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Weather Safe Ltd. was one of the sponsors of the UK-Rwanda Trade & Investment Forum 2014 held in London on the 22 October 2014. Among the eminent keynote speakers, speaking on the current business opportunities in Rwanda, there was the Rwanda President Paul Kagame and the Department for International Development (DFID) Minister of State, Desmond Swayne. The event that was considered a great success and attracted over three hundred business leaders in various sectors including agriculture, energy, mining and banking.
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Agriculture Meets Big Data. See Further. Know Earlier. Act Quicker.®
Weather Safe Ltd sponsor at the UK-Rwanda Trade & Investment Forum
22nd October 2014
London, UK - On 22nd October, the Plaisterers' Hall, City of London hosted the UK-Rwanda
Trade & Investment Forum 2014. Weather Safe Ltd was one of the sponsors of the event that
was considered a great success and attracted over three hundred business leaders in various
sectors including agriculture, energy, mining and banking.
Among the eminent keynote speakers, speaking on the current business opportunities in
Rwanda, there was the Rwanda President Paul Kagame, Department for International
Development (DFID) Minister of State, Desmond Swayne, Rwanda Finance Minister Claver
Gatete and National Bank of Rwanda Governor John Rwangombwa.
During the event, David Mills, CEO at Weather Safe Ltd. addressed the audience by presenting
the WeatherSafe Coffee’s satellite enabled solutions for the coffee sector and the focus on
Rwanda as technology and knowledge hub in South East Africa.
WeatherSafe continues to progress in its ambitious journey to change the way farming is done
today. The company’s development in Rwanda is fuelled by the encouraging results from the
trials currently undertaken in selected farming areas in the local coffee sector.
The commercial launch of WeatherSafe Coffee services in Rwanda is planned for the Q1 2015.
Rwanda President Paul Kagame addressing the UK-Rwanda Trade & Investment Forum audience
Agriculture Meets Big Data. See Further. Know Earlier. Act Quicker.®
About Weather Safe Ltd.
WeatherSafe’s mission is to significantly optimise yields and profitability from agriculture
through improvements in the management of agricultural practices and intelligence which
enable farmers to respond effectively and quickly to environmental risks.
The advantage of satellite technology in agriculture is its ability to collect up-to-the-minute,
reliable data on crop condition and pinpoint spatial and temporal variations. WeatherSafe offers
environmental, social and economic stewardship while enabling pro-active management.
WeatherSafe Coffee provides coffee stakeholders with unprecedented access to structured Big
Data that can be directly communicated to farmers across the country. Our web platform
displays up to date information to the supply chain that includes continuous (weather) risk
analysis and up to date pest and disease monitoring. This platform enables stakeholders to
coordinate and implement more effective crop management strategies, decisions and
operations.
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