This 22-year-old made an app to help farmers predict risks to their crops
Soj Gamayon beat out 110,000 applicants to win the Red Bull Basement World Final in Tokyo with an app that translates complex data for farmers.
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Filipino rice farmers often lose 30% of their potential harvest to pests, disease, and weather. To respond to those losses, local entrepreneur Soj Gamayon, 22, created AgriConnect, an app that gives rice farmers, like his family, an easy-to-read indication of potential hazards and suggests actionable solutions. As Jeremy Caplan reports in Fast Company, the AI-powered app won the Red Bull Basement World Final tech competition, opening the door for Gamayon to form a partnership with Silicon Valley’s Plug and Play. He hopes to refine his technology, develop other partnerships, and expand the app to support farmers who grow produce and raise livestock.
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Jeremy Caplan is a director at CUNY’s Newmark Graduate School of Journalism and the creator of the Wonder Tools newsletter on Substack.
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