Iranian Knowledge-Based Companies Display Products at African Farming Exhibitions
With the support and collaboration of the Iran’s Vice Presidency for Science, Technology and Knowledge-Based Economy, the Vice Presidency's Food and Agriculture Department, Iran's International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Development Organization, Iran’s Export Development and Technology Transfer Fund and Iran's House of Innovation and Technology (iHiT) in Kenya, a delegation with the participation of 16 knowledge-based and technological companies operating in the field of food and agriculture was dispatched to the Republic of Kenya to participate at the 9th AGRITEC AFRICA, the 7th Dairy Livestock & Poultry Exhibition, and 4th Grains Africa 2024.
At those exhibitions, 16 Iranian companies in the knowledge-based pavilion of the Islamic Republic of Iran presented their achievements in the fields of seeds, fertilizers and poisons, food industry, agricultural drones, machinery, tea and animal husbandry. Visitors to the exhibition were mainly from African countries, India and China, who warmly received the Iranian knowledge-based products.
Knowledge-based firms such as drones, agricultural machinery, corn seeds, animal embryo transfer technology and tea processing were the most popular in terms of attracting the highest number of visitors during the exhibition. More than 10 meetings were held with the participation of representative of the Food and Agriculture Development Department of the Iranian Vice Presidency, Iranian companies and Kenyan parties outside the exhibition space with the aim of visiting the relevant infrastructure of Kenya, discussing the possibility of joint investment or transfer of technology and business negotiations to design and develop a cooperation roadmap for the future.
Many opportunities were identified with the involvement of Iranian companies to operate in the agricultural sector of Kenya, which is expected to lead to economic contracts with Kenyan parties in the coming months with the intensified efforts of knowledge-based companies, the facilitation efforts by the Iranian iHiT in Kenya and the support of vice presidency.
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