Bridgette Okoike

Nigerian tech entrepreneur revolutionizing African agriculture through AI-driven solutions

About Bridgette Okoike

Bridgette Okoike is a visionary Nigerian entrepreneur who founded Agritex in 2021, an agri-tech startup using AI and satellite imagery to empower smallholder farmers across West Africa. Her platform provides real-time crop monitoring, weather predictions, and market price analysis through a mobile app, reaching over 50,000 farmers by 2023. This innovation addresses food insecurity while increasing average incomes by 30% among users.

Impact & Achievements

Okoike's work was recognized by the 2022 African Innovation Foundation Prize and the 2023 UN Sustainable Development Goals Award. Her team developed a drought prediction model that helped farmers in Northern Nigeria prepare for the 2022 Sahel drought, saving an estimated $12 million in crop losses. She also established the Farmer Future Academy, training 2,000 women in digital farming techniques since 2020.

Global Recognition

In 2023, she was named one of Time Magazine's 'Next Generation Leaders' and delivered a TED Talk here. Her work has been featured in BBC Africa, Forbes Africa, and the MIT Technology Review's 'Emerging Innovators' section. Okoike's vision extends to creating a pan-African agricultural data network to improve food resilience continent-wide.