kiakia mobile app is an agronomy support app that provides farmers and clients information to enables them make informed choices.
Agriculture is the largest employer of labour in Nigeria and across Africa. The sector engages about 60% of the Nigerian population but less than a quarter of these farmers (both Crop and Livestock farmers) adequately benefits from their labour and enterprises. Most of the farmers are shortchanged due to the activities of middlemen, information such as whether reports, floods/rainfall patterns, planting/harvest seasons, new farming techniques, current market prices of products, access to farm inputs: fertilizer and improved seeds are NOT readily available and accessible by farmers their clients or the cottage industries that requires the farm produces for their uses.
Owing to fact that most farming communities across Nigeria are connected to mobile networks, kiakia mobile app provides support to these farmers by disseminating vital market information and building linkages with their clients or the cottage industries that requires these agricultural produces for their production, and this enable both farmers and clients to make informed choices and maximize profit. Kiakia mobile app which is linked to agricultural research and metrology centres in Nigeria is designed to have simple features such as Interactive Voice Response (IVR)/USSD Code to allow farmers whom are not too literate access any needed information on the platform.
Through their mobile phones, farmers and their clients can download the kiakia agronomy mobile app on their phones or use the IVR/USSD features to access e-agricultural extension services, whether reports, floods/rainfall patterns, planting/harvest seasons, new farming techniques, current market prices of products, access to farm inputs: fertilizer and improved seeds, and place orders for supplies. This mobile app gives farmers and their clients readily available information at their fingertips to enable them make informed choices and better their businesses. Because this mobile app is linked to major market distributors and cottage industries, farmers are able to push their produce out for sale to the right buyers and at the right prices.
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