The Agri-hack competition, on the 30th of September, 2013, saw the introduction of four vibrant teams who made it to the final pitching stage of the Agri-hack competition, where they were opportune to present their working ideas to the panel of Judges. However; only one team could win and get the opportunity to represent their start-up and Ethiopia in this year’s ICT4Ag Competition on the 4th – 8th of November in Kigali, Rwanda.

The local competition is organized by iceaddis together with CTA & m:lab East Africa.

Teams represented included;

1. AGRI INFO SYSTEM – a start-up firm that believes in the bidirectional information exchange between farmers and extensions workers to create a difference in the Agricultural sector.

2. AGRI SOLUTION – a start-up firm that provides farmers with reachable access to information like price, emerging markets, available products and so on.

3.   mAGRIC – a start-up that believes information is power and a viable resource for farmers via transiting these information by in-cooperating the local community & extension workers to the local farmers through various means.

4.   DIBSR – a start-up that deals with the preparation and sales / marketing support for farmers.

As it was publicly announced the criteria for winning the competition was clear “problem identification; feasibility / viability of concept; potential development impact; marketing strategy; sustainability plan, user experience; Q/A’s amongst others…”

After hours of critical assessment by the Judges, team mAgric (which was represented by Mr Nebiyou and Dr. Abeselom) were pronounced winners.

In second place came DIBSR with a narrow gap away from Agri Vas; Agri Solution and Agri Info Systemcame in third and fourth position respectively.

The mAgric will therefore represent their firm and Ethiopia at large agri-hack championship in Kigali come on 4th of November.

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(Original article published here http://www.iceaddis.com/2013/10/22/hacking-agriculture/ – Original title : Hacking Agriculture)