Centuries ago, before the advent and
large-scale adoption of mechanized farming, the world depended on tedious
manual labor for agricultural processes. Food production was unsurprisingly limited in the
country, and with a growing population in Nigeria, scarcities were projected
to occur. Today, however, against the backdrop of the technological revolution,
farmers have switched to a more mechanized system of operations and use of agric
friendly application, and in so doing effectively laid to rest the limitations
of the past. Technology now forms the bedrock of modern agricultural practices,
and as it continues to evolve, the agricultural sector is also evolving to
exploit nascent efficiencies.
Nigeria is not producing
enough of what we eat and not exporting enough to earn foreign exchange, with
these in mind the government is taking a sharp turn towards diversifying the
economy from oil to farming by encouraging more agricultural activities in the
country. At commodity.ng we are driven by great passion to redefine the whole
sector by use of technology friendly methods to reduce extortion of
agricultural producers by market forces and middlemen within and outside the
country.
With every wave of technological advancement,
agricultural innovators like commodity.ng develop even more novel and practical
solutions to existing agricultural challenges. The team in commodity.ng are
very keen to coming up with innovative solutions to help agricultural stakeholders
across the country. One might be wondering just how commodity.ng’s innovation
has affected agriculture in Nigeria.
General
overview of commodity.ng and its tools.
Commodity.ng, a product of Mubatek Enterprise is a Nigerian
online company that aim to improve the agricultural value chain in Nigeria by
achieving unification of prices on agricultural commodities across the country,
specializing in the exchange and sale of commodities through e-commerce,
conveys live commodities price updates, publish general news about those
commodities and engage in agricultural research to help improve the produce of
farmers in Nigeria. It began operations in 2018, commodity.ng uses the local
standard rate of exchange which are Mudu, Kilogram, bowl, Paint Bucket, Bag
amongst others to quantify the commodities on its dashboard.
Knowing how much to sell
and how much to buy agricultural commodities is as essential as producing those
commodities themselves, this factor determines whether more people will be
enthusiastic to invest in agriculture or not. Commodity.ng is working towards
providing veritable platforms for the citizenry to invest in agriculture by
ensuring all stakeholders are treated fairly. We believe farmers need to receive
the right information at the right time in order to plan their cultivation
well, from the clearing of land to the actual harvest and sale of farm
products. We also invest in research and other activities to help empower
farmers with the technical know-how to help them increase their produce by
engaging them with new technological innovations they can adopt through our
live & daily updated and reliable news and articles.
Commodity.ng seeks to use
these local rates to promote Nigerian Commodities, thereby shielding the local
Nigerian trader from direct negative foreign influence at the same time
co-relating both international rates and local rates to get a cohesion in favor
of both market. Commodity.ng has an array of correspondence spread in all parts
of the country that helps in collecting the data necessary for running the
platform.
Mission
Statements
Our operations stems from
our Missions, which is durable. It states our purpose as an entity and function
as the metric which we weigh our operations. The missions are…
·
Enhance uniformity and bring to the spotlight
the prices of commodities throughout the country
·
Protect the interest of all stakeholders
involved in the production and consumption of agricultural products
·
To create a platform in which commodities can
be exchanged online to the Nigeria market which will solve the problem of
knowing where to buy, how much to buy and how to transport commodities across
the country
·
To improve agriculture in Nigeria by applying
advancements in research and technology to the sector through Offering simple
state of the art technological innovations that will teach local farmers the
most cost effective way to yield better result.
Vision
Our vision guides every facet of our
operations by stating our goal to help us maintain continuous growth. Our
vision is to be an effective commodity data collection and exchange platform
that will provide the most close to accurate data about commodities in Nigeria
and to also be a responsible organization that helps in enhancing positive
change.
Team
Over some couple of months,
our family have grown from just four founders to about 20 amazing visionaries
all working towards achieving the objective and purpose of this platform.
Commodity.ng has correspondents all across the 6 Geo-political zones in the
country who feed us with all the information required for the smooth running of
this establishment. We engage our team members in extensive training to help
broaden our horizon in harnessing more creative ways of improving agriculture
in the country.
Tools
Amongst the range of new technologies that
the agro tech company is set to launch which will help in de-risking agriculture
across Nigeria. The team has launched its user friendly website that is fused
with so many functionalities all aimed to ease farming for all stake holders in
the country. The website has an up to date live prices feature that will show
case prices of commodities across the country. The website will also house the
first agricultural commodities e commerce platform that will be selling commodities
at a cheaper rate compared to how it is sold in the maket, the e commerce
platform will have a finalization swift delivery feature that will deliver
those commodities to its users.
Additionally the website will show case live
news as its break about the sector in the country and will have a section meant
for outcome of research facilities, these researches is been conducted by well qualified
individual that majored in different segment of the sector. Furthermore, the
website will create an avenue for farmers in the country to network by sharing
their problems and getting solutions from qualified persons and other members
of the public. These and so many other functionalities whioch you can visible
testify to are all available on the website.
The team reported that the mobile app they
are building will be its selling point. The application will house all the
functionalities of the website and have some unique features that will uniquely
improve the way farmers do things in the country.
For the sake of privacy and copyright issues,
the team restricted the information about the application until it is launched.
COMMODITY.NG
AND THE NIGERIAN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR.
Our Technology is giving
local, rural farmers A Fighting Chance
In Nigeria -- where unchecked
desertification, crop pests and
diseases and a persistent
lack of infrastructure continue to threaten agriculture – Our resarch
facilitated technology is providing a much-needed lifeline to remedy the
situation. Farmers in Nigeria are being sensitized on the internet of things
through our platform (www.commodity.ng) and are conversely using these
technologies to better their production and distribution capabilities.
We are helping to improve
the Scalability of Agriculture
So many problems within the sector has led
the team in coming up with more sophisticated and efficient methods of
undertaking agricultural practices. Mechanized farming is all but standard in
developed nations, and now with significant advancements in the field of
robotics and sensing technologies, robots are being incorporated into the farm
setting. The team is planning to bring down a functional unit of
such a robotic harvester capable of harvesting one strawberry every two seconds
(compared to humans, who pick 15-20 per minute) to the country.
Our
technology is revolutionizing the sector in the country.
In the past, farmers lived in close proximity
to the consumers (buyers) of their products. Today, against the backdrop
of globalization, some farm produce is cultivated thousands of miles away from
where it is consumed. For instance, most of the world’s coffee is produced
in Brazil and Vietnam; however, coffee users enjoy the product all
over the world. The logistics and technicalities involved in making this
happen are possible by virtue of our website which we integrated into the agriculture
sector of the country. Our planned High-tech
storage facilities now mean farm produce can be stored for more
extended periods, or if the need is for an indefinite period, by preprocessing.
Aside from propagating productivity and profitability, these improved storage
mechanisms cut down wastage, something that was formerly commonplace in the
sector.
The
team at commodity.ng are very optimistic and believe they have the right intellect
and will power to come up with more innovations that will help to improve the
sectors and the overall activities of everyone involved in the sector.
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