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While working on a project supported by the USDA Foreign Acts Service, Nigerian-born Purdue Professor Klein Ileleji began exploring ideas for improving solar-powered food dehydrators. While the project focused solely on maize drying, leleji quickly set out to improve upon technologies for a food drying system workable for more kinds of crops.
Going back to African countries, I could see where the technology gaps were. My goal was to close those gaps, not only in terms of making technologies readily available to farmers but also ensuring that people have support and training to help shape this technology.— Klein Ileleji
Ileleji received seed money and support from Purdue’s Ag-Celerator program along with funding through Elevate Ventures to establish JUA Technologies International in 2016. Working with the Export Indiana Accelerator Program, JUA has filled orders from across the globe, including 1,000 units purchased by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and 8,000 units supplied to the Kenyan government to address food security issues resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The next phase for JUA Technologies is to establish a solid management team for the future while attracting even more investors.
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