Agro Hub Nigeria

With an estimated income of more than $100 billionannually, agriculture remains Africa’s largest economic sector. Agricultural production in Africa continues to increase graduallyand is almost at par with South America. However, as Africans become more tech savvy, innovationsare on the rise as technology experts turn their attention to creating mobile solutions for the modern farmer. Analysis have shown that by 2025 half of Africa’s population will have internet access with about 360 million smartphones on the continent. Also based on their estimation, internet technology could increase annual agricultural productivity in Africa by $3 billion per annum.Throughout the continent, farmers, NGOs and scientists are developing solutions to boost agriculture and make the business of farming less labour intensive. Here are some of theapps that seek to solve these problems, while also changing the face of agriculture within Africa. 1.i-cow Created by a Kenyan farmer, this SMSand voice only mob

$56 billion has been approved by  The Board of African Development Bank, AfDB, to scale up industrialisation in Nigeria and other African countries on the content over the next ten years under its Industrialisation Strategy for Africa 2016-2025. The bank in a statement stated: “The Strategy, approved by the Board, represents a roadmap for implementing priority programs to scale up the industrial transformation of Africa. “It addresses key issues such as: (i) Why we need to industrialise Africa; (ii) What it will take to industrialise Africa; and (iii) How AfDB will help to industrialise Africa. “In designing the strategy, the Bank underscored the vital roles that industrialisation plays in development as it leverages all the value chains of economic activity ranging from raw materials to finished products. It catalyzes productivity by introducing new equipment and new techniques, increases the capabilities of the workforce, and diffuses these improvements into the

Africa spends $35 billion a year on food importation says the President of  International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Mr Kanayo Nwanze says This is contained in a statement issued by the IFAD and made available to the press in Abuja. According to the statement Nwanze made  the disclosure at the opening of a three-day African Union-European Union Conference of Ministers of Agriculture, tagged: “Investing in a Food Secure Future.’’ The conference, which was hosted  the Government of The Netherlands,  discussed  how to deepen cooperation between Africa and Europe to mutually invest in food and nutrition security. Nwanze said that investing more in Africa’s rural areas will stem the flow of economic migrants and minimize the acts of desperation that makes the continent’s newspaper headlines. “People are leaving the rural areas of Africa because they can’t find jobs or feed their families and the ripple effects are felt here in Europe. “The irony is that Africa spends $