Cellulant Corporation, a pan-African technology company has empowered Africa’s agriculture sector with the hosting of its Inaugural Partners Summit in Lagos, Nigeria. It has assured to leverage on technology to help block inefficiency and wastages in Africa's Agric value chain courtesy of its improved payment and marketplace solutions, Tingg and Agrikore.
FedEx Express India vice president for Operations Mohamad Sayegh said that small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are the growth engine of the Indian economy and it is important to connect them with the new solutions and possibilities.https://www.itln.in/smes-are-the-growth-engine-of-our-economy-and-employment-fedex-india-supply-chain
The Rwandan Government has formally launched the new African Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Cooling and Cold Chain (ACES) that is hosted in-country by the University of Rwanda.
At the inception meeting, a high-level cross-department team was established to lead the Centre’s development.In collaboration with the core technical partners - the University of Birmingham and UN Environment Programme’s United for Efficiency (UNEP U4E) - progress in setting up the centre has quickened with the official endorsement of planned activities.
ACES will help get farmers’ produce to market quickly and efficiently - reducing food waste, boosting profits and creating jobs as well as look to improve cold-chains for vaccines and health, now recognised globally as a key challenge for Covid-19 immunisation.
Fruit supplychain blockchain : Every one of us should be happy for the green revolution happening around the world.
However with the growing food trade, the fruits supplychain face many challenges and food security problems daily.
Moreover, this results in low trade in the fruit supplychain.
With the low infrastructure, underdeveloped storage and transportation facilities the agriculture often reaches low productivity.
Example, incidents of fruits sprayed or coated with pesticides to save them from the insects that spoil them.
But these artificial chemical cause a great impact on the heath of the people when consumed.