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AIRSMAT PARTNERS TRUVIS FOR 1.5M OF CO2e REMOVAL, ENABLING FARMERS TO EARN CARBON CREDITS.

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Post date April 10, 2024
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Combating climate change by sequestering 1.5 million metric tonnes of CO2e.

In a monumental stride towards sustainable agriculture and climate action, AirSmat is thrilled to announce our partnership with Truvis Agro. Together, we’re embarking on a journey to empower smallholder farmers across communities in 20 states of Nigeria including Ogun, Oyo, Ekiti, Osun, Benue, Edo, Kebbi, Kaduna, Gombe, Taraba, Ondo, Bauchi, Jigawa, Niger, Nasarawa, Lagos, Kogi, Kwara, Kano and Adamawa.

Through this transformative partnership, smallholder farmers in these communities will have the opportunity to receive additional income from carbon credits and other climate-smart benefits. By leveraging AirSmat’s innovative solutions and Truvis Agro’s history of working with smallholder farmers, we are mitigating climate change while improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.

Our initiative aims to sequester an astounding 1.5 million metric tonnes of CO2 through the deployment of 500,000 tonnes of biochar. This goal represents a significant contribution to global efforts to combat climate change and achieve carbon neutrality. Furthermore, the partnership is projected to generate over $150 million in carbon credit revenue for farmers, providing them with a sustainable source of income and empowering them to invest in their farms and communities.

AirSmat empowers farmers to optimise crop yields, combat climate change and earn carbon credits.

To ensure transparency and accountability, AirSmat’s innovative AnyFarm app enables traceability not just for the farmers but project sponsors, allowing end-to-end projects’ traceability. Furthermore, our AI-powered Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) capabilities provide farmers with real-time insights into carbon sequestration levels, empowering them to make informed decisions for sustainable farming practices.

Central to our efforts is the AirSmat use of pyrolizers, equipped with our IoT sensors encapsulated with AirSmat’s in-house built software to measure emissions and digitally transmit data to AirSmat’s application portal so project sponsors have required visibility for our pyrolysis process. These state-of-the-art pyrolizers ensure the sustainable production of biochar from agricultural waste, further reducing carbon emissions and closing the loop on waste management.

At AirSmat, we understand the importance of supporting smallholder farmers who are the backbone of our agricultural system. Through this partnership, we’re not only fostering environmental stewardship but also promoting economic resilience and social development in rural communities across Nigeria. Together, AirSmat and Truvis Agro are pioneering a new era of sustainable agriculture, where farmers are at the forefront of climate action and prosperity. We’re excited about the transformative impact this partnership will have and look forward to creating a brighter future for generations to come.

About AirSmat

AirSmat is a leading technology company dedicated to revolutionizing agriculture and environmental sustainability through innovative solutions. Our mission is to empower farmers with cutting-edge technologies that enhance productivity, efficiency, and resilience. We are transforming African agriculture through AI-driven AgTech, empowering farmers to optimize crop yields, combat climate change, and earn carbon credits.

We do this by leveraging AI, farm data, and democratising the production of high-quality biochar from end-of-life waste to regenerate the soil, sequester carbon and improve farmers’ livelihoods across Africa. From advanced monitoring systems to intelligent analytics platforms, we provide actionable insights that enable informed decision-making and drive positive outcomes across the agricultural value chain.

We are committed to driving positive social and environmental impact by promoting sustainable practices, reducing waste, and mitigating the effects of climate change. Through strategic partnerships, continuous innovation, and a deep commitment to excellence, AirSmat is shaping the future of agriculture and environmental stewardship in Africa.

For more information, visit https://www.airsmat.com/

About Truvis Agro

Truvis Agro Services Limited (TRUVAGRO) was created as a solution to the disconnect between farm produce and industrial input. The nexus between the two is what creates an agribusiness. TRUVAGRO has developed a homegrown Input-Output-Process-Offtake (IOPO^TM) model that ensures farm produce gains easy access to industrial markets thereby deepening the value chain and enhancing sustainability for large- and small-scale farmers. For more details, visit https://truvisagro.com/

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Harnessing Innovation: AirSmat’s Impact on Climate-Smart Agriculture in Africa

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Post date July 24, 2023
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Soji Sanyaolu, CEO & Co-founder AirSmat Inc

With 1.4 billion people in Africa and the global population set to double by 2050, there is an opportunity to tackle food insecurity sustainably with a global focus on greenhouse gas emissions. According to world bank article (last updated in April 2021) – https://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/climate-smart-agriculture, the agricultural sector is a significant contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, responsible for an estimated 19-29% of these emissions when factoring in the emissions produced across the entire agricultural value chain, which includes activities like transportation, storage, and processing. This percentage rises to as high as 40%.

