African youths are creative, resilient, and innovative. These qualities place them at the forefront of driving change not just locally, but globally.
From financial innovations in tech to breakthroughs in engineering and medicine, young Africans continue to prove that they are problem-solvers, visionaries, and leaders.
Through our Improving Smallholder Farmers Access to Small-scaled Mechanization Services(ISSAM) Project in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, TracTrac is positioning youths as a driving force in transforming rural economies.
The initiative is equipping them as mechanization service providers, expanding smallholder farmers’ access to affordable, small-scale mechanization services, and fostering viable, youth-led agribusiness enterprises. In just the first year of the project, we have trained and onboarded over 2,500 young people, including women, men, and persons with disabilities aged 18 to 35, into the mechanization business across Nasarawa and Kaduna States in Nigeria.
From these trainees, 283 independent cooperatives have emerged, each operating as a fully functional mechanization enterprise with our continued technical and business development support.
These youth-led businesses are not just ideas on paper, they are fully operational and making a difference in their communities. Each cooperative has been equipped with modern agricultural tools such as solar-powered and motorized knapsack sprayers, fertilizer applicators, grain threshers, soil testing kits, tablets, power banks, PPE wears and other productivity-enhancing kits.
Armed with these tools, they provide critical services to local farmers. They are reducing drudgery, improving efficiency, and boosting yields. In doing so, these youths are directly contributing to Nigeria’s food security goals and helping the nation meet its growing food demand.
This model of youth-led local action is a practical example of how community-based enterprises can generate global impact driving both economic empowerment and sustainable agricultural transformation.
To commemorate International Youth Day 2025, we hosted a peer-to-peer learning event for our MSP cooperatives. The event served as a platform for them to share business progress, discuss challenges, and exchange practical solutions. Rural leaders and local government officials in Kokona LGA of Nasarawa state joined the occasion, witnessing a live demonstration of the Tryctor in action as one of our trained operators carried out a harrowing operation.
Nigerian youths are proving that with the right tools, training, and networks, they can build enterprises that feed nations, uplift communities, and inspire the world.