Atsuku msenhemba mercy feeds chickens in its jose farm that benefits from Anatsor local start-up technology.
With some taps on your phone, Dandom Nangor knows at what temperature his greenhouse is, when its crops and even soil pH to water.
Supported by Artificial Intelligence, it is all designed to make its chili easier – and perhaps a type of agriculture in Nigeria enters 2.0, where millions of people in the sector work, subsistence farmers, rapid, young technical activists.
With the investigation into the soil, the local Agri-Tech was sent with data collecting data processed by the local company Green Eden and on its phone, “My production (about) has increased by nearly 400 kg,” or 20 percent, 34-year-old Nangor, who is also an IT analyst, told the AFP during his visit to his greenhouse in Jose.
The plateau is sitting around the state capital, sitting 1,200 meters above sea level and is known for its mild climate, fed to the nation for a long time, their fruits and vegetables are ending in Nigeria markets.
But they have not been spared from climate change, as rapid irregular rains have threatened farmers in West Africa, most of which are small holders who work without irrigation.
There are more bets for the whole country: Some 20 percent of Nigeria’s GDP comes from agriculture.
Green Eden workers open a ‘Scorgro’ hardware device in the greenhouse using local agricultural technology.
Green Eden founder Stephanie Melts said, “This was a simple problem. Climate change.”
“This is what we are trying to solve.”
A 21-year-old pharmacy student, Maltus, said that the start-up found funding from friends and family for the first time, before more businesses and foundations began to include-Nigeria’s stirring technology views and providing an opportunity to “bridge the gap” between its rural Hinderlands.
Area for Herhouse
Jose’s central city is becoming an agri-tech hub itself.
Mercy Ettesuqu, who raised chickens, told the AFP that after adopting a monitoring system from another local start-up, “We barely record any mortality cases”.
Anaatsor keeps an eye on technology, temperature, humidity and air and water quality on poultry farms.
Farmworkers select potatoes in Lamingo Dam Fields in Jose, which is becoming an agri-tech hub.
Due to climate change, “weather patterns are uncertain”, the 24 -year -old founder of Anatsar Mirium Egbo said.
“When the temperature is too high, the chickens do not eat,” he told AFP.
When it becomes very moist, “the environment becomes moist, they live together to heat. And it results in suffocation”.
Now, the minute shift in circumstances is now sent directly to Estukh’s phone.
“Suppose when the water is contaminated, it is not very good for the chickens. I get a notification,” he said. “I no longer wake up in the middle of the night to examine chickens.”
Although $ 150 he paid for the system – three times the monthly minimum wage – out of access to some, “it has reduced great stress for me”.
New technology is coming online at an important time, Nuhu Admu Gworgavar said, “An Agronomy Professor at Jose University, climate change and urbanization, more and more Nigerians drive away from agriculture and drive in cities.”
The bets are high in a country where some 20 percent of GDP comes from agriculture.
Dried and irregular rains “take people away from their fields” – and many people are unlikely to return.
“They could not go into agriculture again,” he told AFP.
Eyes in the sky
Critics in the comprehensive agricultural-technical sector are concerned that instead of reducing their negative effects of farming on the environment, innovation is being directed at the growing output.
And will greatly reduce artificial intelligence producers to help reduce the decline of land, financing and poor infrastructure.
Nigeria has only an internet connection of only 40 percent of people – a rate that falls in rural areas.
But an English literature student, Gambo Vadam Zakka, still has dreams of installing technology in the fields, as he pursues a start-up that connects satellite imagery and AI to warn farmers of insect transition through text messages.
Many producers are struggling with the fall and poor reach of the land – while some people in rural areas have internet.
He wants to monitor market prices, to give farmers more information about selling their crops.
“We can give them an SMS alert, such as heavy beans prices are selling at 15,000 Naira ($ 10) per bag … but expected to increase prices by next week,” Zakka said.
For Michael Inm Itsagok, who have grown potatoes, bananas and cucumbers for 25 years, this is the “correct” technique, which will help to make some chance and guess out of farming.
“If you are coming to you, there is no insight,” he said, “You have been left at the mercy of what has come.”
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