Heifer Project International organized the final event of the 2022 AYuTe Ethiopia Challenge where the top-5 finalists competed on a pitch competition held at Elilly International Hotel on 13 June 2022.
In the final-round pitch competition, Meskerem Yemaneh Kahsay, BSc holder in Automotive Engineering from Bahirdar University with an odorless poultry house innovation idea become the 2022 AYuTe Ethiopia Challenge Champion and received the 10,000 USD cash prize.
AYuTe Ethiopia Challenge is a national edition of AYuTe Africa Challenge open to youth AgriTech innovators in Ethiopia. The objective of AYuTE Ethiopia Challenge is to identify winning agricultural and innovative tech ideas with the potential to address challenges of smallholder farmers in Ethiopia by improving production, productivity, income, access to finance and/or resilience and to award a young AgriTech innovator who stand-out in stages of innovation pitch competition.
AYuTe Ethiopia competition is a national Competition open to applications from all regions and federal administrations of Ethiopia. AYuTe Ethiopia Challenges comes with a total prize of 20,000 USD cash award for the top-three winners as first gets 10,000 dollars, whilst the second receives 6,500 dollars and the 3rd 3,500 dollars.