Desert Green Africa Is A Start-Up Aimed AT Providing Mobile Tech Solutions For Small Scale Farmers
Desert Green Africa Is A Start-Up Aimed AT Providing Mobile Tech Solutions For Small Scale Farmers. Desert Green Africa was co-founded in 2015, formally registered in 2016, by 3 young entrepreneurs from different walks of life with 3 things in common: a rural upbringing, a passion for Agri-tech & a near-impossible vision for a self-sustaining connected Africa. It has collaborated in the SAB Ltd. Nelson Mandela Day’s corporate Social Responsibility program to equip rural dwellers in Bushbuckridge Mpumalanga to start micro-farms using unutilised backyard plots in 2017.
The company was the first place winner of the 2018 South African Global Student Entrepreneurship Awards (GSEA-SA) competition. It has represented South Africa at the GSEA finals in Canada. Desert Green Africa finished in the top 6 award-winning finalists out of 56 Global candidates. It was also honoured with the Sergey Vhykodtsev award for being a resilient business that used its obstacles to grow. The company is an Agritech start-up founded on the core-mission of tackling food insecurity challenges in the informal agri-value chain in Africa.
Desert Green Africa builds mobile tech solutions to improve productivity; profits & livelihoods for Africa small-scale farmers & Informal traders while bringing youth back to farming. It helps accelerate the sustainable production of crops and assist first-time, small-scale and established farmers to improve their production efficiency. The company provides a market space for both the informal trader and small-scale farmers who needs a market for their produce.
The company was co-founded by Tumelo Chiloane who also serves as the company’s CEO. He is a South African born Social Afropreneur with a passion for technology and a vision for an Africa United. He is also a trained & practiced professional Industrial Engineer graduating B.Tech Degree at the Tshwane University of Technology. It was also co-founded by Akani Mbetse who also serves as the company’s COO. Mbetse is a South African born FERTASA accredited Soil Scientist, with a passion for food & sciences. It was also co-founded by Randy Kumasamba who also serves as the CPO of the company. Kumasamba is a DRC born Agronomist & soil scientist, with a passion for crop biophysics. He graduated B.sc in Applied plant production & soil sciences from the University of Pretoria.
