meshack Oriama
| Organization type | University |
|---|---|
| Country | Kenya |
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Forum Forum ICTs for Resilience
Do you have concrete examples of successful use of ICTs in resilience? (November 30th)
Submitted by meshack Oriama on Thu, 12/08/2016 - 19:29
Very true and the fact that there is a disconnect of extension service providers and rural access due to an assumption of the ability to refer online should not be ignored as it is here in Kenya.
Forum Forum: 2013 CTA ICT OBSERVATORY “Strengthening e-Agriculture Strategies in ACP Countries”
Question 1 (opens 25 Feb.)
Submitted by meshack Oriama on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 21:24
true true, " information asymmetry" in agricultural development can be a looked at if governments focused more on available resources and made us of the available cards to play. unfortunately we view
agriculture more on the "fork" side rather than "farm" and therefore alot is lost from the farm side and less is consumed in the end.
example: poultry farming in Kenya especially in the eastern region where it was mostly practiced by women for commercial purposes, a local radio staion normally has a program on how to rare the bords and what to do incase of emergencies such as diseases
information on the spread of disease can easily enable farmers control the damages that can happen if such information is withheld.
another worry is that most facilities are just to expensive for farmers to access yet the facilities can help in the farm management.
example "can't farmers use SAP in there farm system?
agriculture more on the "fork" side rather than "farm" and therefore alot is lost from the farm side and less is consumed in the end.
example: poultry farming in Kenya especially in the eastern region where it was mostly practiced by women for commercial purposes, a local radio staion normally has a program on how to rare the bords and what to do incase of emergencies such as diseases
information on the spread of disease can easily enable farmers control the damages that can happen if such information is withheld.
another worry is that most facilities are just to expensive for farmers to access yet the facilities can help in the farm management.
example "can't farmers use SAP in there farm system?
Submitted by meshack Oriama on Thu, 02/28/2013 - 19:19
we mostly ignore and almost do not recognize the contributions and benefits of e agriculture because we normally look at it from the consumption or rather output point of view, i think if we look at e agriculture as an input / enabler for agriculture then we may see the whole lot of the benefits. the problem with society(most farmer especially those who practice subsistence or self suffiency farming) is that they tend to ignore on the efficience in operation that ICT intergrated farming systems can bring. Fact is that such systems are mostly found in the intensive system in the peri urban farming. we need governments to make it known that farmers can benefit from having there system inergrated in ICT example:
- record handling
- farm accounting systems
- there enterprise/farm resource management system in this case the farm system