Harambe Nigeria Staff Writer Tukeni Obasi writes about the importance of mobile technology for agriculture in her latest Business Day article. Last week, I appraised the ministry of Agriculture’s new fertilizer voucher scheme through which farmers will now be able to receive fertilizer and...

At the recently concluded Innovations in Extension and Advisory Services International Conference in Nairobi, Kenya held November 15-18, 2011, the audience learned that more use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools could make up for the gap in agricultural extension workers...

By Femi Adewumi In a recent report, titled Connected Agriculture, Vodafone and Accenture identified 12 opportunities for mobile phone technology to increase agricultural income and productivity. Some of these platforms are already widely used in Africa, while others are still in the early...

Respite might soon come the way of the ever growing army of unemployed youths in Edo State as the state government hopes to generate more employment through the agricultural and information and communication sectors. This indication came up following the proposed collaboration between the...

Technology is revolutionizing the agricultural sector – and many other sectors- across Africa.  Through mobile technology applications, farmers are getting easy access to information, services and markets.Consequently, farmers are able to improve their farming practices and increase the...