Agriculture, Innovation and Technology for Sustainable Development Course

Date Format Fees  
23 Jan - 26 Jan, 2024 Classroom ₦350,000 Register
19 Jun - 21 Jun, 2024 Classroom ₦350,000 Register
02 Oct - 04 Oct, 2024 Classroom ₦350,000 Register
23 Jan - 26 Jan, 2024 Classroom ₦350,000 Register
23 Jan - 26 Jan, 2024 Classroom ₦350,000 Register

Event Details

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Obtain skills on ICT implementation in agriculture
  • Lean the importance of integration of ICT in agribusiness
  • Identify current ICT trends in relation to agriculture
  • Develop, utilize, and evaluate components of ICT of agricultural programs
  • Create partnerships between public and private sectors to encourage the use of ICT in agriculture
  • Identify ICT importance in farm production, management of inventory, marketing and extension services
  • Identify gender skills in development of ICT in agriculture

 

CONTENT

  • Introduction to ICT in development of agriculture
  • Accessibility and Affordability of ICT in rural areas
  • Technologies affecting agriculture and rural development
  • Gender and ICT agricultural development
  • Farm production through ICT
  • ICTs as enablers of agricultural innovation systems
  • Financial services through ICT for smallholders
  • ICT application use in agricultural organizations
  • Agricultural extension through ICT
  • ICT and marketing agriculture
  • Agricultural risk management using ICT applications
  • Role of ICT in improving food security
  • Role of ICT in the inclusion of smallholders in agricultural supply chain
  • Role of ICT in promoting rural governance, participation by citizens and organizations in agriculture
  • Administration and management of land through ICT
  • ICT an inventory management
  • Application of GIS an RS in agriculture

 

FOR WHOM

This course target professions in the agricultural extension sector including decision makers.

 

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.

  • Venue

    Alpha Partners Professional Training Conference Centre. 200, Muritala Mohammed Way (3rd Floor), Yaba Lagos.

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