DIGITISING AGRICULTURE FOR SMALLHOLDER FARMERS WILL BOOST PRODUCTIVITY, INCREASE NIGERIA’S GDP, SAYS DG NITDA
The Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa has said digitising the agricultural sector in all its processes for smallholder farmers by the government would not only boost productivity but increase the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by $67 billion. Inuwa disclosed this at the Policy Dialogue session in collaboration with the Office of the Presidency, the Federal Ministry of Agriculture & Food Security, and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) at the Barcelona Hotel, Abuja. According to him, “With the smallholder farmers producing...