From May 22–23, 2025, at the KNUST Business School in Kumasi, The Kosmos Innovation Center (KIC) in collaboration with the Mastercard Foundation effectively completed the final pitch event of the 2025 AgriTech Challenge Pro. Highlight of the event was a spectacular display of youth-led inventions intended to change Ghana’s agriculture industry using technology, business, and sustainability.
Total participation of 43 youth-led teams was presenting their business ideas to a panel of judges called the Ideation Team. The pitch sessions included creative, market-ready solutions addressing important agricultural and food security issues in Ghana. These included agro-processing techniques, value-added cuisine items, renewable energy applications, and climate-smart agricultural solutions. Judges evaluated the projects on feasibility, creativity, and possible impact, providing comments to improve them.
Every presentation showed great entrepreneurial sense and a drive to address actual agricultural issues including job creation, food system inefficiencies, and youth unemployment. Reflecting Ghana’s bigger attempts to transform its agriculture industry, many teams stressed sustainability and technology as key to their solutions.
Emerging as the ultimate victor, PureLube, which makes cashew shell lubricants, secured $25,000. Another notable business, Ecobroma, got $20,000 for their food invention project.
Recognizing their remarkable ideas, the leading teams got seed funding and admission into KIC’s Business Incubation Program, where they will get mentorship, technical assistance, and access to local and worldwide networks to grow their businesses. KIC Executive Director Benjamin Gyan-Kesse said the event reinforced the “brilliance and resiliency” of Ghana’s youth and underlined how agriculture and innovation are crucial for sustainable economic growth.
Twelve companies in total were each granted ten thousand dollars. These were among:Zenags Organics;Mushplus Agri-Foods;MelDak Agro;AgriEase;Fibrelux;Tomavi Wines;Congam Stainless Charcoal;
Among the nine additional teams that each received $5,000 were:
- Peanut Pride
- Millbles
- BIAQ Golden Cycle
- Soyko Agro Foods
- Growth Line Farm-Tech
- Premium Biofert
- Technologies for Gard Path
- Peli Natural Glow
- MilkyWorld
This year’s AgriTech Challenge Pro confirms the important part young people play in changing food systems as Ghana still sees agriculture as a mainstay of national growth. Fostering creativity, resilience, and business savvy, the project emphasizes the transforming capacity of young entrepreneurs in building a more food-secure and economically active Ghana.
KIC stressed that the AgriTech Challenge Pro is not only a venue for brainstorming but also a regulated route for transforming ideas into viable firms. Strong attention on market research, invention, scalability, and team development equips young entrepreneurs to overcome market and environmental volatility.
