Farmers Review Africa July/Aug 2016 | Page 26

Market Information Precision farmingthe way to go for Africa July - August 2016 It is not wise and sustainable to farming solutions for Africa: the next continue practising conventional driver for African agriculture” on 13 July a g r i c u l t u ra l m e t h o d s , s u c h a s 2016, recommended farmers to use soil ploughing and loosening the soil management techniques such as before planting as it puts stress on conservation agriculture to increase land resources and is worsened by productivity as that reduces soil effects of climate change, says global disturbance, permanent soil cover and agricultural experts who convened in crop rotation. Brussels, Belgium, last week. One of the critical aspects of precision The meeting brought together farming is to make technology available participants from the ACP-EU to small-scale producers and help them (Caribbean and Pacific countries and to manage their farms more efficiently. the European Union) technical centre Precision agriculture (PA) or satellite for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation farming or site specific crop (CTA), the European Commission, the management (SSCM) is a farming EU Presidency, the ACP Group, management concept based on Concord, and other partners on key observing, measuring and responding issues and challenges for rural to inter- and intra-field variability in development in the context of EU-ACP crops. cooperation. African farmers, machinery company The participants, who attended the representatives with field experience as meeting titled “Affordable smart well as experts from international [26]FARMERS REVIEW AFRICA www.farmersreviewafrica.com