Technology and agriculture meet in Agrytech

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There is a need for innovation and R&D in the agro-industry sector in Lebanon and the region. Agrytech, a program by Berytech focusing on innovations in agriculture, was created to address this need. It has four major pillars including an accelerator program and an agri-food innovation cluster. Agrytech was promoted to university students and graduates through various activities and interest in the accelerator program, now in its third year, has risen slowly and steadily. Agrytech received its second round of three-year funding from the Foreign Ministry of The Netherlands this August 2019. At the time of writing, Lebanon is over a week into nationwide protests which were, to a large extent, fueled by the miserable economic situation the country is facing. Now more than ever, we are reminded of the importance of high performing productive sectors, namely industry and agriculture, in a country’s economy. In a 2018 article published in