Kenyan, Nigerian firms secure Sh165m grant to boost farming

A Hello Tractor engineer, installs an application on a John Deere 5503 tractor, using the Hello Tractor technology that connects farmers with vehicles' owners, at a hay farm in Umande village in Nanyuki, Kenya February 4, 2020. [Reuters, Njeri Mwangi]

A Kenyan and Nigerian firm have won a Sh165 million ($1.5 million) grant to fund expansion plans for providing services to smallholder farmers.

Heifer International picked Hello Tractor, a Kenyan firm, and Nigeria’s ColdHubs as winners of the inaugural Agriculture, Youth and Technology (AYuTe) Africa Challenge.