The IREN TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATIONS PLATFORM 2020
The Inter Region Economic Network (IREN) will this year organize the IREN Technologies and Innovations Platform 2020 Edition (ITIP 2020)
The ITIP 2020 program seeks to promote awareness and adaptation of Smart Sustainable Solutions for Agribusiness (Farm & Firm) with a particular focus of optimizing five crucial areas. These areas are:
- Finance: Technology and smart solutions that address the challenge of cash flow among Small Holder Farmers in the Lake Region Economic Bloc
- Security: Technology and Smart solutions that address the challenge of petty theft that curtails productivity in crop and animal husbandry
- Labor Enhancing: Technology and smart solutions that address the challenge of the use of rudimentary (back-breaking processes) in production and value addition processes
- Markets: Technology and Smart solutions that connect major market centres in the Lake Region Economic Bloc to facilitate an efficient market system
- Big Data: Technology and smart solutions that enable players in the agribusiness value chain to leverage big data/information
Objectives of ITIP 2020
- To identify smart sustainable solutions that can contribute to improving commercialization and diversification in the agribusiness sector
- To offer youth a platform to showcase smart sustainable solutions for agribusiness that address challenges across the agricultural value chains
- To optimize agri-processes by promoting the best mix of innovation and technology to business processes along the agribusiness value chain
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