The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded project on Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is paving the way for rice transformation in sub-Saharan Africa by promoting locally-adapted high-yielding hybrid rice varieties developed by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice).

As part of its approach to catalyze agribusiness and entrepreneurship development in the rice value chain with the active involvement of seed enterprises, the TAAT Rice Compact facilitated the large-scale demonstration of ISRIZ-9 seed production at a Field Day organized by AfricaRice and ISRA at the AfricaRice regional station in Saint Louis, Senegal, on 6 August 2019.

In addition to participants from ISRA, AfricaRice and RRTC, the Field Day was attended by representatives from the following sectors, among others:

•Agribusiness, seed enterprises and associations from Senegal, Mauritania and Mali (CNT, CASL, SEDAB, FASO-KABA, FEPRODES, GIE AGRITECH, GIE DYNN, UNIS, SRIA, KORKA RICE);

•Donor community (USAID, Syngenta Foundation);

•Research, development and extension organizations and university from Senegal and Mauritania (DRDR, SODAGRI, SAED, UGB, CNRADA, SONADER);

•Rice farmers and seed producers from Senegal; and

•National and local media agencies

Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice

The third edition of the Social Good Summit Geneva, concluded at the Credit Suisse Forum in Geneva, brought together 24 best-in-class emerging-markets entrepreneurs pitching scale-ready products and services to impact investors, addressing 12 out of 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals. This year’s Summit, created by UNDP Geneva, and held alongside the World Investment Forum, featured pitches on Access to Health and Education, Responsible Consumption and Production, Agritech and Fintech.

© Antoine Tardy/UNDP

The third edition of the Social Good Summit Geneva, concluded at the Credit Suisse Forum in Geneva, brought together 24 best-in-class emerging-markets entrepreneurs pitching scale-ready products and services to impact investors, addressing 12 out of 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals. This year’s Summit, created by UNDP Geneva, and held alongside the World Investment Forum, featured pitches on Access to Health and Education, Responsible Consumption and Production, Agritech and Fintech.

© Antoine Tardy/UNDP

The UK and India co-hosted FutureTech Festival (FTF) 11-12 December 2018. FTF brought together more than 200 companies and 1000 delegates across two days, featuring world-leading Indian and UK Tech companies, along with scientists, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Satellite events took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai where companies from various sectors like agritech, createch, healthcare & life sciences and tech & smart cities participated. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

The UK and India co-hosted FutureTech Festival (FTF) 11-12 December 2018. FTF brought together more than 200 companies and 1000 delegates across two days, featuring world-leading Indian and UK Tech companies, along with scientists, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Satellite events took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai where companies from various sectors like agritech, createch, healthcare & life sciences and tech & smart cities participated. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

The UK and India co-hosted FutureTech Festival (FTF) 11-12 December 2018. FTF brought together more than 200 companies and 1000 delegates across two days, featuring world-leading Indian and UK Tech companies, along with scientists, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Satellite events took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai where companies from various sectors like agritech, createch, healthcare & life sciences and tech & smart cities participated. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

Photo by Jaime Cummings, NYSIPM

Department for International Trade India led a livestock business delegation to showcase the best of British agri-tech in the piggery sector in Guwahati, Wednesday 29 November 2017. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded project on Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is paving the way for rice transformation in sub-Saharan Africa by promoting locally-adapted high-yielding hybrid rice varieties developed by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice).

As part of its approach to catalyze agribusiness and entrepreneurship development in the rice value chain with the active involvement of seed enterprises, the TAAT Rice Compact facilitated the large-scale demonstration of ISRIZ-9 seed production at a Field Day organized by AfricaRice and ISRA at the AfricaRice regional station in Saint Louis, Senegal, on 6 August 2019.

In addition to participants from ISRA, AfricaRice and RRTC, the Field Day was attended by representatives from the following sectors, among others:

•Agribusiness, seed enterprises and associations from Senegal, Mauritania and Mali (CNT, CASL, SEDAB, FASO-KABA, FEPRODES, GIE AGRITECH, GIE DYNN, UNIS, SRIA, KORKA RICE);

•Donor community (USAID, Syngenta Foundation);

•Research, development and extension organizations and university from Senegal and Mauritania (DRDR, SODAGRI, SAED, UGB, CNRADA, SONADER);

•Rice farmers and seed producers from Senegal; and

•National and local media agencies

Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice

The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded project on Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is paving the way for rice transformation in sub-Saharan Africa by promoting locally-adapted high-yielding hybrid rice varieties developed by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice).

As part of its approach to catalyze agribusiness and entrepreneurship development in the rice value chain with the active involvement of seed enterprises, the TAAT Rice Compact facilitated the large-scale demonstration of ISRIZ-9 seed production at a Field Day organized by AfricaRice and ISRA at the AfricaRice regional station in Saint Louis, Senegal, on 6 August 2019.

