I think there is not adequate understanding of the concept of ICT in agriculture yet in the ACP countries. So we need more education. Our policy makers seem to be grappling with basic agricultural policies, that I think have been too old and not increasing productivity. We need a shift, we need to do more research to ensure productivity is increased in terms of increase in yield per hectare.  Secondly, there is no adequate participation, in most cases, of the beneficiaries of these policies in its formulation. So we need to increased consultation with all stakeholders from research - input providers - producers(farmers) - processors (manufacturers) - end users/consumers. Some basic infrastructure to support ICT in some places are inadequate, so many ACP countries need Private Public Participation to ensure goals of these policies are achieved.
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e-agricultural policy should target:1 Networking of input providers (agrodealers) to farmers through mapping of agrodealers to farmers in their areas; 2.Networking of producers (farmers) to manufacturers and processors; and 3. networking of processors and retailers.  This will require linking of databases of agro-dealers, farmers, processors and retailers and developling a platform for communicating especially through cellphones, village cafe or farmers e-kiosks.  Because, the value chain concept is market driven, the tendency to have manufacturers support e-extension to drive productivity could be high.

Basically, agricultural extension delivery is the development of good agricultural practices, market and input informations into packages for agricultural extension agents to delivery to farmers in different value chains, it does not work in isolation to agricultural research. it is a knowledge transfer from research to farmers and now with the value chain approach it moves further down to processing, to kitchen, to market, to tables, etc..

Extension agents need mobility, capacity building coordination and remuneration . Extension agents involvement in agriculture should be driven from the community, that is the bottom approach of CDD. Local institutions and private organizations should be involved. Most importantly extension agents can be trained to offer paid services.

On the value chain strategies in e-agriculture, Nigeria is operating the e-wallet system for input delivery known as GES. It can be expanded to include GAP, which some practitioners like myself are thinking of developing, which include developing EA-Farmers' link database to be hosted on a web portal. EA means extension agents.