GTTW: From Village Fields to Your Chocolate Bar: Inside Ghana’s Tech powered Multi-Million Dollar Crop Trade

About this episode

Kelvin Tyron discusses the journey of chocolate from Ghanaian villages to global markets and the technology involved in this trade.

Your chocolate bar’s journey starts in a Ghanaian village. In this episode, Kelvin Tyron , COO of Saving Grains, reveals the operational grind behind connecting rural farmers to global buyers — and building a multi-million dollar crop trade . From overcoming infrastructure gaps to implementing tech in the field, this is the real behind-the-scenes of Africa’s farm-to-world journey.

People in this episode

Guest: Kelvin Tyron

Topics covered

• agriculture
• technology
• trade
• supply chain
• Ghana
• farmers
• chocolate

Keywords

• chocolate
• Ghana
• farm-to-table
• technology
• crop trade
• farmers
• infrastructure

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Saving Grains

Places: Ghana, Ghanaian

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