As the global population is set to double by 2050, the demand for food will rise, potentially leading to increased emissions from agriculture unless proactive measures are taken to protect the environment. The solution lies in embracing advanced technology to revolutionize agricultural practices, enhance yields, boost farmer incomes, and promote sustainable practices. Innovative technologies, including climate-smart agriculture, precision farming, soil carbon sequestration, and digital tools for optimizing the value chain, all aim to increase agricultural productivity for farmers across Africa while minimizing environmental impacts. By adopting these technology capabilities, we can ensure food security, prosperity for farmers, and environmental sustainability for future generations.

AirSmat, an AgTech startup in Africa, stands at the forefront, providing cutting-edge AI-backed application capabilities and innovative techniques for sustainable crop management. With a strong focus on Farm Data, AirSmat empowers farmers to achieve higher yields while minimizing land, water, and chemical inputs. By leveraging these advancements, AirSmat plays a pivotal role in increasing land productivity, protecting natural ecosystems, and preventing irregular use of farmland for unsustainable agricultural practises. As a result, AirSmat contributes significantly to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and promoting a more environmentally sustainable approach to farming. Through our state-of-the-art technologies and solutions, AirSmat helps farmers optimize their operations, enhance crop yields, and protect the environment for future generations. With a commitment to innovation and sustainability, AirSmat continues to lead the way in revolutionizing the agricultural landscape in Africa.

The AirSmat Farm Manager mobile application is a comprehensive tool designed to empower farmers with efficient farm management capabilities. This app enables farmers to maintain detailed farm logs, track farm assets, manage expenses and sales, and monitor farm warehouses seamlessly. The application aggregates and processes various crucial Farm Data, including soil level information and data from field IoT sensors, drones, and satellites. Leveraging AirSmat’s AI-backed platform, farmers gain access to valuable insights and personalized recommendations for implementing best agricultural practices. By harnessing the power of soil mapping and monitoring, farmers can accurately apply the right nutrients in precise quantities, leading to enhanced crop productivity and increased carbon sequestration capacity from the atmosphere. With AirSmat Farm Manager, farmers can optimize their farm operations, improve food production, achieve traceability, contribute to soil health and environmental sustainability.

AirSmat’s Farm Manager app is a robust tool empowering farmers by optimizing resource utilization and mitigating climate-related risks. We firmly believe that Farm Data holds transformative potential, driving its collection, aggregation, processing, and intelligent sharing through our platform to effectively reduce climate-related risks for African farmers. To ensure timely access to vital agricultural information, our app features an integrated notification engine delivering updates, recommendations, and insights via SMS and popular social media platforms like WhatsApp. Moreover, we have nurtured a digital community exclusively for farmers, fostering knowledge exchange and support. With AirSmat’s Farm Manager app, we are resolute in equipping farmers with essential tools and intelligence to adapt to evolving climatic conditions and advance sustainable agriculture across Africa. This is precision farming at its best.

According to the World Economic Forum, implementing precision agriculture on 15-25% of farms has the potential to increase global yields by 10-15% by 2030. By streamlining and improving various stages of the value chain, from production and processing to distribution and consumption, we can maximize the efficiency and productivity of agricultural systems. This approach enables us to meet the growing demand for food while minimizing the environmental impact and preserving natural ecosystems. Through advanced technologies and data-driven insights, AirSmat is committed to contributing to the optimization of agricultural value chains, fostering sustainable practices, and ensuring a secure and prosperous future for farming communities in Africa.

It is widely recognized that the transformative technology capabilities, like those offered by AirSmat, often remain inaccessible to most smallholder farmers in Africa due to high acquisition costs and limited education on implementing such solutions. However, at AirSmat, we are committed to driving the adoption of these tools by partnering with government institutions and private enterprises focused on agriculture.