In addition to participants from ISRA, AfricaRice and RRTC, the Field Day was attended by representatives from the following sectors, among others:

•Agribusiness, seed enterprises and associations from Senegal, Mauritania and Mali (CNT, CASL, SEDAB, FASO-KABA, FEPRODES, GIE AGRITECH, GIE DYNN, UNIS, SRIA, KORKA RICE);

•Donor community (USAID, Syngenta Foundation);

•Research, development and extension organizations and university from Senegal and Mauritania (DRDR, SODAGRI, SAED, UGB, CNRADA, SONADER);

•Rice farmers and seed producers from Senegal; and

•National and local media agencies

Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice

The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded project on Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is paving the way for rice transformation in sub-Saharan Africa by promoting locally-adapted high-yielding hybrid rice varieties developed by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice).

As part of its approach to catalyze agribusiness and entrepreneurship development in the rice value chain with the active involvement of seed enterprises, the TAAT Rice Compact facilitated the large-scale demonstration of ISRIZ-9 seed production at a Field Day organized by AfricaRice and ISRA at the AfricaRice regional station in Saint Louis, Senegal, on 6 August 2019.

In addition to participants from ISRA, AfricaRice and RRTC, the Field Day was attended by representatives from the following sectors, among others:

•Agribusiness, seed enterprises and associations from Senegal, Mauritania and Mali (CNT, CASL, SEDAB, FASO-KABA, FEPRODES, GIE AGRITECH, GIE DYNN, UNIS, SRIA, KORKA RICE);

•Donor community (USAID, Syngenta Foundation);

•Research, development and extension organizations and university from Senegal and Mauritania (DRDR, SODAGRI, SAED, UGB, CNRADA, SONADER);

•Rice farmers and seed producers from Senegal; and

•National and local media agencies

Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice

The third edition of the Social Good Summit Geneva, concluded at the Credit Suisse Forum in Geneva, brought together 24 best-in-class emerging-markets entrepreneurs pitching scale-ready products and services to impact investors, addressing 12 out of 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals. This year’s Summit, created by UNDP Geneva, and held alongside the World Investment Forum, featured pitches on Access to Health and Education, Responsible Consumption and Production, Agritech and Fintech.

© Antoine Tardy/UNDP

The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded project on Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is paving the way for rice transformation in sub-Saharan Africa by promoting locally-adapted high-yielding hybrid rice varieties developed by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice).

As part of its approach to catalyze agribusiness and entrepreneurship development in the rice value chain with the active involvement of seed enterprises, the TAAT Rice Compact facilitated the large-scale demonstration of ISRIZ-9 seed production at a Field Day organized by AfricaRice and ISRA at the AfricaRice regional station in Saint Louis, Senegal, on 6 August 2019.

In addition to participants from ISRA, AfricaRice and RRTC, the Field Day was attended by representatives from the following sectors, among others:

•Agribusiness, seed enterprises and associations from Senegal, Mauritania and Mali (CNT, CASL, SEDAB, FASO-KABA, FEPRODES, GIE AGRITECH, GIE DYNN, UNIS, SRIA, KORKA RICE);

•Donor community (USAID, Syngenta Foundation);

•Research, development and extension organizations and university from Senegal and Mauritania (DRDR, SODAGRI, SAED, UGB, CNRADA, SONADER);

•Rice farmers and seed producers from Senegal; and

•National and local media agencies

Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice

The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded project on Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is paving the way for rice transformation in sub-Saharan Africa by promoting locally-adapted high-yielding hybrid rice varieties developed by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice).

As part of its approach to catalyze agribusiness and entrepreneurship development in the rice value chain with the active involvement of seed enterprises, the TAAT Rice Compact facilitated the large-scale demonstration of ISRIZ-9 seed production at a Field Day organized by AfricaRice and ISRA at the AfricaRice regional station in Saint Louis, Senegal, on 6 August 2019.

In addition to participants from ISRA, AfricaRice and RRTC, the Field Day was attended by representatives from the following sectors, among others:

•Agribusiness, seed enterprises and associations from Senegal, Mauritania and Mali (CNT, CASL, SEDAB, FASO-KABA, FEPRODES, GIE AGRITECH, GIE DYNN, UNIS, SRIA, KORKA RICE);

•Donor community (USAID, Syngenta Foundation);

•Research, development and extension organizations and university from Senegal and Mauritania (DRDR, SODAGRI, SAED, UGB, CNRADA, SONADER);

•Rice farmers and seed producers from Senegal; and

•National and local media agencies

Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice

The third edition of the Social Good Summit Geneva, concluded at the Credit Suisse Forum in Geneva, brought together 24 best-in-class emerging-markets entrepreneurs pitching scale-ready products and services to impact investors, addressing 12 out of 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals. This year’s Summit, created by UNDP Geneva, and held alongside the World Investment Forum, featured pitches on Access to Health and Education, Responsible Consumption and Production, Agritech and Fintech.

