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Precision Agriculture: FarmKonnect To Pioneer Agricultural E-Center in Nigeria

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In the last couple of decades there has been a drastic upheaval in the Agricultural sector. Since the beginning of information age and digitization of vocations, a new concept and system of farming, called precision agriculture, had started to gain momentum and wax in popularity. Experts have suggested that more than 50 percent of today’s farmers use at least one or more precision farming methods, and by 2025, Precision Agriculture will scale up overall agricultural productivity by up to 400 billion US Dollars. What is Precision Agriculture? Precision agriculture simply entails a controlled method of farming or a system of […]

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Precision Farming and Its Importance

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Agricultural productivity has greatly improved due to the global availability of fertilizers and pesticides which are used in increasing crop yield. However, misuse of these products and lack of awareness of the field parameters can decrease productivity and endanger the environmental balance in the cultivation area. Farming is becoming more scientific, with remote sensing, GPS and data analytics all being added to farming equipment. Thousands of farmers are progressively adopting the new equipment to make their farming more precise. Drones have gradually replaced tractors for easy agricultural practices which aid efficiency and production. Farming technology includes remote sensing with data […]

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IMPORTANT FACTS TO KNOW ABOUT CHEMICAL PROTECTION OF CROP PLANTS

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Chemical protection of crops has become an important part of crop farming for which certain facts must be understood. In fact, the development of chemicals protection for crop plants is an important activity within the chemical industry. Some of these chemicals, the insecticides, are also very important in combating plant, human and animal diseases. Without chemicals, many crops would suffer dramatic losses. Food crops must compete with 30,000 species of weeds, 3,000 species of worms and 10,000 species of plant-eating insects. Even the threats don’t stop once crops leave fields – bugs, molds and rodents can all cause damage in […]

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Changing The Agricultural Story

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Changing the Agricultural Story Compiled by Olusegun Falade 10,000 years ago marked the beginning of agriculture. Before that time, earlier humans survived on wild fruits, veggies and animal hunting. But when years of casting seeds aside caused plants to spring up in unexpected places, our ancestors started considering the possibility of cultivating close to home. Many more years led to several improvements from planting styles to irrigation methods to domestication of animals. Even though it took a lot of time and hard work, they were able to achieve a certain level of farming that worked well for them. Fast forward […]

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Sustainable Agriculture

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compiled by Olusegun Falade Sustainable agriculture, according to wikipedia.org, refers to farming in sustainable ways, which means meeting society’s food and textile present needs, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Sustainability focuses on the business process and practice of a farm in general, rather than a specific agricultural product. Sustainable agriculture produces safe food with high nutritional value. The quality of food is now more important than ever before. Numerous studies found out that the nutritional content of grains, fruits and vegetables keeps decreasing. Scientists believe that popular high yielding varieties of crops often have poorer capacity […]

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Daylight, not rains, drives vegetation growth onset!

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Farmers in most parts of Africa have always waited for the rains before they begin to plant their crops. To them, a season begins with the coming of rains. However, that may be all about to change due to the findings of a research project that used satellite data to work out what causes the growing season to start. According to the research conducted from 2014 to 2018, the analysis across different regions of Africa consistently found the amount of time that a plant or animal is exposed to light in a 24-hour period — known as photoperiod — as […]

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Africa’s Food System Could be Infiltrated By Nematodes!

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As humans advance to solve specific problems, another set of challenges emerges. This is one of the several paradoxes of development. The protracted efforts to combat climate change and its debilitating effect on the human race has raised other problems, one of which is the invasion of some deadly parasites on the farms. Climate change and Africa’s high population growth rate and rapid urbanization necessitate intensification of agriculture in the continent, such as producing more from the same piece of land. However, more pests and diseases come with intensification, especially from soilborne threats, such as nematodes. In a research review […]

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AI, The Big Data and Smart Farming

