From 15 to 21 May 2022, our winners for the 2020 and 2021 Israeli Green Innovation Competition had the pleasure of traveling to Israel for a study tour.  The were part of the 2021 National Best Farmer Agriculture Study tour to Israel organized by our Trade and Economic Mission in collaboration with Agrihouse Foundation. 

This is a fulfillment of their winning package for participating and winning the Israeli Green Innovation Competition in 2020 and 2021.

In Israel, the team visited agricultural institutions and innovation centres such as the Shimon Peres Centre for Peace and Innovation and the Israeli Export Institute, where they had the opportunity to hold several business to business meetings to pitch their startup ideas. 

They also visited organizations such as HomeBiogas, Green 2000, Har-Kor Cold Storage and Packaging House, Migal Research Institute, Afimilk, Netafim, Pears Program among others. 

In 2020, Jeffery Appiagyie from Satyetech won the competition. SAYeTECH is an engineering and agricultural business limited liability company located in Kumasi Ghana. SAYeTECH develops smart agricultural machinery that improves the productivity of under-served smallholder farmer. Their flagship product, the multi-crop thresher reduces the time it takes to thresh an acre of cereal farm using manual labour, from one month to less than 2 hours, relieving women of the drudgery of threshing by beating with sticks while saving precious school going hours from rural children.

Maxwell Kojo Xonu from EbaPreneur Solutions Ghana won the competition in 2021. EBApreneur Solutions Ghana, is a youth-driven, climate action enterprise. It aims to drive implementation of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCS) and SDGs through market approaches by decentralising clean energy and agro-value addition solutions to agro-value chain actors across Ghana. The core of the EBApreneur Solutions business case is that it leverages on Innovative Volunteerism of EBAFOSA by facilitating climate action enterprise actions in an interconnected, complementary way.

Instituted in 2019, the Israeli Green Innovation Competition (IGIC) seek to honor individuals and organizations that come up with innovative solutions that promote environmental conservation and agriculture in Ghana. The initiative is undertaken in collaboration with the Ghana Garden and Flower Movement, an initiative of Strategic Communications Africa Limited (Stratcomm Africa). The IGIC is a combination of the two greatest strengths of Israel: Agriculture and Innovation. 

Israel prides itself as a nation of innovation that helps to stimulate innovation wherever it finds itself.  As such, the Israeli Green Innovation Competition focuses on innovative startups in the agriculture and horticulture sector. This is in line with Israel’s commitment to stimulate both agriculture and innovation in Ghana. In 2019, Mr. Prince Pius Nutsugah from Coologi Ghana won the competition and got a fully paid trip to Israel.