South African Company Makes Sensors to Increase Crop Yield
“We manufacture environmental sensors and biosensors to improve crop yield and farming industry and we also look for water purifications spaces by using our devices,” Caroline Matenchi, the founder and director of Agr-Smart Tech company, told ANA.
“We are based in South Africa’s Johannesburg city and we are also working with the authorities in the UK to have a branch for exports,” she added.
“Also, we are looking for customers in Iran because I know that Iran has lots of desert areas which are in need of water purification and methods to increase their crop yield,” Matenchi said.
INOTEX 2024, the innovation and technology exhibition, opened at Tehran's Pardis Science and Technology Park on May 7 in the presence of Iranian Vice-President for Science and Technology Rouhollah Dehqani Firouzabadi.
Delivering a speech in the opening ceremony, Dehqani Firouzabadi described the INOTEX as a good event and a pivot for bringing all Iranian technological ecosystems together so that it could accelerate the rapid development of Iran's innovation.
He said that there are 10,000 knowledge-based companies in the country that have more than 530 billion tomans in sales and have had exports 3 times more than last year.
Knowledge-based companies have registered $2.5 billion of exports, Dehqani Firouzabadi added.
He noted that last year 43 foreign delegations were hosted by Iran, and underlined the country's readiness to share its knowledge-based experiences and cooperate to have joint tech parks.
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