Modupe Gbadeyanka
By Dipo Olowookere
Leading tech-driven agriculture innovation company in Nigeria, Farmcrowdy Group, has received the Disruptive Innovation in Agribusiness Award granted by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), in Rome, Italy.
This came barely a month after the nation’s first digital agriculture firm was also recognised at the Next Bulls Awards organized by the Nigerian Stock Exchange and BusinessDay, for its market leadership and potential to list on the exchange in the future.
The latest award from UNIDO identifies businesses and ideas that could lead to social, environmental and economic improvements if implemented in developing countries. It also offers these innovations an opportunity at the international level to highlight and promote new solutions for building and sustaining food security and safety requirements in developing countries.
Commenting, the Group CEO and founder of Farmcrowdy Group, Onyeka Akumah, described both awards as “confirmation of our over two years of consistent hard work, transforming agriculture in Nigeria.”
“We believe this is only the beginning for Farmcrowdy and we are encouraged to do more. Thank you to all the farmers we’ve worked with, stakeholders and my amazing team,” Akumah added.
Farmcrowdy Group has achieved major milestones during 2019, from expansion of the Farmcrowdy platform to restructuring as a group, as well as launching a new subsidiary – Farmgate Africa. The company has also gone on to raise equity funding and secured strategic partnerships with major players in the agricultural value chain.
In the two and a half years since its official launch, Farmcrowdy has continued to empower tens of thousands of rural farmers in Africa and is constantly impacting on collaborative food production and boosting food security.
