To do so, we must make a fundamental paradigm shift agriculture should be seen as a business and not a development programme. Africa and Nigeria in particular can feed the world. Agriculture and our small farmers in particular, must become the engine for growth. We must articulate a clear vision to make Nigeria an agriculturally industrialised economy to create wealth, jobs and markets for farmers, ensure food security and revive the rural extension system to reduce losses.
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These services are to be delivered through onsite extension workers and mobile devices using toll free calls and messages as well as physical and digital call centres as service medium to provide wide coverage over the dispersed farming settlements with limited rural infrastructure.Īccording to Chairman, CropIT, Alhaji Nasir Ado Bayero, “Nigerian agriculture has potential but no one can eat potential.
For the farmer, the platform will offer access to reliable and affordable agricultural information, certification of extension officers, development of agriculture protocols, e-advisory, and transactional services across major value chains including rice, cassava, soybeans, cowpea, maize, sorghum, cashew, livestock and fish through their mobile phones. The digital platform, which has leading organisations including MTN and 9mobile as strategic partners, will create a knowledge-based farmer society and a well-structured extension officers network. It was created with the vision to transform Africa’s agriculture by deploying a comprehensive and innovative approach and solutions with strong international backing. Its mission is to employ technical know-how to increase smallholder income and productivity by 50 per cent reaching at least 40 per cent women across Nigeria.
The initiative, which is grounded in the agricultural firm’s innovation partnership approach, will support the expansion of high-impact, digitally-enabled services to farmers and extension officers across Nigeria over the next three years.ĬropIT is an agriculture specialist company and a developer that provides financing, management, advisory and services to producers, farmers and investors in the agricultural sector within Nigeria and overseas.
CropIT Nigeria Limited (CropIT) in partnership with the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) have concluded plans to launch a robust digital platform that will impact more than 5,000,000 farmers and over 100,000 agricultural extension officers.
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