{"id":683185,"date":"2019-08-16T12:53:16","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T12:53:16","guid":{"rendered":" <br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><em><strong>Adnane Alaoui Soulimani<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THE MOHAMMED VI Polytechnic University (UMVIP) in Morocco recently organized\nan information session in Accra about Impulse \u2013 a best in-class start-up\nacceleration programme \u2013 wit"},"modified":"2019-08-16T12:53:16","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T12:53:16","slug":"impulse-to-accelerate-young-ghanaian-start-ups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/16\/impulse-to-accelerate-young-ghanaian-start-ups\/","title":{"rendered":"Impulse To Accelerate Young Ghanaian Start-Ups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><strong>Adnane Alaoui Soulimani<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>THE MOHAMMED VI Polytechnic University (UMVIP) in Morocco recently organized<br \/>\nan information session in Accra about Impulse \u2013 a best in-class start-up<br \/>\nacceleration programme \u2013 with support from the OCP Group and its subsidiary,<br \/>\nOCP Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Designed with Mass Challenge, a global accelerator organization, Impulse<br \/>\naims to sustain the ambitious innovation agenda of OCP Group and to accelerate the<br \/>\ndevelopment of innovative start-ups working on African challenges in the fields<br \/>\nof Agritech, Biotech, Mining Tech and Materials Science &amp; Nanotech.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Ghana information session attended by various<br \/>\nstakeholders ranging from young entrepreneurs in agribusiness, venture<br \/>\ncapitalists, farmers to corporate executives, Adnane Alaoui Soulimani, Impulse Programme<br \/>\nDirector, stated: \u201cMohammed VI Polytechnic University is proud to have created,<br \/>\ntogether with Mass Challenge and OCP Group, a unique and outstanding value<br \/>\nproposition for start-ups working on African Challenges. We are also pleased to<br \/>\nbe able to empower our own youth and entrepreneurs to invent our own future,<br \/>\nrespecting our identities and following our own models of development. The<br \/>\nImpulse team has been delighted to be able to present and discuss the programme<br \/>\noffering with representatives from the Ghanaian start-up ecosystem. We look<br \/>\nforward to receiving applications from Ghanaian entrepreneurs to our programme.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Founder of Trotro Tractor, Kamal, indicated that such an acceleration programme<br \/>\nwould help propel his business to higher heights and expressed excitement that<br \/>\nOCP Africa is introducing Impulse to Agri-businesses in Ghana. He said: \u201cAny<br \/>\ninnovative initiative that seeks to support smallholder farmers must be<br \/>\ncommended and supported.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Paulina Ady Wiad, Director of Women in Agric, disclosed that the<br \/>\ngovernment through other private organizations had trained women in tractor<br \/>\noperation and 60 of them would graduate from the training in the coming week.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine Akpaloo, a farmer and a tractor operator in the Volta Region,<br \/>\ndisclosed how technology helped her record increased yield and revenue in his<br \/>\nfarm business. She said: \u201cMy parents are farmers and when I took over the<br \/>\nmanagement of the farms, I adopted an innovation which helps identify pest and<br \/>\ndiseases and reduce them so as to increase yield.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adnane Alaoui Soulimani THE MOHAMMED VI Polytechnic University (UMVIP) in Morocco recently organized an information session in Accra about Impulse \u2013 a best in-class start-up acceleration programme \u2013 with support from the OCP Group and its subsidiary, OCP Africa. 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