The numbers are staggering when it comes to agriculture in Ghana: the sector represents more than 50 percent of the country’s GDP, accounts for over 40 percent of export earnings, and meets over 90 percent of Ghanaian food needs1.
It’s these statistics that led to the idea for the Kosmos Innovation Center—an idea that came full-circle last week with the opening of a new incubator space for burgeoning business graduates of the KIC’s Agritech Challenge, a competition that provides training, mentorship, and three separate rounds of pitch competition to secure seed funding.