Armajaro Nigeria Limited, a 100 per cent subsidiary of ECOM
Agrotrade Limited, London, said it had introduced what it called Village
Resource Centres in some schools in Ekiti, Ondo and Oyo states to improve the
quality of life of whole farming communities through community infrastructure
projects.
The company said in a statement that the VRCs were introduced in
rural schools without access to Information Technology facilities and also to
complement the existing ones.
According to it, this project is being undertaken in AUD Grammar
School, Ikole Ekiti; Akinluse High School, Ise Ekiti; Orija High School, Emure
Ekiti; Ekamarun Anglican Grammar School, Ifon, Ondo State; Word of Faith College,
Arimogija, Ondo, and Oyo State School of Science, Idere, Oyo.
“The application of Information and Communications Technology in
agriculture is getting increasingly important. Ever since people have been
growing crops, farmers have sought information from one another but updated
information that allows the farmers to cope with and even benefit from changes
in conditions of farming is still missing.
“Providing this knowledge can be challenging, therefore, the
recent improvement in information channelling in villages for example through
the provision of the Village Resource Centre, has helped in facing some of
these challenges,” said ANL.
According to the company, one of the objectives of the VRC is to
generate advisories on agriculture, land and water management to better utilise
the available resources and to mitigate the negative impacts.
“This aims mainly at maximising the economic output from the
available resources and also to enable better productivity.
“Village Resource Centre will assist in ensuring greater access
to information on land,water, soil etc so as to educate and empower the local
communities for greater conservation and sustainable utilisation of these
resources.”
The company said the accessibility to information would improve
the capability of the rural communities for better development planning and
ensure equitable bargaining power in a skewed social system.
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