© Antoine Tardy/UNDP

The UK and India co-hosted FutureTech Festival (FTF) 11-12 December 2018. FTF brought together more than 200 companies and 1000 delegates across two days, featuring world-leading Indian and UK Tech companies, along with scientists, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Satellite events took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai where companies from various sectors like agritech, createch, healthcare & life sciences and tech & smart cities participated. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded project on Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is paving the way for rice transformation in sub-Saharan Africa by promoting locally-adapted high-yielding hybrid rice varieties developed by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice).

As part of its approach to catalyze agribusiness and entrepreneurship development in the rice value chain with the active involvement of seed enterprises, the TAAT Rice Compact facilitated the large-scale demonstration of ISRIZ-9 seed production at a Field Day organized by AfricaRice and ISRA at the AfricaRice regional station in Saint Louis, Senegal, on 6 August 2019.

In addition to participants from ISRA, AfricaRice and RRTC, the Field Day was attended by representatives from the following sectors, among others:

•Agribusiness, seed enterprises and associations from Senegal, Mauritania and Mali (CNT, CASL, SEDAB, FASO-KABA, FEPRODES, GIE AGRITECH, GIE DYNN, UNIS, SRIA, KORKA RICE);

•Donor community (USAID, Syngenta Foundation);

•Research, development and extension organizations and university from Senegal and Mauritania (DRDR, SODAGRI, SAED, UGB, CNRADA, SONADER);

•Rice farmers and seed producers from Senegal; and

•National and local media agencies

Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice

The panel Discussion on agritech was held on 8 November.

The session was held as part of the India-UK TECH Summit in New Delhi, 7-9 November 2016. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

The UK and India co-hosted FutureTech Festival (FTF) 11-12 December 2018. FTF brought together more than 200 companies and 1000 delegates across two days, featuring world-leading Indian and UK Tech companies, along with scientists, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Satellite events took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai where companies from various sectors like agritech, createch, healthcare & life sciences and tech & smart cities participated. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

The UK and India co-hosted FutureTech Festival (FTF) 11-12 December 2018. FTF brought together more than 200 companies and 1000 delegates across two days, featuring world-leading Indian and UK Tech companies, along with scientists, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Satellite events took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai where companies from various sectors like agritech, createch, healthcare & life sciences and tech & smart cities participated. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

Photo by Jaime Cummings, NYSIPM

The New Zealand Agribusiness Investment Showcase is designed to help innovative New Zealand agritech companies to make the right capital connections to fast track their international growth, and to raise the profile of New Zealand's dynamic agritech sector.

The UK and India co-hosted FutureTech Festival (FTF) 11-12 December 2018. FTF brought together more than 200 companies and 1000 delegates across two days, featuring world-leading Indian and UK Tech companies, along with scientists, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Satellite events took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai where companies from various sectors like agritech, createch, healthcare & life sciences and tech & smart cities participated. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

The third edition of the Social Good Summit Geneva, concluded at the Credit Suisse Forum in Geneva, brought together 24 best-in-class emerging-markets entrepreneurs pitching scale-ready products and services to impact investors, addressing 12 out of 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals. This year’s Summit, created by UNDP Geneva, and held alongside the World Investment Forum, featured pitches on Access to Health and Education, Responsible Consumption and Production, Agritech and Fintech.

© Antoine Tardy/UNDP

The third edition of the Social Good Summit Geneva, concluded at the Credit Suisse Forum in Geneva, brought together 24 best-in-class emerging-markets entrepreneurs pitching scale-ready products and services to impact investors, addressing 12 out of 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals. This year’s Summit, created by UNDP Geneva, and held alongside the World Investment Forum, featured pitches on Access to Health and Education, Responsible Consumption and Production, Agritech and Fintech.

© Antoine Tardy/UNDP

The UK and India co-hosted FutureTech Festival (FTF) 11-12 December 2018. FTF brought together more than 200 companies and 1000 delegates across two days, featuring world-leading Indian and UK Tech companies, along with scientists, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Satellite events took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai where companies from various sectors like agritech, createch, healthcare & life sciences and tech & smart cities participated. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

The UK and India co-hosted FutureTech Festival (FTF) 11-12 December 2018. FTF brought together more than 200 companies and 1000 delegates across two days, featuring world-leading Indian and UK Tech companies, along with scientists, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Satellite events took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai where companies from various sectors like agritech, createch, healthcare & life sciences and tech & smart cities participated. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

The UK and India co-hosted FutureTech Festival (FTF) 11-12 December 2018. FTF brought together more than 200 companies and 1000 delegates across two days, featuring world-leading Indian and UK Tech companies, along with scientists, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Satellite events took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai where companies from various sectors like agritech, createch, healthcare & life sciences and tech & smart cities participated. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded project on Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is paving the way for rice transformation in sub-Saharan Africa by promoting locally-adapted high-yielding hybrid rice varieties developed by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice).

