ICT for agriculture

TIC dans l’agriculture

ICT for agriculture

One of the opportunities that sub-saharan countries benefit is the explosion and proliferation of mobile phone technologies and wireless infrastructure associated with the breakthrough continues of the Internet. Benin is no exception to this reality. It has at least five (05) GSM networks that provide services to the populations. The mobile phones have today become a communication tool used by agricultural producers. This program aims at promoting ICTS in the agricultural sector to the productivity of sustainable production systems. Two axes constitute the strategic orientations of this programme.

• Improving the access of small farmers to the market by ICTS

• Use of ICT to support the management of agricultural knowledge