Happy Earth Day! 🌍 🌎 🌏 Our mission is the core of everything we do: To build a healthier society, and a thriving planet, through smarter farming. Tortuga’s robots will help farms be more sustainable and resilient by: - Improving yield and reducing waste during harvest - addressing our massive global food waste problem - Reducing the dependency on fossil-fuel-based chemicals with tools like sterile, sustainable UV-C light treatment and target spraying - Improving food quality, prolonging shelf life, and reducing post-harvest waste with tools like better data collection and forecasting - Improving plant health through better cultivation methods, such as intelligent trimming
All over Kenya, just like in the rest of Africa there is hardly any peasant farmer or land labourer who would answer, “yes”, to the question, “Would you like your children to become farmers?” This is an unfortunate development because almost all 54 African states will for a long time be agrarian economies where majority of the population and a large proportion of national income is derived from agriculture. Given that many of the young people and best brains in Kenya do not want to participate in agriculture it becomes imperative to address two critical issues: 1.As Kenya’s population increases what interventions will address the increased agricultural production required to feed the anticipated large population that needs food and jobs? 2.How can Kenyan youth be encouraged to take up interest in farming and modern agricultural production both for income generation and for national food security? In both instances technology offers a key component of the solutions that are required as part of the suite of interventions that would address these challenges ISTE #ISTELive https://lnkd.in/dSBA5fsN I will be making a Virtual Presentation on Robotics in Agriculture in Kenya Africa through my initiative called the AGRIBOT CHALLENGE.
What is put into African youth, teens and young adults now will help determine the influence Africa will have as a contributor of how the earth is nurtured. #NetworkingNinja
3moCatalyzing a Change in Africa’s Youths Perception About Farming A Pilot Program to Demonstrate Farming is a Cool Career Abstract All over Kenya, just like in the rest of Africa there is hardly any peasant farmer or land labourer who would answer, “yes”, to the question, “Would you like your children to become farmers?” This is an unfortunate development because almost all 54 African states will for a long time be agrarian economies where majority of the population and a large proportion of national income is derived from agriculture. Given that many of the young people and best brains in Kenya do not want to participate in agriculture it becomes imperative to address two critical issues: As Kenya’s population increases what interventions will address the increased agricultural production required to feed the anticipated large population that needs food and jobs? How can Kenyan youth be encouraged to take up interest in farming and modern agricultural production both for income generatin and for national food security? In both instances technology offers a key component of the solutions that are required as part of the suite of interventions that would address these challenges