Smart agriculture
A smart farm is not a farm with more equipment on it. It is a farm where water, seed and labour go where the data says they will return most, and where the harvest reaches both the household's own table and a market that will pay for the surplus.
Aligned to
SDG 2: Zero hunger
What this involves
Three things this area of work actually consists of
Food security through innovation, deploying data-driven farming technology to optimise resource use, raise yields and build profitable, climate-smart agricultural systems.
Climate-smart technique
Training in the practice that makes a plot resilient: efficient irrigation, soil management, and crop choice matched to a shifting season.
Inputs and equipment
Supplying the planting materials and water infrastructure a group needs to start, alongside the training that keeps them productive.
Route to market
Working with farming groups so surplus becomes income rather than waste, and the next season is funded by the last.
On the record
Smart gardening at Sabon Gari
A smart gardening farm established with women's groups in Mubi North, producing cucumber, maize and vegetables on plots designed for efficient water use. The programme paired planting inputs with training in climate-smart technique, and closed with harvest going to household nutrition and local market sale.
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