[Tagline: If it can help your farm business, you’ll find it in THE FARM CEO™ Newspaper ]
In this first issue for this year (2016), I feature 5 reports on application of ICT to development of African Farming. This page’s article echoes a LOT of the sentiments I’ve expressed over the years about the need for small farmers and larger ones to embrace PC and Internet technology to boost their business growth.
PREVIEW
Agriculture in Senegal is threatened by pests such as locusts, birds and fruit flies, drought, flooding and lack of financial support by government – challenges that often pave the way to low output.
The rain-fed sector employs over 75% of the country’s workforce. But Lamine Guèye is one of the small-scale farmers who have been struggling recently since the 2011-12 agriculture production failed to live up to its expectations.
Asked if he has ever heard of the use of ICTs in farming, he told Biztechafrica: “I don’t know anything about it, but I heard someone was saying on the radio that one day we might end up using technology in farming.
“I also heard that in other countries farmers have computers and other equipment to monitor weather patterns such as rainfall, drought and flooding, also check what kind of products the market wants and the prices of those products.
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Here are the headlines, reviews – and links – for this week’s featured news items:
[URL] How ICT can help small-scale farmers P.1
[URL] AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY FOR SMALL FARMERS IN EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA P.2
[URL] Empowering farmers through mobile communication in west Africa P.2
[URL] How Low-Tech Farming Innovation Can Make African Farmers Climate-ResilientP.3
[URL] Farmer Organizations Work Better with ICT P.3
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