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🌍 AI in Africa - Agriculture

Practical AI: Machine Learning, Data Science, LLM

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The Challenges of Extension Services in Agriculture and Food Security

With any technology adoption, one of the biggest issues is the issue of trust. So we can't just consider ourselves experts, diveinto a community and try to change their way of life directly. We tend to find that for farmers to learn about ter, you know, new science, new technologies, or what to do with disease outbreaks,. they tend to rely on a government agriculture officer who passes on this information may be in in in a way that is, youknow, a sable to them. Now, there tends to be a shortage of these knowledge wackers - ideally we should be having a ratio of one to 400 o no one extension forma to 400 famas. And so

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