More than 60 stakeholders in the agricultural value chain in the five Northern Regions have participated in a day’s training workshop on e-agricultural technology.
The training, organised by Agrospectrum Limited, a Non-governmental Organisation based in the Northern Region, was to build the capacity of the stakeholders in E-Agric technology as well as deepen their knowledge in the use of agricultural technology.
It was also to help them leverage broad spectrums technological infrastructure to provide solutions for the agricultural value chain as well as grow influence in mobile technology on the continent.
The participants were drawn from the Upper East, West, North East, Savannah and Northern Regions.
Addressing the participants at the training, the General Manager of the Agro Spectrum, Mr Castro Antwi –Danso, said the ‘E-Agric’ which had evolved into Agro-spectrum remained committed to improving incomes of agricultural value actors by empowering them.
He said the training was dedicated to transforming agriculture paradigms and empowering the stakeholders in the value chain through their services and innovation solutions.
“We create an inclusive marketplace that caters to the needs of farmers, government and service providers to solve challenges in the sector,” he added
He stated that the training was to facilitate a seamless linkage between farmers and markets, and to provide support service for farmer’s well-being through leveraging technology for informed decisions-making, promote financial inclusion and access to inputs.
Furthermore, Mr Danso said the Agrospectrum was the main technology partner of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture for the Planting for Food and Jobs Programme.
He noted that the technology helped create the first national database of farmers in Ghana for the Ministry of Agriculture.
He added that the product was used to biometrically profile 1.6 farmers as well as recorded spatial details of all farmlands of theses farmers across the five regions of the north in the country.
The General Manager also added that they provide climate smart information via voice and SMS to farmers across the country.
He said the service also use to send weather information and agronomic advice via voice in local language to farmers based on their language preferences to assist farmers in crop production.
Mr Danso however, appealed to the stakeholders to deploy the knowledge they have acquired in the training for their farming activities.
Mr Abdul Mumin Saddiqu, Maltiti Agro processing limited, on his part thanked the organisers for the training, and assured them that they would use the knowledge acquired appropriately.
Agrospectrum aimed to provide smallholders farmer with access to inputs and finance through their virtual marketplace, while driving business for input dealers and financial service providers.
FROM YAHAYA NUHU NADAA, TAMALE
