{"id":2311,"date":"2019-05-13T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T12:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:17","slug":"smart-tech-the-new-tool-for-african-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/13\/smart-tech-the-new-tool-for-african-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart tech the new tool for African farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By AFP<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture in Africa must be\nintensified sustainably so as to meet the growing <a href=\"https:\/\/esa.un.org\/unpd\/wpp\/Publications\/Files\/WPP2017_KeyFindings.pdf\">population<\/a> which is projected to reach 2.25 billion by 2050. Agriculture\nin sub-Saharan Africa may have the image of relentless toil and low\nproductivity, but experts say new tech is changing the picture. Farmers, crop\nbuyers and other sector professionals have started to harness smart gadgets and\ncrunch numbers to improve productivity, reduce costs and smooth out wrinkles in\nthe markets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/ea\/Smart-tech-the-new-tool-for-African-farmers\/4552908-5102618-ef95daz\/index.html\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AFP Agriculture in Africa must be intensified sustainably so as to meet the growing population which is projected to reach 2.25 billion by 2050. Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa may&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}