Category: Partnership

Categories
Agriculture Carbon Credit Farming Innovation Partnership

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

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/

Contact us: +2347041000987, sales@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 (IOPOTM) 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/

Categories
Agriculture Farming Innovation Partnership

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

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.

Categories
Agriculture Artificial Intelligence Innovation Partnership Technology

AIRSMAT PARTNERS WITH ISRAEL-BASED COMPANY GORILLALINK FOR SATELLITE CONNECTIVITY

AirSmat today announced a partnership with Israel-based company, GorillaLink under which AirSmat will deliver critical enabling Internet of Things Sensor (Product named, FarmSense) technology using GorillaLink Satellite technology capabilities. FarmSense helps to gather useful information from farmland, stores and transmit the information to farmers so they can improve their crop productivity and secure the supply chain of the future in Nigeria and across Africa. 

Photo Credit: Ken Adejumoh

GorillaLink will enable AirSmat sensors to have instant connections to the internet anytime and everywhere FarmSense is deployed providing 99.9% uptime. With GorillaLink technology, it now becomes easier for AirSmat to deploy FarmSense anywhere to capture information that farmers across the continent need to drive accurate decision and efficiency spending in day-to-day operations. 

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 Africa 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 partner with GorillaLink on the mission to help farmers across Africa achieve maximum crop yield and to ensure sustainability and farmers empowerment,” said Adeoluwa Ibikunle, Chief Technology Officer at AirSmat. “GorillaLink has built a unique technology capability driven by clear vision to re-define the way industries seamlessly utilize communication devices in a smart and unprecedented way, that allows companies like AirSmat to be more efficient and cost effective in helping farmers obtain useful information from their farmland with the use of FarmSense.” 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 GorillaLink in this effort.”

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 GorillaLink

GorillaLink provides a plug and play PaaS solution that seamlessly enables connectivity of smart devices using satellite communication providing global coverage. GorillaLink technology instantly connects devices anytime and anywhere enabling smart wireless communication for industries worldwide. For more details, visit https://www.gorilla.link/.

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

Categories
Agriculture Farming Innovation Partnership Technology

AirSmat and RiceAfrika Partner for Sustainability and Rice Grower Empowerment

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