Sprout is excited to announce a new member to the Corporate Partner family.
The Central Economic Development Agency (CEDA) is focused on driving and facilitating economic growth in Palmerston North and Manawatu, with the aim of becoming New Zealands most progressive region by 2025. CEDA’s goal is to build a strong foundation for a long-term, sustainable, thriving economy.
Sprout companies and the technologies they are developing have the environment and sustainability at the very core.
Over three years Sprout has been accelerating agritech businesses that are developing technology which enable farmers to be more productive, with less resources. The net result is a productive primary industries that's reducing its impact on the environment.
PALMERSTON NORTH, MANAWATU March 16th, 2018 – By connecting IT experts, software developers and corporates with smart farmers and growers in a hackathon style, they’re given the opportunity to solve industry problems that can help further develop agriculture in our country in an accelerated amount of time.
The Sprout team were invited to speak at the Future Farms conference in Palmerston North, which is held as part of NZ AgriFood Week. It was a pleasure to be asked to speak about the status of the Agritech ecosystem.
Our message was simple, the ecosystem is thriving.
