Nigeria, Oct. 26 -- Students from Sunflower School, Kano State, have won Junior Achievement Nigeria's (JAN) 2026 National Company of the Year Competition with an artificial intelligence-powered platform designed to help farmers make better agricultural decisions.

The team, Agrolens Technologies, comprising Fadillah Abdulsalam, Ruqayya Jallo, Hayfa Mukhtar and Maryam Butu, won a US$250 cash prize and an all-expenses-paid trip to Cape Town, South Africa, where it will represent Nigeria at the African Company of the Year Competition.

Their innovation, AgroLens AI, is a free mobile platform that combines crop disease and pest detection, treatment recommendations, real-time market prices, connections to buyers and information on agricultural...