Ghana | Smart agricultural machinery

2026 Top Agri-food Pioneers: Jeffrey Appiagyei

Jeffrey Appiagyei is an agriculture engineer and entrepreneur focused on building machine learning systems and analytics that turn data insights into improved agricultural outcomes. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer of SAYeTECH, a product- and service-oriented company that designs and builds smart agricultural machinery suited for African conditions. Product lines include a multi-crop thresher, cereal dryer, hammer mills for poultry feed processing and cereal grain cleaners. The multi-crop thresher is 60 times faster than manual threshing, reduces post-harvest losses by up to 35% and increases farmers’ income by 50%. Appiagyei has led embedded sensor system design and development for IoT applications in agriculture, optimizing machinery operations through data-driven insights. His innovations contribute to agriculture-led industrialization and markets, with the vision of creating one million jobs, reducing poverty by 50% among end-users and ensuring food security in operating countries by 2030.