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A very long time ago, the ancient Egypt Philosopher and founder of Hermetism, Hermes Trismegistus, mentioned that by discovering the true nature of the gods, man has been able to reproduce it. But of course, this philosophical foundation of the ability of man to create machines is not to be downplayed while it is argued that the invention of the (first-generation) actionable digital computer in the 1940s triggered interests and investment in the sphere of Artificial Intelligence. In the 1950s the Turing Test was heavily lauded after Alan Turing speculated about the possibility of creating machines that think. According to […]

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Farm to Fork

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It is apparently undoubtable that the modern day agricultural practice is the key to global food security. Several accounts have proven that technological farming system is the future of the future; therefore, there is a need to widen the scope of nutritious food production and availability system.

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Impact Of FarmKonnect Agribusiness In World Food Crisis In Nigeria

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By Solomon Adekola   Nigeria has never had food security. It has as usual been importing rice, beans and other food items. Since the sources of supplied of these importation are in food crisis it has a spillover effect on Nigeria. The most silent area is that food price will be on the high side, and result to low quantity of food to be import thereby, causing instability in the country economic, social and political sector. Many will starve to death, crime rate will be on the high side, and the rate of poverty will be extremely high.   Poverty […]

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Agriculture and Artificial Intelligence

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 Agriculture and farming is one of the oldest and most important professions in the world. Humanity has come a long way over the millennia in how we farm and grow crops with the introduction of various technologies. As the world population continues to grow and land becomes more scarce, people have needed to get creative and become more efficient about how we farm, using less land to produce more crops and increasing the productivity and yield of those farmed acres. Worldwide, agriculture is a $5 trillion industry, and now the industry is turning to AI technologies to help yield healthier […]

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Dreaded Banana-Infecting Fungus Discovers in Latin America

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By Solomon Adekola   The pathogenic fungus Fusarium wilt Tropical Race 4 (TR4), already widespread on several other continents, has been found for the first time infecting banana plants in Latin America, researchers confirmed earlier in the month August. Fungicides are ineffective against the disease, and observers have long feared its incursion into the world’s top banana-producing region. Randy Ploetz, a plant pathologist at the University of Florida in Homestead said that the epidemics develop slowly, so the [spread of TR4] will take some time. But eventually, it will not be possible to produce Cavendish [banana variety] for international trade. […]

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AGRICULTURAL SAFETY IN THE 21ST CENTURY WORLD

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By Solomon Adekola   Agriculture, which has high rates of fatalities and serious injuries, ranks among the most dangerous professions in the United States. In Nigeria, greenhouse farming technology has turned into technology to increase food production because of unpredictable weather conditions.   Things to be considered for the safety of our farm product 1. Soils are a multifaceted and dynamic natural resource that supports plant growth and affect water and air quality. Scientists have found that in-depth research is needed to unravel the complex nature of soils as well as their impact on Earth’s ecosystems. 2. Freshwater is so […]

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INVESTING IN FARMKONNECT’S GREENHOUSE PROJECT

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Solomon Adekola A greenhouse is a building with glass sides and a glass roof in which plants that need protection from or are sensitive to weather are grown. In the United States and in most countries of the world, you can successfully start your own greenhouse farm and grow the business into an international venture. Several things occur when you decide not to invest your money on something profitable. Different things happened when you can’t make the right choice of investing your money on something great. Investing your money on a great and profitable business can turn your money to […]

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Climate-Smart Agriculture: Farmkonnect’s Approach to Climate change and Global food crisis

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For several decades Climate change has stood out as an albatross that humanity invariably contends with. Perpetually abetting more droughts, flooding, extreme weather conditions among other ecological and socio-economic problems, climate change is having serious adverse effects on farmers, especially in the peripheral parts of the globe. In Africa Climate change is already producing a surge in the frequency and intensity of droughts that is damaging production of the continents most important crop (maize) while increased flooding in South Asia is endangering rice harvests that sustain millions of lives. Countries like Rwanda, Ghana and Ethiopia are at risk of experiencing […]

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