New Georgian app ‘Traktor’ among top 20 European start-ups
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A Georgia-made online and mobile application for farmers in emerging markets has been recognised as one of the best start-ups in Europe.
The Startup Fest Europe competition in the Netherlands this week revealed the Traktor app was one among the top 20 new online and mobile applications in Europe despite it still being in the development phase.
Startup Fest Europe is a European festival that helps new businesses grow by bringing together founders, investors, business leaders and developers around specific themes. Last week’s event attracted top American businessmen including Tim Cook from Apple, Eric Schmidt from Google and Travis Kalanick from Uber.
The Traktor app was unique because it provided farmers in Georgia, and other emerging markets, with useful agricultural tips and support.
Experts at local IT development agency Elva are currently working on the final development phase of the app.
Over two days in early June up to 10 developers from Google will assist Elva’s team to develop and tune specific components of the new app. The Traktor app is expected to be released this September.
The Traktor app will be free to use and available to farmers and businesses throughout the country and in other emerging markets.
The app will offer:
- Training videos âon a range of different crops;
- Advanced weather data;
- Consultations with local experts about farm-related problems;
- A crop calendar – a personalised schedule showing the best times to plant, irrigate and harvest their crops.
When operational Traktor will work with several organisations and enjoy a close partnership with Mosavali, a non-profit initiative of Elva to produce and disseminate educational content on agriculture in Georgia.
The Government of Georgia is starting a new program to finance start-ups in the country as a way to foster entrepreneurial spirit, encourage the creation of new businesses and develop the economy.
The Government of Georgia is creating a special group to convey the opportunities, problems and ideas of the business society to the Government, to foster entrepreneurial spirit in the country.
Supporting start-ups and infrastructure development
The Government of Georgia is taking action to speed up the creation of vital infrastructural projects and assisting entrepreneurs who establish new start-ups in the country.
Farmers in Georgia and other emerging markets are now able to get useful agricultural tips and support via new online and mobile application ‘Traktor’.
The iOS developers in Georgia have been given the opportunity to create their own accounts and place applications in the App Store, a digital distribution platform, developed by Apple Inc., for mobile apps on its iOS operating system.
Georgian platform AgroServ.Ge, which enables easy communication between agricultural service providers and the recipient of agricultural services is among the 16 winners of the European Young Innovators 2020.