By 2050 the global population is estimated to rise to 10 billion, and to feed ourselves we will need to greatly increase food production, but how can we do this in a sustainable way that doesn’t harm the environment? Farms have been at the forefront of new ideas ever since agriculture began and, ...

Digitising the agricultural sector enables farmers to enhance their business and profitability while opening possibilities to the benefits of next generation technology. In May 2020, Vodacom launched 5G services in South Africa, making use of an assigned temporary spectrum during the COVID-19 ...

Mustapha Diyaol-Haqq was raised in Old Tafo, in the Ashanti Region, Ghana. He is a Software Developer and a Code Instructor at Ghana Code Club, where he teaches children and adults in Ghana the fundamentals of Computer Science. As a Content Developer for Ghana Code Club, Mustapha worked to produce ...

Jacques Taylor, Managing Director for John Deere Sub-Saharan Africa and Belinda Louw, Director of Peritum signing an agreement that the top five achievers on the Plant Production Diploma will be offered an all-expenses-paid John Deere induction following the completion of their Diploma programme ...

Agri-firms join innovative South African data platform set to transform South African farming  John Deere has developed an innovative private permission-based platform that allows third-party suppliers of agricultural services to use farm data to help farmers make decisions better. Blended with ...

The cumulative view provided by the confluence of machine learning and decision making in conjunction with third-party data all hosted in the cloud, has given rise to artificial intelligence (AI) in agriculture. The ability of agricultural equipment to think, predict and even advise farmers ...

Drone technology is being used to collect and analyse data, and monitor irrigated areas, combat pests At a special event highlighting the partnership between the African Development Bank and Korea held on the sidelines of the Bank’s Annual Meetings, the role of drone technology to boost food ...

Agriculture around the world has been gaining productivity thanks to technologies aimed at increasing production without expanding the land. And with the arrival of Artificial Intelligence in agriculture there is an expectation that growth will be even faster and less costly. One of the areas ...

By Adil El Youssefi, CEO Liquid Telecom Kenya Artificial intelligence offers the promise of transforming agriculture in ways that could save over 815 million people, or 11% of the world’s population, from hunger: most especially in Africa, where the sector accounts for 32% of GDP and two-thirds of ...