One recent example of our efforts is the partnership with Sterling Bank PLC, where AirSmat enables farmers to harness quality farm data and AI-generated recommendations. This collaboration empowers Sterling Bank to monitor farm activities throughout the planting season and enables farmers to enhance productivity and secure the supply chain of the future.

The changing demography, particularly the increasing number of young individuals with knowledge of software capabilities, embracing farming as a business presents a promising growth opportunity for AirSmat. As these tech-savvy individuals enter the agricultural sector, there is a greater openness to adopting advanced technologies and solutions like ours. AirSmat recognizes the potential in catering to this emerging generation of farmers, empowering them with our AI-driven tools and providing the necessary support to optimize their farming operations. By tapping into this growing market of tech-savvy farmers, AirSmat aims to not only contribute to their success but also to the overall transformation and sustainability of agriculture in Africa.

About AirSmat

AirSmat is an AgTech (Agriculture Technology) company based in Africa that aims to revolutionize the agriculture sector through data-driven solutions. The company’s primary focus is on harnessing the power of technology, data analytics, and artificial intelligence to help farmers optimize their agricultural practices, increase productivity, and promote sustainability.

AirSmat’s flagship product, the Farm Manager app, is a powerful tool designed to empower farmers by optimizing resource utilization and minimizing climate-related risks. The app allows farmers to keep a comprehensive farm log, manage farm assets, track expenses and sales, and monitor farm warehouse stock. It also integrates data from field IoT sensors, drones, soil level data and satellites to provide farmers with real-time insights and AI-generated recommendations for best farm practices.

By leveraging advanced data analytics and machine learning algorithms, AirSmat’s Farm Manager app enables farmers to make informed decisions, improve crop yields, reduce water and chemical inputs, and mitigate environmental impacts. The company also offers a notification engine that delivers valuable agricultural information to farmers through SMS and popular social media platforms like WhatsApp.

AirSmat is committed to driving the adoption of data-driven agriculture in Africa, empowering farmers, and contributing to sustainable food production while addressing the challenges posed by climate change. Through strategic partnerships with government institutions and private enterprises, AirSmat seeks to make its technology accessible to a wider audience and create a positive impact on agriculture and food security across the continent. For more details, visit https://www.airsmat.com/

Soji Sanyaolu, CEO & Co-founder, AirSmat Inc.

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AIRSMAT PARTNERS STERLING BANK TO INCREASE CROP YIELD RATIO FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SCALE FARMERS

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L-R CEO, AirSmat and CEO, Sterling Bank pictured above.

AirSmat announced a partnership with Sterling Bank to enable farmers to increase their output by leveraging quality farm data and AI-generated recommendations. In this partnership, AirSmat will deliver enabling technology capabilities for Sterling Bank to monitor farm activities throughout the planting season and help farmers improve their productivity and secure the supply chain of the future.

In a statement released by the company, AirSmat with its technology will deliver unique agronomic insights alongside remarkable acre-by-acre to drive efficiency in farm activities reporting for Sterling Bank and farmers that are direct customers of the bank. Sterling Bank’s team of experts will access this farm data through AirSmat’s in-house-built application, FarmManager, to deliver valuable insights to the bank’s Agric Desk team, stakeholders, and shareholders.

In his words, AirSmat CEO & Co-founder, Soji Sanyaolu stated, “With drone and satellite technology, soil-level, and IoT sensors, we are helping to transform the way farmers and other stakeholders in the value chain collect, manage, and interpret farm data. We are helping farm owners and farmers across Nigeria to eliminate guesswork and drive day-to-day farm operations decisions with precision.” He further explained that “…precise, accurate farm data enables everyone in the value chain, such as banks and insurance companies, make data-driven decisions to support farmers and growers with loans and insurance cover.”

In a recent statement, Dr. Olushola Obikanye, Group Head of Agricultural Finance and Solid Minerals at Sterling Bank stated “if the bank wants farmers to be able to repay loans taken, the bank needs to have a presence in their immediate communities for effective monitoring and coordination of farming activities; this partnership was created to create a strategic partnership that would, among other things, enable Sterling Bank to fulfill its commitment to its shareholders.”

