Agriculture is the largest employer in the world, providing livelihoods for the majority of Africa’s poorest people. As the backbone of many economies in Africa, agricultural development becomes synonymous with global development. Research and development efforts to improve agriculture have been ongoing for nearly a century, but with new and ever-changing global challenges, agriculturists need to be equipped with the right information to tackle those challenges.
Also, with the high rate of unemployment among African youth, states need to encourage more young people to participate in Agriculture. Through advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs), most of the information needed is available on the internet. But the sheer volume and uncertainty about accuracy makes getting correct and credible information very difficult. With the adotion of web portals, Wing Farm aims to resolve this issues. We specifically aim to design a single access point to information collected from diverse sources.
We aim to train 500 youth on how to use the numerous resources and tools available to access agricultural extension and advisory services.
In the context of agricultural extension and advisory services (EAS), there are two predominant types of portals – those providing technical and market knowledge to end users at the grassroots level, and those helping with the capacity development of extension personnel.
