Ulaanbaatar
Digital agriculture product awarded ‘Best innovative product and service’
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Ulaanbaatar/MONTSAME/. Nomads Agritek Innovations LLC's ‘Agrolli’ smartphone application was selected as the ‘Best Innovative Product and Service’ during the Innovation Week 2021, which is the second start-up that received their award as a result of being part of virtual event in May 2021.
The
Mongolian Agrolli team introduced their app among other 200 innovative products
and services, 12 projects and programs, 121 startup companies and
organizations. On August 18, they received their price including a voucher to
attend the ‘Accelerator Program’ by the ‘Startup Mongolia LLC’ worth of MNT 5
million, consulting service voucher worth of MNT 4 million and MNT 3 million procurement
voucher to buy equipment to improve their product from Business Hub, supported
by the ‘Promotion of Growth and Employment in the Private Sector (PROGRES)’
project.
The Agrolli app is a digital product designed to help local
small farmers to monitor weather conditions, get regular crop-related
information, market their products and improve their financial situation. The
farmer can enter their farmland history, track the vegetables the farmer grows
and sells, get information about various vegetables and fruits from the app. It
will support farmers to build trust and inform consumers about their products’
quality. The Agrolli app first pilot was launched in April 2020 in New York by
young people from India, Brazil, Mongolia and Taiwan and received recognition
by IBM's Tech for Challenge’s ‘Call for Code 2020’.
The PROGRES project sponsored the vouchers. The goal of the
project is to foster employment generating growth of micro, small and
medium-sized enterprises and start-ups in Mongolia. The project is jointly
implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für International Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and
National Development Agency and commissioned by German Federal Ministry for
Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Source: GIZ Mongolei
