Agric commodity leaders promise better home schools feeding with database technology

A new Commodity Leaders Empowerment Network (CLEN) has joined forces to ensure better statutory feeding programs, utilizing efficient database technology to enhance accountability and sustainable food production among small-scale farmers.

The new concerned agricutural stakeholders who are particular about effective collaboration with Government spending on home feeding programs for public primaries, unity secondary schools, Internally Displaced Persons ( IDPs), prisoners and the Almagaris schools pointed they were ready to take upon themselves as private entity the modern ways of food productivity with the use of efficient technology and administration of inputs cum agricultural services with market Linkage to rural farmers at local agro business hubs through data capturing.

The executives of the new pressure group, led by Mallam Bukar Jubril, National President, Sunflower Growers, Processors, and Marketers Association of Nigeria were yesterday handed power by the Board of Trustees (BOT) to pilot the engine house of the leaders' mission towards better agricultural practices in a business-beneficiary ways to farmers and other stakeholders.

Accepting the new responsibilities, Bukar Jubril advised all the leaders to passionately pursue the vacuum the network has discovered to enhance by better repositioning of the agricultural activities with more economic benefits for all without segregation as being observed in the last Central Bank of Nigeria Anchor Borrowers among commodity Associations.

Jubril said the CLEN has no conflicting roles with the existing Federation of Commodity Associations of Nigeria ( FACAN), and other apex farmers' bodies saying they will rather work in harmony with the existing ones to ensure a new face lift for the better performance of the sector through the small scale farmers accessibility to necessary inputs with the use of an effective monitoring technology and proactive data to engage the government.

Speaking on the use of improved technologies to drive the sector, Mr. Danladi Ibrahim, the managing partner and consultant to the network, pointed out that the sector would be better driven with an ethical database called  Farmers' Digital Ecosystem Technology ( FADES ) that will register farmers at local wards with their soil samples and farm locations among other variables to access inputs and agricultural services for increase production.

Danladi Ibrahim said "This is not just a usual Association but rather a network where people are determined to reshape the face of Agriculture to meet our small-scale farmers' needs through an effective approach towards the collection of pincards to optimize their farms productivity.

Ibrahim added that the government would be engaged with proven data of farmers with locations of peculiar crops like maize cultivations in a particular location where security agencies of government can manage nomadic activities in such areas

"We will use efficient, friendly database technology to engage the Federal Government in policy implementation to be able to take pragmatic measures to ensure food security with accountability in respect to all statutory feeding initiative of the government" said Ibrahim.