As part of its approach to catalyze agribusiness and entrepreneurship development in the rice value chain with the active involvement of seed enterprises, the TAAT Rice Compact facilitated the large-scale demonstration of ISRIZ-9 seed production at a Field Day organized by AfricaRice and ISRA at the AfricaRice regional station in Saint Louis, Senegal, on 6 August 2019.

In addition to participants from ISRA, AfricaRice and RRTC, the Field Day was attended by representatives from the following sectors, among others:

•Agribusiness, seed enterprises and associations from Senegal, Mauritania and Mali (CNT, CASL, SEDAB, FASO-KABA, FEPRODES, GIE AGRITECH, GIE DYNN, UNIS, SRIA, KORKA RICE);

•Donor community (USAID, Syngenta Foundation);

•Research, development and extension organizations and university from Senegal and Mauritania (DRDR, SODAGRI, SAED, UGB, CNRADA, SONADER);

•Rice farmers and seed producers from Senegal; and

•National and local media agencies

Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice

The UK and India co-hosted FutureTech Festival (FTF) 11-12 December 2018. FTF brought together more than 200 companies and 1000 delegates across two days, featuring world-leading Indian and UK Tech companies, along with scientists, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Satellite events took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai where companies from various sectors like agritech, createch, healthcare & life sciences and tech & smart cities participated. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

The UK and India co-hosted FutureTech Festival (FTF) 11-12 December 2018. FTF brought together more than 200 companies and 1000 delegates across two days, featuring world-leading Indian and UK Tech companies, along with scientists, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Satellite events took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai where companies from various sectors like agritech, createch, healthcare & life sciences and tech & smart cities participated. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

Vansun is the first Indian company to bring and promote the concept of machine milking in india both for small and large dairy farms. Visit our website www.vansuntechnologies.com, for more information.

Photo by Jaime Cummings, NYSIPM

The Rice Compact of the African Development Bank-funded project on Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is paving the way for rice transformation in sub-Saharan Africa by promoting locally-adapted high-yielding hybrid rice varieties developed by the Africa Rice Center (AfricaRice).

As part of its approach to catalyze agribusiness and entrepreneurship development in the rice value chain with the active involvement of seed enterprises, the TAAT Rice Compact facilitated the large-scale demonstration of ISRIZ-9 seed production at a Field Day organized by AfricaRice and ISRA at the AfricaRice regional station in Saint Louis, Senegal, on 6 August 2019.

In addition to participants from ISRA, AfricaRice and RRTC, the Field Day was attended by representatives from the following sectors, among others:

•Agribusiness, seed enterprises and associations from Senegal, Mauritania and Mali (CNT, CASL, SEDAB, FASO-KABA, FEPRODES, GIE AGRITECH, GIE DYNN, UNIS, SRIA, KORKA RICE);

•Donor community (USAID, Syngenta Foundation);

•Research, development and extension organizations and university from Senegal and Mauritania (DRDR, SODAGRI, SAED, UGB, CNRADA, SONADER);

•Rice farmers and seed producers from Senegal; and

•National and local media agencies

Photo : R.Raman, AfricaRice

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The UK and India co-hosted FutureTech Festival (FTF) 11-12 December 2018. FTF brought together more than 200 companies and 1000 delegates across two days, featuring world-leading Indian and UK Tech companies, along with scientists, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Satellite events took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai where companies from various sectors like agritech, createch, healthcare & life sciences and tech & smart cities participated. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

The UK and India co-hosted FutureTech Festival (FTF) 11-12 December 2018. FTF brought together more than 200 companies and 1000 delegates across two days, featuring world-leading Indian and UK Tech companies, along with scientists, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Satellite events took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai where companies from various sectors like agritech, createch, healthcare & life sciences and tech & smart cities participated. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia

The UK and India co-hosted FutureTech Festival (FTF) 11-12 December 2018. FTF brought together more than 200 companies and 1000 delegates across two days, featuring world-leading Indian and UK Tech companies, along with scientists, policy-makers and entrepreneurs. Satellite events took place in Bengaluru and Mumbai where companies from various sectors like agritech, createch, healthcare & life sciences and tech & smart cities participated. Follow us on Twitter @UKinIndia