Two master’s students at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Constant Beckerling and Anlo van Wyk, are developing new technologies aimed at disrupting the booming cannabis, or so called ‘green gold’, industry.
Their novel cannabis cultivation technologies, developed for the African climate, have earned them special recognition in the Biosciences category of the Gauteng Accelerator Programme (GAP).
The GAP is a yearly competition held by the Innovation Hub, a subsidiary of the Gauteng Development Agency, and is aimed at tech entrepreneurs who develop technologies that can benefit the Gauteng, South African and African economies.
The release issued by Wits on April 1 notes that “even though they are both passionate cannabis growers”, Beckerling and Van Wyk’s focus remains on developing agri-tech for the sector.
In order to do this, they created a startup called AgriSmart Engineering during the Covid-19 lockdown last year, with a focus on closed-loop hydroponics and aquaponics. The AgriSmart team specialises in the design and implementation of automated smart growing systems.
GROWING FOR GOLD
Beckerling and Van Wyk are approaching their speciality of cannabis cultivation as an engineering problem and marrying their growers experience and intuition with their engineering and technical backgrounds.
“There is a matrix of factors for cannabis cultivation that we consider. As an engineering startup we are developing cultivation technologies for the…
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Two master’s students at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Constant Beckerling and Anlo van Wyk, are developing new technologies aimed at disrupting the booming cannabis, or so called ‘green gold’, industry.
Their novel cannabis cultivation technologies, developed for the African climate, have earned them special recognition in the Biosciences category of the Gauteng Accelerator Programme (GAP).
The GAP is a yearly competition held by the Innovation Hub, a subsidiary of the Gauteng Development Agency, and is aimed at tech entrepreneurs who develop technologies that can benefit the Gauteng, South African and African economies.
The release issued by Wits on April 1 notes that “even though they are both passionate cannabis growers”, Beckerling and Van Wyk’s focus remains on developing agri-tech for the sector.
In order to do this, they created a startup called AgriSmart Engineering during the Covid-19 lockdown last year, with a focus on closed-loop hydroponics and aquaponics. The AgriSmart team specialises in the design and implementation of automated smart growing systems.
GROWING FOR GOLD
Beckerling and Van Wyk are approaching their speciality of cannabis cultivation as an engineering problem and marrying their growers experience and intuition with their engineering and technical backgrounds.
“There is a matrix of factors for cannabis cultivation that we consider. As an engineering startup we are developing cultivation technologies for the…
