Isaac Sesi Profile: Ghanaian Engineer Confronts Agritech Commercialisation Challenge
A profile of Ghanaian engineer Isaac Sesi examines his work building agritech tools for farmers and the commercialisation obstacles he faces beyond the invention stage. The account highlights the broader challenge facing local hardware and agritech founders in translating technical solutions into sustainable businesses within Ghana's ecosystem.
Isaac Sesi: Winning awards is not the same as building a business
A farmer can agree your device will save him money and still have no money to buy it.
That single sentence from Sesi's own account is the whole commercialisation problem in agritech — and it's the gap that swallows Ghanaian hardware founders whole. The invention works. The pitch wins prizes. The flights and stages pile up. And then the sale doesn't close.
The real work — figuring out who actually pays, and how — is unglamorous, and no award accelerates it.
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