Tag: Africa

Testimonial: Flavien Kouatcha, Cameroon

AgribusinessTV May 7, 2018 11039 No Comments

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Two years after the launch of Agribusiness TV, we went back to interview the entrepreneurs who were featured. Flavien Kouatcha shares his experience with Agribusiness TV.

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Testimonial: Awa Caba, Senegal

AgribusinessTV April 24, 2018 3767 No Comments

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According to Awa Caba, the CEO of Sooretul, thanks to Agribusiness TV, start-ups are able to expand their network and have partners at national and international levels.

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Testimonial: Alphonse Sie Palm, Burkina Faso

AgribusinessTV April 17, 2018 2897 No Comments

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Alphonse Sie PALM is a pig breeder in Burkina Faso. He tells us about what happened after his video was featured on Agribusiness TV!

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Testimonial: Grâce-Marlène, Benin

AgribusinessTV April 12, 2018 2836 No Comments

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Agribusiness TV will soon celebrate its two years! To learn about the impact of our work, we went back to interview some entrepreneurs who were featured in our videos. Here’s Grâce-Marlène GNINTOUNGBE, from #Benin who kicks off this series!

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Looking back at Pitch AgriHack 2017

AgribusinessTV April 9, 2018 3264 No Comments

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Led by the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA), Pitch AgriHack West Africa 2017 was open for young ICT start-ups from the West African region offering services to the agriculture sector. Winning teams received a cash prizes of up to €15,000 from CTA, as well as other prizes, promotional supp

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Guinea: Coffee of Fouta Djallon

AgribusinessTV April 3, 2018 4389 No Comments

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After University, some youths took over an abandoned coffee plantation. Mamadou Bhoye BAH was still at University when this idea came to him. Along with his friends, they created a cooperative, and ventured into potato production. Later, they grew cowpea, maize, and then they started with coffee. Coffee was an interest

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Cote d’Ivoire: Intelligent field management with drones

AgribusinessTV March 27, 2018 4134 No Comments

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Aboubacar KARIM, an engineer in agricultural economics develops services for an intelligent management of agricultural plots. Aboubacar developed a passion for agriculture since he was in secondary school. This eventually led him to choose studies in agricultural economics in Canada. After his studies and his diploma i

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Burkina Faso: The vegetable producer of Boulmiougou

AgribusinessTV March 20, 2018 4500 No Comments

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Ali, former candidate of illegal migration to Europe, has reconverted to vegetable production in Boulmiougou, a region in the west of Ouagadougou. Ali’s father was into vegetable production, but he did not see it as a job. He wanted to migrate to Europe to have a better life. The idea of migrating came from the Read More

Burkina Faso: Tomato puree that changes lives

AgribusinessTV March 8, 2018 4230 No Comments

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At Donsin, a village situated some 30 km from Ouagadougou, the capital city of Burkina Faso, rural women are on the way to conquer the tomato puree market. The women’s group “Neerwaya” of Donsin exists since the 1990’s. At the time, their main activity was to dry tomato and other leafy vegetables. While it was<

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Cameroon: Conquering the maize value chain

AgribusinessTV February 27, 2018 5162 No Comments

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Loïc KAMWA is a graduate in Business Administration. He produces maize on 30 hectares of land for the local market. Loïc saw that there was a lot of uncultivated land in Cameroon and at the same time, there was a huge potential for maize production. He started cultivating maize on 4 hectares, and was managing Read More