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Olugbemi. Adeyinka Ogunleye
3 weeks ago
Overview
Connecting Farmers with AI: The Impact of Nigeria’s Online Business Community
Agriculture plays a crucial role in food supply availability and socioeconomic growth in Nigeria. The country has an immense potential to use Artificial Intelligence, AI for developing agricultural issues and food security. Being the most populated country in Africa, Nigeria is facing a considerable number of challenges in meeting the food supply demand of its natives. The online business community in Nigeria brings a budding solution to the scenario. AI-based farming methods and practices, automating tasks via integrated data analytics can be a boon to the Nigerian farmers.
Several Agricultural tech companies are now offering AI-driven farming knowledge and solutions to the farmers by ensuring food supply sustainability for the coming days in Nigeria. The Nigerian business community is highly appreciating and evolving with such initiative.
Farmers benefit from AI-driven insights:
While conventional farming is unable to meet the growing food and nutrition demand of the mass of Nigeria, AI-driven farming techniques can be a savior. AI can connect farmers to direct marketers. It can also determine the exact input of needed crops to the farmers through AI applications.
Informative Insights/ AI data:
Many Agro-tech companies provide agronomic analysis to the farmers like advance crop and soil health analysis, yield optimization and recommending inputs. AI-driven insights are collected and analyzed from satellites, drones, pesticide usage, and soil sensors, to anticipate yields. This also minimizes waste, and guides the farmers to customize their finances, farm inputs, and insurance.
Optimization of food supply:
Online community in Nigeria are letting the farmers to connect with the buyers. The AI-driven platform align the supply chain following the market demand for both parties.Nigeria Business Community incorporates with generative business solutions and evolving with AI-based agricultural practices.
New edge farming:
AI solutions are highly impacting the farming structure of Nigeria by upgrading the usage of resources and crop yields increasing. An online community in Nigeria benefiting agronomic advisory platforms for the farmers. This can ensure a stable income for the farmers. Many Agro-startups are providing AI-driven platform services that can determine soil and crop health by using remote sensing in the process.
The Nigerian Government also provides ample support for adopting AI in the agricultural sector. The Government is supporting financially to facilitate sharing knowledge and working together among organizations and individuals in AI-based solution in Agriculture. The highest authority of the country also initiated several training programs and capacity building to equip researchers, entrepreneurs and farmers to propel AI among farmers. Now, Nigerian farmers can get access of AI-driven data, information, and solutions from agro-tech start-ups, capacity-building programs and government initiatives. As AI can deal with upcoming challenges like climate issues, soil conditions and resource management, it is high time to upgrade the farming scenario with AI solutions across the country. Advanced program like leveraging AI tools, machine learning and AI farming solutions helps to get topics like data analytics, and precision farming for farm management. Nigeria’s business community is highly welcoming several schemes and proposals to promote AI in the agricultural sector for the economic betterment of Future Nigeria!