Dar es Salaam, Feb. 3 -- TANZANIAN youth-led agritech startups have emerged winners of the AYuTe Africa Challenge Tanzania Cohort II, the initiative that attracted over 260 applications nationwide.

Heifer International Tanzania Country Director, Mark Tsoxo, said this years winners, whose innovations range from post-harvest loss solutions and pest management to cost-effective animal feed production and drone technology for soil analysis and fumigation, will collectively receive 22,500 US dollars in grant funding.

“The AYuTe Africa Challenge serves as a catalyst for scaling high-potential agritech startups, empowering young African entrepreneurs who are harnessing innovation and technology to transform smallholder farming across the...