Entrepreneur launches online agric system
Monday, December 07, 2015
Thato Supang.PIC: KENNEDY RAMOKONE
The online platform, known as Agricultural Marketing and Early Warning Information (AMEWI) will provide information that farmers normally travel to agricultural offices to obtain. Supang said the platform would also link agriculture stakeholders to, among other things, markets, innovative ways of farming and suppliers. The online system will also provide a meteorological service.
“Youth should be seen as a value not a burden because they can accelerate economic, an to some extent, agricultural growth,” she said.
He is speaking of a lifetime of trust broken, a belief that their vigilance, their mephato patrols, their ancestral knowledge of the land would keep disaster at bay.That trust now lies trampled by a virus no elder remembers ever seeing. Yet, hidden in the despair is a quiet, persistent helper that must not be abandoned: Artificial Intelligence or AI.We are not talking about cold machines replacing the warmth of community effort. The farmers...