The Better Cotton Initiative (BCI) and IDH have awarded Israel-based agricultural tech start-up Agritask with the first price at the Better Cotton Innovation Award. Indian agricultural tech-company CropIn Technology Solutions was awarded second the second prize. Both these companies will receive cash prizes of €100,000 and €35,000 respectively.

Agritask offers a holistic agronomic platform that enables agricultural stakeholders, including farmers, to capture and make use of a range of data in a highly flexible manner. The Agritask mobile app is customizable, allowing farmers to adopt digital solutions intuitively in a way that works for them.

While CropIn’s solution is a digital farm management solution that enables complete digitization of farming processes. The platform empowers data-driven decision-making and provides complete visibility of people, processes and performance on a near real-time basis. It enables farmers to efficiently manage farming practices, while also ensuring they are adhering to compliance and certification requirements.

Initiated by BCI and IDH, the Better Cotton Innovation Challenge was launched by Dalberg Advisors in November 2019 to find new and innovative ideas to scale more sustainable cotton production. The challenge aimed to highlight innovations in customized training on more sustainable farming practice and innovations to reduce the time and cost of data collection to enable more efficient BCI licensing processes.