KWARA FARMERS TO UNDERGO TRAINING ON CLIMATE CHANGE TECHNOLOGY 08-11-23
By Sadiq Aminu Local farmers in Kwara State are to be trained on how to use new technology to fight climate change.
The Project Team Lead, Digital Solutions Project at Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Chris Adebayo made this known at the opening of a two-day workshop titled: Promoting Digital Solutions for Farmers in Remote Communities to Adapt to Climate Change.
Adebayo explained that the aim of the workshop was to make local farmers more competitive with digital solutions to enhance their capacity and address the challenges of climate change which is negatively affecting their farm products.
“We have various forms of digital solutions; internet solutions that use very little electricity. We have to make sure that these solutions get to the rural areas.
“This seminal is to discuss some of those challenges and to find out how some of them can be made available to the farmers at a cost they can afford.”
Earlier, the Host and Coordinator of the initiative at Al-Hikmah, University, Dr. Tajudeen Ajala, said that the digital solutions is feasible as the workshop would discuss some of the challenges and strategize how the solutions can be made available to farmers at affordable cost, to make farmers competitive and more productive.
Dr Ajala stressed that the programme came with collaboration between the Federal Government and European Union assistance in the area of digitalization, higher education and agriculture.