Garoon Tech, an Armenian agricultural startup that offers products that make life easier for farmers, has won the prestigious Energy Globe Award, an international award in the field of sustainable development.

What is known about the Energy Globe Award?

The Energy Globe Award is considered the most important sustainability award in the world. This year, over 2,500 environmental projects from over 180 countries were nominated for this award. Many respected and well-known companies from Armenia were among them.

What does Garoon Tech do?

Garoon Tech develops a full cycle intelligent irrigation system, which monitors various critical parameters for growing plants through a mobile app.

The company aims to transform traditional farming based on guesswork and intuition into more precise farming based on scientific data.

The company also uses high-tech to identify plant diseases and various symptoms of nutrient deficiencies and acts as a liaison between farmers and agronomists, providing farmers with available expert advice on the type and amount of fertilizer needed to solve the problem. Agronomists, in turn, can earn remotely through Garoon Tech.

Company officials noted that because of the ongoing crisis in the former Soviet Union, Garoon Tech is going through a difficult period today, as that region was the original target market for the company's products.

"We are going to make many transformations within our company to revitalize the agricultural sector, but our original goals and sustainability are absolute and cannot be changed," said Garoon Tech representatives in a statement.