According to Sterling Bank’s CEO, Abubakar Suleiman, “It is difficult to operate in a country and ignore a sector like agriculture that accounts for so much employment and adds so much output to the country’s gross domestic product. At the end of the day, the country’s development starts with agriculture. Apart from the raw materials that come from there, the country must be able to provide food to feed the people and provide the input required for mechanization and manufacturing to take place. To a large extent, I can’t imagine a better place to start to focus if not agriculture.”

The AirSmat team is excited to support Sterling Bank on its mission to make quality food available across Africa and ensure the sustainability and empowerment of growers with the best-in-class technology to increase yield. In this partnership, Sterling has made commitments to its growers, customers, and stakeholders. Furthermore, AirSmat will continue to use its technology to demonstrate that farmers’ success, economic empowerment, and sustainable practices go together to grow food production to attain self-sufficiency in Africa.

About AirSmat

AirSmat addresses the need to increase the efficiency and sustainability of the farming business by offering extraordinary access to real-time information that can help guide pre and in-season decision-making. Using the world’s most advanced solution for diagnostics, we drive precision farming that empowers the agricultural industry to adopt and scale resilient agricultural practices. With drone, satellite, soil-level, and IoT sensors, we are helping to transform how farmers collect, manage, and interpret farm data. We are helping farm owners and farmers across the country to eliminate guesswork and drive day-to-day farm operations decisions with precision. With world resources dwindling and an ever-growing population, especially on the continent of Africa, it is our mission to guarantee food availability for all. For more information, visit https://www.airsmat.com or contact +2347041000987, sales@airsmat.com

About Sterling Bank Plc

Sterling Bank Plc (NSE: STERLNBANK), a leading commercial bank in Nigeria, provides a full range of financial products and services to individuals, businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organizations. Sterling Bank offers a bouquet of solutions to the corporate, retail, and investment banking spaces, from digital banking to investment, trade, and structured finance products, financial advisory services, stock broking, and registrar services. The bank caters to 1.6 million customers through its 2,600 employees, 185 branches and cash centers, 840 ATMs, and 3,000 POS terminals throughout the country. Sterling Bank was established in 1960 and was formerly known as NAL Bank. In 1992, it was partly privatized and listed on the Nigeria Stock Exchange. In 2006, it merged with Trust Bank of Africa, NBM Bank, Magnum Trust Bank, and Indo-Nigeria Merchant Bank and changed its name to Sterling Bank plc. In 2021, Your One Customer Bank’s profit after tax stood at N9.465 billion for nine months, which is N2.096 billion higher when compared to the N7.369 billion gained in the same period of 2020, while the bank recorded N9.384 billion in the third quarter of 2021 as against the N7.280 billion gained in 2020 within the same period. For more details, visit https://sterling.ng.

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AIRSMAT FARMSENSE – ELIMINATING FOOD INSECURITY IN NIGERIA

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Post date June 15, 2022
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The recent statistics by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), said the inflation rate rose to 15.92 percent in March 2022, representing a 0.22 percent point rise when compared to 15.7 per cent recorded in February 2022.

The Bureau also said that the composite food index rose year-on-year (YoY) by 0.09 percent points to 17.20 percent in March 2022 from 17.11 per cent in February 2022.
In its Consumer Price index (CPI), the bureau said the rise in the food index was due to increases in prices of bread and cereals, food product, potatoes, yam and other tubers, fish, meat, oils, and fats.

The above statistics are manifest with a panoramic view of the present state of livelihood in Nigeria, which gives a glimpse into the level of poverty ravaging the nation with respect to food security. Staple foods such as garri, corn, rice, yam, beans, millet, potatoes, and others have all jerked up with prices above the common man’s pocket. With the rising food inflation, it is not uncommon that some households could have been forced to the ratio of 0.0.1 or 0.1.0 for their daily meals. This is chiefly associated with shrinking income or stagnated income that is no longer sufficient to meet the rising cost of food products.

Also in recent times, a report processed by the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development (FMARD) disclosed that about 18 million people will face food insecurity across Nigeria between June and August 2022.
The stakeholders’ report laid emphasis on acute food and nutrition insecurity in the Sahel and West African region.
The report said the food crisis will affect Nigerians in 21 states and FCT including, 416,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). It noted that about 14.4 million people including 385,000 IDPs in 21 States and FCT of Nigeria are already in the food crisis till May 2022.

