The DRC has the potential to become the breadbasket for the entire African continent. It has 80 million hectares of arable land, diverse climatic conditions and abundant water resources. But this potential has barely been tapped because the country is lacking the necessary transformative industrial capital and expertise.

Finding new ways to use biology comes from the dawn of civilisation, the dawn of agriculture.

Technobuild believes that if you can get better at making new tools, you can get better at manipulating, at making biology do the things that people would want it to do and thus make life better for them.

As far as agriculture is concerned, hyper-spectral data is one of the many agricultural technologies that we believe, in Africa, has a wide range of applications in precision farming including direct and immediate information of:

• Quantification of agriculture crops,
• Modelling forest canopy biochemical properties,
• Detecting crop stress and disease,
• Mapping leaf chlorophyll content as it influences crop production
• Identifying plants affected by contaminants such as arsenic
• Classifying vegetation species and type
• Characterizing wet lands
• Mapping invasive species etc..