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. Agriculture should be seen as a business and not a development program. “To do so we must make a fundamental paradigm shift. 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. 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 the Chairman, CropIT, Alhaji Nasir Ado Bayero, “Nigerian agriculture has potential, but no one can eat potential. The digital platform, which has organisations including MTN and 9mobile as strategic partners, would create a knowledge-based farmer society and a well-structured extension officers network.įor the farmer, the platform would 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 initiative would 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 plan to launch a digital platform that will impact more than 5,000,000 farmers and over 100,000 agricultural extension officers.
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