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Changing the Agri Landscape in Africa

April 22, 2019

Africa is an agri lover’s dream with abundant uncultivated arable land roughly over half the global total; tropical climates that permit long growing seasons; young labor force and an expanding population that provides a ready market for the product consumption. Agricultural productivity remains far from developed world standards. Over 90% of agriculture depends on rainfall, with no artificial irrigation aid Africa with more than 60% of its population living in the rural areas and depends on agriculture, by and large, expecting for the much-needed breakthrough in the present state. The continent with 1.166 billion people has more than 32% of its dependency for GDP that comes from the agriculture sector is struggling to revamp it modern ways of farming, technology and infrastructure. However, African countries are yet to explore the opportunities to ensure sustainable food security and production. Technology can disrupt the way African agriculture operates Exploring Interne...

Flowers are one of the most beautiful natural forms out there. Flowers are a part of the lifecycle of fruit and a multitude of plants bear them. Some flowers, because of their visual appeal flowers are considered very high-value commodities and are traded locally and globally across the world every day. As important as it is to ensure that the right quality flowers are grown in abundance in a farmer’s land, it is equally important to ensure that they are handled the way they are supposed to be. This post is about managing cut flowers like Rose, Gerbera, Chrysanthemum, Orchids etc. after they are harvested to ensure maximum post-harvest life of flowers. While it is important to manage each flower differently as they may have different needs, the basic principle behind managing their shelf life pretty much remains the same for all of them. For the purposes of this post, it must be noted that the life of a flower after it is harvested simply means the timespan until which the flowers ov...