Agsol is an award winning social business incorporated in 2016 by long-term collaborators and friends, Matt Carr and Greg Denn. Combined, they have spent more than 40 years working in the agricultural and renewable energy sectors across three continents. Agsol is committed to providing agricultural and energy access solutions to off-grid farming communities across the world. As a social enterprise Agsol keeps its drive for social impact at the core of what it does and commits to reinvest the majority of any profits into furthering its social mission.
HISTORY
Agsol developed from a Papua New Guinean (PNG) business that had been manufacturing and supplying agricultural machinery and solar technologies in PNG and Pacific markets since 2001. Agsol was formed in 2016 to build on early successes with “solarising” small agro-processing machines and to take these technologies to a global market.
The first products were developed in 2015 and comprised small agro-processing machines retrofitted with 24 volt motors and control systems (see video below). After more than 800 solar machine sales and lots of feedback and iterations, we continue to apply this information to design the best machines of their kind in the world.
Agsol established itself in Kenya in mid 2018 to target the East African market and specifically maize and cereals milling, which are the most important staples in the region.
PARTNERS
We partner with solar companies, agri-machinery suppliers, agri-service providers, mini-grid developers, asset financing companies and project developers to bring our unique machines to rural markets.
We’ve been fortunate to be supported by some fabulous forward thinking funders that realise efficient, affordable, milling technologies have immense potential for impact, and that developing entirely new innovation like this is complicated and expensive.