Wednesday 26 August 2015

Farmers News - Armajaro unveils centres to boost farming

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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