The analysis for the month of March covered states such as Abia, Adamawa,
Benue, Borno, Cross-River, Edo, Enugu, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Lagos, Niger, Plateau, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara, and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Not forgetting that in the 2021 Global Hunger Index, Nigeria ranks 103rd out of the 116 countries with sufficient data to calculate 2021 GHI scores. With a score of 28.3, Nigeria has a level of hunger that is serious. This narrative is obvious and needs to be changed with all hands-on deck to bring about actions that will take Nigerians out of hunger.
These various reports are very timely warnings to save the nation and the West African region from impending famine. Whilst this is frightening, it does not call for quivering but swift action to avert the danger of a famine outbreak.
The call and clamor by the Federal Government in recent times for individuals and corporate to invest in agriculture and drive towards attaining food sufficiency and reducing imports have become a public outcry. The time is now for us as a nation to take the bull by its horns to employ all necessary tools and technology to maximize food production.

With modern technologies and the deployment of the right tools in place,
farmers can boost productivity and achieve greater crop yield through the
practice of Precision Agriculture (PA) according to the National Research Council, 1997, Precision Agriculture is “the application of modern information technologies to provide, process and analyse multi-source data of high spatial and temporal resolution for decision making and operations in the management of crop production.”

With the adoption of the science and art of precision agriculture through
innovative technology such as FarmSense, a technology developed by AirSmat to address the need to increase efficiency and sustainability of the farming business by offering extraordinary access to real-time information that can help guide in-season decision making.
FarmSense is a device that will be placed on the farmland to help in the
gathering of useful information from the farm, stores and transmits the data to the farmers in real-time on their smartphones so they can improve their crop productivity and secure the supply chain of the future in Nigeria and across Africa.

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With FarmSense, farmers will be able to maximize yields, conserve resources such as water and fertilizer application, reduce waste, and enhance productivity. FarmSense is an IoT (Internet of Things) device. The functionality of the product is powered by GSM and Satellite which enables instant connections to the internet anytime and everywhere FarmSense is deployed providing 99.9% data updates.
Through the data collected, farmers can work smarter with decision-taking as regards areas that need attention to boost soil nutrients with the application of fertilizer and water. This further save time and cost from guess works which is the application of these soil enhancements at random times instead of precisely to specific areas of the farm.

The quest to combat food insecurity in Africa is a dare passion for AirSmat to ensure that in the near and long term, with the technological application, the continent would attain food security to feed its population. AirSmat offers holistic technology solutions for intelligent and precision agriculture. The primary goal of the agri-tech start-up is to assist farmers and farm owners in making informed decisions to maximize yields and ensure food security while increasing the bottom lines of agricultural businesses and balancing the demand-supply and price ratios in the market.

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GET THE MOST FROM YOUR FARMLAND THE SMAT WAY.

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Post date May 23, 2022
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Why you need AirSmat products for better yield and ease of Farming.

There’s no better time to adopt technology on your farm than now. With world’s population projected to reach 9.8 bilion by 2050 (UNorg, June, 2021), farmers need to ensure increased food production, reduce cost of production and better use of available land for farming.

AirSmat’s solutions are designed to benefit growers in many areas including precision farming, increase crop yield, soil analysis with proper recomendation and a platform where farmers connect, share pain points and compare agronomic notes.

One way to ensure food availability is to do a proper soil analysis before planting.

According to Center for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (CAFE) soil test is important for several reasons:

–To optimize crop production

–To protect the environment from contamination by runoff and leaching of excess fertilizers.

–To improve the nutritional balance of the growing media and to save money and conserve energy

AirSmat Soil Analysis
Our SmatSTAR (Soil Test Analysis and Recommendation) service has helped many of our customers. Year in, year out, farmers encounter problems due to under-fertilization and overfertilization. Adopting our SmatSTAR service will help you with the exact quantity and requirement of fertilizer needed for maximum yield.

For example, In Nasarawa state–Nigeria, Cyprian Edeh of SkyTop Agro has engaged our SmatSTAR service and he explained how it has helped him to make informed decision.

AirSmat Internet of Things for Farmers
Another of our solution (FarmSense) helps farmers to know soil moisture content, temperature, and relative humidity of their farmland. Soil moisture condition is a major factor that determines crop yield. The amount of soil moisture affects the rate at which plant roots take up water. With our FarmSense IoT device, too-much water and no-water-all is now a thing of the past. This device calls your attention to Soil moisture level, temperature, and humidity.

