By Fisayo James | Numeris Media…… As the digital pulse of the continent beats louder every year at GITEX Africa Morocco (April 7 – 9, 2026) , the role of technology in securing Africa’s food future has never been more critical. Agriculture remains the backbone of our economy, yet it faces unprecedented challenges from climate change to financial exclusion.
In this edition of “Fisayo’s Finds,” I have shortlisted four AgriTech startups from the GITEX Africa 2026 floor that I found particularly interesting. These companies aren’t just building apps; they are building lifelines for smallholder farmers through AI, offline accessibility, and data intelligence.
1. Evet Technology (Nigeria)
Veterinary Intelligence for the Livestock Sector (and everyone): Livestock is a massive part of the African agricultural wealth, but veterinary care is often out of reach. Evet is bridging that gap by digitizing the extension service model.
- What it does: It uses an AI diagnostic tool to report animal symptoms instantly. If the AI can’t solve it, the platform dispatches a licensed veterinarian from its embedded network.
- The “Find”: Beyond health, Evet removes exploitative middlemen by linking farmers directly to verified offtakers and processors. Their “farmer data layer” even helps build credit scores based on animal health records.
2. Nuru Solutions (Kenya)
The Data Backbone for Agri-Finance: Financing small farms is often seen as “too risky” for banks. Nuru Solutions is changing that perception with high-precision data intelligence.
- What it does: By combining satellite imagery with machine learning, Nuru achieves up to 98% accuracy in farm-level analytics. This allows them to offer credit risk scoring and climate early-warning analytics.
- The “Find”: Their impact is already proven: a 35% reduction in credit risk for lenders. As they scale toward 1 million farmers in Kenya, Nuru is essentially providing the “infrastructure of trust” between financiers and the people who feed the continent.
The Intelligent Agronomic Assistant: With 13 years of field experience, the team at e-acta has distilled their expertise into actaDiag. This platform solves the “information gap” that often leads to crop failure.
- What it does: Using the agriDoc service, farmers simply take a photo of a struggling crop. The AI identifies the disease and its severity, then offers precise treatment recommendations.
- The “Find”: What caught my eye was agroSage, a conversational assistant (available in 12 languages and accessible on mobile, web and via API) featuring animated avatars that speak to farmers. By integrating real-time weather and GPS, it ensures that a farmer in the Atlas Mountains gets advice tailored to their specific soil and season.
4. AGRIDIA (Morocco)
Breaking the Literacy and Connectivity Barrier: Tech is useless if it requires a high-speed connection and a university degree to operate. Agridia addresses the 60 million smallholders who have been historically left behind.
- What it does: This is an all-in-one farm management tool that works fully offline. It prioritizes voice interaction in local languages like Darija and Arabic, meaning zero literacy is required.
- The “Find”: The ability to manage irrigation, track expenses, and generate official subsidy reports—all through voice and a camera—is a game-changer for the 1.5 million Moroccan farmers Agridia is targeting as their initial launchpad.
My take: Whether it’s through the offline-first approach of Agridia or the sophisticated satellite modeling of Nuru Solutions, these four startups represent the diverse, resilient future of African agriculture. If you were at GITEX this week, these stands would have been mandatory stops.
Based in Badagry – Nigeria, Oluwafisayo James is a rookie Mobile Journalist (MoJo) at Numeris Media. She is just excited to search for and capture entrepreneur stories locally and across the world, using just her mobile phone.
Numeris Média is media partner to GITEX Africa Morocco 2026