The co-founder and executive partner at LoftyInc Allied
Partners, Mr. Michael Oluwagbemi, has identified Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) start-up incubation and acceleration in agriculture, as the
sexy part needed by the youths in farming, reports NaijaAgroNet.
Oluwagbemi made this known in a recent edition of ICTUpdate
Newsletter, saying that ICT start-up incubation and acceleration in agriculture
provides a unique opportunity to re-engage African youths across the
agriculture value chain.
This, he also said affords the youth to be empowered with
technology.
“So, Africa can develop its own technologies fit for purpose
and feed her citizens freed from the external dependency,” he said.
Oluwagbemi equally said, this part provides the sexy back in
agriculture for the youths which makes the farms potentially the office of the
future.
As said by him, the surest path for revenue generation or
profitability for any start-up in Africa is to create value.
“Start-ups that add real value to their customers; the
farmers and the consumers, become the winners in the market,” he declared.
To do so, he prescribed having a required degree of
collaboration with existing players, and leveraging the market channels that
traditional players had built but have exploited sub-optimally.
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