How can farmer’s organizations benefit from ICTs application to agriculture? Theo de Jager,...

How can farmer’s organizations benefit from ICTs application to agriculture?

Theo de Jager, President: Pan African Famers Organisation

President: Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions (SACAU)

ICT's: An integral part of our dreamto revolutionize agriculture

on the African continent

What is it for farmers?

A management tool:

The right information

At the right time

At the right place

To empower me to make an informed decision

What's it for farmers?

MarketsPrices

FinanceMechanizationFuel/Fertilizer

Seeds/ChemicalsInfrastructure

Technical ExtensionProductionTransportWeather

Geo-spacial

So what?

What should I doNOW

to limit my riskand maximise

my profit?

Automatic feedback& recycling into

the system

Big Data

Templates on land, production, financials, HR, seed, fertilizer, ect

Who should own it?

Government?Business?

Farmer Organisations?

PPP!

Benefit?

Big money in big dataOnly farmers can propagate it

The FO is the field on which it is propagatedOpportunity to financially sustain FO's

Need for strengthening FO'sNeed for capacity building, governance

Grabbing the future!