture and Livelihoods explaining to the judges their innovative minimum viable product
Five of the participating teams have been chosen as winners of the entrepreneurship start-ups to stimulate their products and scale them further. The five winners are;Â Smart Kuku Brooder, Harvest to glass, Organic Rabbit Urine fertilizer, Valued Addition of mushrooms and fruit and vegetable powder.
Above: Judges identifying the agri-entrepreneurship challenge winners
Above: Dr. Obungoloch handing over a certificate to Mr. Rashid Muhoozi
This training and start-up support is courtesy of the MUST UNESCO China Funds in Trust (CFIT) project Phase III under the Centre for Innovations and Technology Transf
Succeed we MUST!