FAO simplifies access to agric data for Nigerians

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in Nigeria has said it will hand over the Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI) system developed through the Agricultural Market and Information System (AMIS) project to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development so that Nigerians can gain better access to relevant data on agriculture.
 
Director-General, FAO
Mr. Olutayo Oyawale, National Project Coordinator, who disclosed this recently, said the CAPI system will provide an unprecedented access to agriculture information from various stakeholders across the country that will, in turn, deliver tremendous growth for the agriculture sector.

Oyawale said “Real-time data gathering has always been a problem in the agricultural sector. With this CAPI System, investors, agriculture merchants, traders and farmers can make better decisions and optimise their activities in their respective roles.”

FAO also conducted a pilot use of crowdsourcing data collection system for 18 crops, covering a period of four months from November 2016, from four markets and 10 Local Government Associations (LGAs) in Kaduna State, using a well-coordinated crowdsourcing operation. The pilot exercise employed the services of about 801 farmers and traders combined.

The CAPI system has a web-based repository that will provide easy access to agricultural data producing agencies and other agricultural market stakeholders across Nigeria. It will impact the ability of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to execute their mandates by reducing the cost of data production as it will eliminate the cost of printing paper questionnaires, hiring data entry operators, and use of courier services.


The solution will also reduce data production time by providing near real-time data from the field to data processing units of the MDAs. In addition, the system will enable a proper monitoring and evaluation of data collection via the use of GPS data submission alongside every data collected.

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