The digital era offers many new innovations and breakthrough opportunities! This innovative effort will enable the African continent to get ahead of the curve, and more efficiently and sustainably unlock the full potential of its smallholder farmers and agribusiness sector. Gains will not come easy, but as we do the right things we will succeed.” It must be structured, developed and financed as a business for us to fully unlock its potential. To do so we must make a fundamental paradigm shift: Agriculture should be seen as a business and not a development program. 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 industrialized economy, to create wealth, jobs and markets for farmers, ensure food security and revive the rural extension system to reduce losses. 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 centers 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 organizations including MTN and 9mobile as strategic partners, will create a knowledge based farmer society and a well-structured extension officers network. Read also: CBN, governors in crucial meeting to boost agriculture sector 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 percent reaching at least 40 percent women across Nigeria. Cropit 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.
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