Ken Saro-Wiwa Innovation Hub: Hack Agriculture Hackathon of open farm for the agricultural sector

The Hack Agriculture Hackathon, a competition organised by the Ken Saro-Wiwa Innovation Hub in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria for the achievement of modern innovation in the agricultural sector ended today the 21st of March, 2018. Each team had to pitch their ideas to the open farm platform.

The contest involved eight teams, which had to pitch their ideas of how they can bring creative solutions to the agricultural sector in Nigeria. They were informed that the winning team will be rewarded with N500,000.

The first team 'Team Titan' presented a solution to open farm, which enables farmers to chat with consumers.

The second team 'Team Dragon Glass' added some extra features to the open farm platform, which allows people chat with farmers on the platform. Also they added online payment via integrating Paystack, access to relevant services like veterinary doctors, farmer to farmer chat, uploading pictures of your farm produce, among others.

The third team 'Team ElaTech' went the extra mile by building a hardware for open farm platform called "RealTime Farm Witcher", it gives farmers real time information. Gone are the days of getting information later than expected.

As the presentations were getting interesting, the fourth team 'Team Brynamics' built a multi user platform for open farm and they included features like:

Market Place
Investors Module
Farmers Module
Funding Module
Training Module

The fifth team 'Team SourceCode' built a real time tracker for drivers from farm to customers.

'Team Afridash' the sixth team came out with a very creative idea by building an open farm platform for farmers to apply for funding opportunities, and get real time updates on application status. And also a feature that allows investors search for farmers based on farm produce.

The seventh team 'Team Joklinz' integrated a market place platform for open farm that helps farmers to sell their farm produce and also showcase their details to investors.

'Team Technocrats; which was the final team to present, built a platform for open farm that will easily get farmers connected to investors through their progress report.

The winner of the Hack Agriculture Hackathon oragnized by the Ken Saro-Wiwa Innovation Hub was Team ElaTech, the team that built a hardware for open farm platform called "RealTime Farm Witcher", which gives farmers real time information. So now they have been given N500,000 as their reward for their creativity and smart work.