Stakeholders across different agricultural value chains have called for an increase in the use of digital technology to improve the country’s farm mechanization processes as part of strategies to boost food security.
They posited that Nigeria, despite being endowed with a large expanse of arable land and a huge population will continue to struggle with meeting the food needs of its population as a result of the use of crude technology by a significant number of its farmers.
They urged the government to harness the potential of digital technologies in the agricultural mechanization policies with particular attention to developing technologies that meet the peculiar needs of Nigeria weather, climate, and land.
They spoke at the 2024 National Agricultural Mechanization and Innovation Summit- NAMIS’ 24 with the theme ‘Agricultural Mechanization Value Chain Optimization: The Inevitability of Digital Technologies.’ held in Lagos.
Speaking, the National President of Connection of Stakeholders in Agricultural Mechanisation (CONESAM), Mr. Ola Oladimeji said “We are working together to ensure we have agric mechanization that will finally give us food security. We are working together with research institutes and other regulatory bodies to ensure that we have unified agricultural equipment that will help us in farming.
Source:The Nation
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