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Big data highlighted to transform Africa's agriculture

Big data highlighted to transform Africa's agriculture

Jun 15, 2017

Extracted Page: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-06/15/c_136368317.htm

Local workers work at the field where the experimental stevia are planted at Egerton University in Nakuru, Kenya, Oct. 13, 2016. (Xinhua/Sun Ruibo)

NAIROBI, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Strategic application of big data are expected to speed up modernization of Africa's agriculture sector and enhance its contribution to the continent's socio-economic transformation.

African ministers for agriculture said at a conference in Kenya's Nairobi on Wednesday that investment in data collection, storage and dissemination infrastructure is key to transform a sector whose co

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