Disease like Blossom end rot in tomatoes which is caused by calcium deficiency usually induced by fluctuation in plant water supply can now be prevented with accurate info on soil moisture content. FarmSense will reduce cost of running irrigation as the information supplied will guide farmers on the needed amount of moisture per time analysis and processing of data on plant growth in the field. Scheduling and regulation of production to increase harvest. Field sensors and virtual reality to help the farmer analysis and processing of data on plant growth in the field. Scheduling and regulation of production to increase harvest.

AirSmat FieldPro
A mobile application that helps farmers to correctly measure the size of their land. This measurement will help greatly in farm planning. Knowing the exact size of your land will help you with the quantity of Agro-inputs (Seeds, fertilizers, and crop protection products) needed per hectare. Having this information and applying the required input will improve productivity.

AirSmat SmatMapper
Drone technology is becoming more popular in farming and agriculture generally. We’re glad that at AirSmat, we’re playing a leading role to help farmers with this technology in Nigeria. Drones are designed to help growers in numerous ways; one way it helps is in the mapping and capturing of aerial images. With this service, we collect data with drone, the data gotten are used for various analysis such as vegetation indexing.
These captured images will help you as follow:
— To know areas of your field that needs focus.
— To know areas that are suitable to grow a particular crop.
— Help famers to save time, money and increase their knowledge on their growing land.

Social media platform (SmatCrow):
At AirSmat, we have built SmatCrow, a mobile app that serves as a platform were farmers interact and share idea. Farmers experience poor yield due to limited access to information. Our app is available for free download on Apple and Google play store. Once downloaded, registration is straight forward.

After signing up, the interface is easy to browse, click the community tab on the homepage, there, it contains different rooms categorized by different regions. Join any room(s) of your choice and start interacting with growers in your location or any location of your choice.

In conclusion, all AirSmat’s solutions are targeted to:

Increase crop yields
Reduce cost of production.

Author: Ayo Adeyemi

Edited By: Kenneth Adejumo

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AirSmat – Climate Smart Agriculture.

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Post date March 10, 2022
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Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is an approach that helps guide actions to transform agri-food systems towards green and climate resilient practices.

Growing young maize seedling in cultivated agricultural farm field with modern technology concepts

Climate-smart agriculture as a bridge towards development and food security built on three pillars:

Increasing productivity and incomes
Enhancing resilience of livelihoods and ecosystems
Reducing and removing greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere.

Examples of ways that CSA plan on solving climate issues include soil management, drought-tolerant maize, dairy development, farming catfish intensively, carbon finance to restore crop fields, waste-reducing rice thresher, rainfall forecasts and incentive system for low-carbon agriculture.

Countries throughout Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) need to increase food production to meet demand and predicted dietary changes under an increasingly harsh and difficult climate. This change will have to be achieved alongside reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Current agricultural management practices and the associated land use changes account for one-third of total GHG emissions in Africa.

For example, the United Republic of Tanzania is creating an enabling environment for agricultural transformation, setting policies, creating learning alliances, and specifically prioritizing climate smart agriculture for the country.

AirSmat climate information capabilities empower rural farming communities and agri-businesses to become more resilient and adaptive to effects of climate change as well as make more informed decisions regarding farming. We also believe with the right information and data, farmers can soon get with the program to help preserve the climate.

We at the AirSmat are at the forefront of practicing climate smart agriculture and excited about saving the climate and also solve the challenges of food security across Africa.

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Smart Agriculture – Think Differently; Think AirSmat!

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Post date February 10, 2022
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Our Mission – “Empowering farmers with data driven insights”

Watch the AirSmat story here>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIfWg73j62s

With world resources dwindling and an ever-growing population
especially on the continent of Africa, it is our mission to guarantee food
availability for all. We know the cliche of “eliminating global food insecurity.” But the problem is very real, and we must bring solutions to it. We are already at the border of the potential for food production using traditional methods, and a change in the situation is needed, certainly when according to the UN, humanity loses about 40% of the various crops to pests and diseases.

By reducing crop yield losses and delivering advanced analytics to the farmers, AirSmat Inc plans to solve the challenges mentioned above. Starting with Africa, we aim to evolve the global agriculture sector so that it can support future generations. There is a vast market opportunity in bringing state-of-the-art technologies to one of the two least digitized industry in the world.

