Come learn how to venture into agriculture on a large scale, scale up your startup in agriculture & explore opportunities that agriculture presents for entrepreneurs and innovators in technology from Fahad Awadh, the founder of YYTZ Agro-Processing, a cashew processing company.
Fahad will share his insights on the challenges he faced, constraints, the role of education and the need of role models for young people. He will provide actionable items that can be used to enhance youth economic participation and entrepreneurship in Africa.
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Fahad Awadh is the founder of YYTZ Agro-Processing, a cashew processing company. YYTZ Agro has been working with rural cashew farmers in the Mtwara and Singida region to help them add value to their own crop and earn more income.YYTZ recently won $500,000 from AGRA’s Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund competition.
Fahad is a young entrepreneur from Tanzania. He is the founder of YYTZ Agro-Processing, a cashew processing company. YYTZ Agro has been working with rural cashew farmers in the Mtwara and Singida region to help them add value to their own crop and earn more income.
YYTZ’s flagship facility is located in Zanzibar, with a processing capacity of 2,500MT per annum. YYTZ recently won $500,000 from AGRA’s Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund competition. They are building a Cashew Farmer Processing Centre in Mtwara. The facility will have modern equipment and adequate storage facilities for farmers to use. Farmers are assured of a market, as YYTZ are the sole off-takers.
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