Technology

Agriculture 4.0 – The Future Of Farming Technology

A number of global trends are influencing food security, poverty, and the overall sustainability of food and agricultural systems.
The World Government Summit launched a report called Agriculture 4.0 – The Future Of Farming Technology, in collaboration with Oliver Wyman for the 2018 edition of the international event. The report addresses the four main developments placing pressure on...

Top 5 Technologies that aid Agriculture

Just as every sector has benefited from the impact of technology, so has agriculture. Farmers depend on information technology for many things; not just in managing farm operations. In fact, information technology has changed the way in which farmers manage crops and livestock. To sum up, such e-Agriculture is a new phenomenon, is here to stay, and is one that is dramatically changing...

Innovation to help manage beehives on mobile phone

Two university students have come up with an app dubbed Ibees that helps farmers detect problems within the hives in real-time.
Jackline Tum and Clinton Odour who are Electrical and Electronic Engineering students at Dedan Kimathi Univesity of Technology came up with the innovation in February 2021. They say they were driven by the need to take care of bees given their importance in food...

Tech Innovations in Farming for Sustainable Future

By Eric Hamilton
Apart from producing food, farmers also protect natural resources – soil, water, and biodiversity. They are also innovators. Since the inception of agriculture, farmers have had to change, adapt and create new ways of cultivating crops, coping with difficult terrain, and enduring extreme climatic conditions and ag weather events. Currently, agriculture is the...

Game-changing Tech Will Digitize Farming And Increase Sustainability

The image of the rugged Israeli farmer tending to the fields, shaking trees by hand to force olives and apples and grapes to drop, is both iconic and romantic.
It’s also entirely outdated.
Most farms in the Western world — including Israel — are more akin to mechanized outdoor factories than to the manual labor-intensive kibbutz fields of yore.
All that technology represented an opportunity...

Farmers Baseline Survey

Limasmart Team Lead Elphas begun our farmers baseline surveys earlier this year. The process is ongoing and we intend to capture the northern parts of Kakamega county, concentrating mostly around Lugari and Likuyani sub-counties as well as parts of central and southern Kakamega namely Lurambi, Shinyalu and Mumias.

To partake in the survey online kindly click here.
The survey is open to both...

FAO to train farmers on KIAMIS digital platform

Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) has embarked on a sensitization program on a new digital platform that will be used by farmers to acquire farm inputs and mechanization services at subsidized costs.
The Kenya Integrated Agriculture Management Information System (KIAMIS) is a farmer data and digitalization platform to support the Government’s Agricultural Transformation.
Speaking in...

Agribusiness financier eyes small scale farmers with Sh3bn loan

Micro Enterprises Support Programme Trust (MESPT) will be extending Sh3 billion loan to over 50,000 small scale farmers to strengthen food production and create more jobs in the agriculture sector.
MESPT has partnered with donors such as the Danish government and the European Union to support farmers access to the funds for their agricultural activities.
Ms Rebecca Amukhoye, MESPT chief...

GreenForges digs deep to farm underground

Vertical farms usually look up. Aerofarms, Plenty, Gotham Greens — these companies are trying to revolutionize agriculture by looking toward the sky, with tall warehouses full of growing equipment extending upward. But Philippe Labrie is looking down. Labrie is the CEO and founder of the pre-seed startup GreenForges, an underground farming company founded in 2019 looking to take vertical...

Amazon, Microsoft Swoop In on $24 Billion India Farm-Data Trove

By Shruti Srivastava
Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. are among technology giants lining up to harness data from India’s farmers in an ambitious government-led productivity drive aimed at transforming an outmoded agricultural industry.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s administration, which is seeking to ensure food security in the world’s second-most populous nation, has...