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Boosting food production via Adopted Village for Smart Agriculture Initiative

By Ijeoma Olorunfemi In 2019, the National Information Technology Development Agency, (NITDA), initiated the National Adopted Village for Smart Agriculture (NAVSA) initiative. NAVSA is an ecosystem-driven digital platform, envisioned for the transformation of the agricultural sector. It is envisaged that the programme would assist the farmers and other stakeholders in the agricultural ecosystem to navigate the journey across the sector value chain, involving farm production and management of their produce. The main thrust of the programme is the integration of digital technologies and innovations to improve productivity and the income of farmers and other ecosystem players. At the lunch of the pilot phase of NAVSA in 2020 in Jigawa, the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami said that “the way agriculture is practised needs to be modernised and transformed to encourage young talents to set up agriculture enterprises and position agriculture as a major

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