Our solution is based on the observation and measurement of environmental data to optimize crop production and minimize environmental impact. We use drones, satellite, IoT, and soil-level data to amass various data and then create a precise map, describing the chemical composition of the soil and the vegetation state of crops. Then our AI analyses the land and detects weeds, plant canopy, plant count and plant diseases. There is also agronomy, plant pathology and
physiology experts ready to give recommendations on how to irrigate, fertilize croplands.

Finally, our user receives call-to-action requests, which helps him to
make quick and data-driven decisions. AirSmat Inc is focused on helping farmers in Africa to adopt precision farming practice.
With over 1.2 billion people in Africa, we think AirSmat is positioned to make huge impact in helping farmers achieve bountiful yield with intelligence we share with them. We have worked extremely hard to build a functional AI powered AgTech application platform with focus on helping farm owners and farmers across the continent of Africa to eliminate guess work and drive day to day farm operations decision with precision. With drone, satellite, soil-level and IoT sensors, we are helping to transform the way farmers collect, manage, and interpret farm data.

As one direct help to farmers to increase yield, with our IoT sensors, we can help correct the in-balance in tomato output – For example, this is today 3-5 tons per hectare in Nigeria as against global return of 25 – 30 tons per hectare. The difference is due to farmers not using data near real-time to make informed decisions.

Today, AirSmat is active among farmers in Nigeria, with plans for continued expansion around Africa.

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AirSmat and RiceAfrika Partner for Sustainability and Rice Grower Empowerment

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Post date January 14, 2022
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AirSmat SVP & Chief Commercial Officer (Olasunkanmi Alabi) and CEO Rice Afrika (Ibrahim Maigari)

AirSmat today announced a partnership agreement in principle with RiceAfrika, under which AirSmat will deliver critical enabling technology for RiceAfrika platform which helps Rice growers improve their productivity and secure the supply chain of the future.

RiceAfrika will use AirSmat technology to deliver unique agronomic insights with incredible, acre-by-acre precision and drive efficiency into invoice generation to rice growers that requires services provided by RiceAfrika. RiceAfrika’s team of expert will access this data to deliver value for some of their most valuable partners – the farmers that produce the high-quality rice products.

With drone, satellite, soil-level and IoT sensors, we are helping to transform the way farmers collect, manage, and interpret farm data. We are helping farm owners and farmers across to eliminate guess work and drive day to day farm operations decision with precision. Precise, accurate data enables tailored application of crop inputs and water resources, eliminating overapplication and overuse of products and delivering the insights needed for growers to optimize land stewardship.

“We are excited to support RiceAfrika on the mission to make quality rice available across Africa and to ensure sustainability and rice grower empowerment,” said Olasunkanmi Alabi, Chief Commercial Officer at AirSmat. “RiceAfrika has made a powerful set of commitments to its growers, customers, and stakeholders. Likewise, AirSmat’s technology has repeatedly demonstrated that farmer success, economic empowerment, and sustainable practices go together, and we are proud to be teamed with RiceAfrika in this effort.” AirSmat works with many of the largest farmers, and consumer-packaged goods companies to help drive efficiency and productivity through AI-driven digital insights.

About AirSmat

AirSmat addresses the need to increase efficiency and sustainability of the farming business by offering extraordinary access to real time information that can help guide in-season decision making. Using the world’s most advanced solution for diagnostics of your farmland, we drive precision farming that empowers the agricultural industry to adopt and scale resilient agricultural practices. With drone, satellite, soil-level and IoT sensors, we are helping to transform the way farmers collect, manage, and interpret farm data. We are helping farm owners and farmers across to eliminate guess work and drive day to day farm operations decision with precision. With world resources dwindling and an ever-growing population especially on the continent of Africa, it is our mission to guarantee food availability for all. For more information, visit www.airsmat.com.

About RiceAfrika

RiceAfrika is Africa’s first rice ONLY platform connecting all stakeholders in the value chain towards creating valuable interactions. RiceAfrika’s objective is to use technology to improve rice production in Africa. It recently launched a Harvester Hiring Service in Nigeria where rice farmers hire eco-friendly easy to use harvester machines. For more details, visit www.riceafrika.com.

Media contact information: +2347041000987, sales@airsmat.com

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