Thread by @thriveagric

Africa Agricultural potential:

Africa is blessed with so much beauty and natural resources, alongside a huge potential for Agriculture. Which accounts for its economic development. ...
#farming

The Africa Agricultural sector would suffer low access to farmers, agripreneurs and public investment due to inadequate investments in small and medium scale agribusiness enterprise.

According to the Planet Earth Institute Sub-saharan Africa has 200 million hectares which ...

amount to more than half of the worlds uncultivated land and because of its untapped agricultural potential, the continent suffers food security and continued poverty.
The 60% facts:
FAO in their article “how to feed the world in 2050” and UN “Agriculture in Africa” stated that;

Agriculture accounts for 60% of jobs in Africa.
Food production will have to increase to about 60% in Africa in order to feed its increasing population.
Africa accounts for 65% of the world unused land.

World Bank has predicted that agribusiness in Africa will ...

grow to become a 1 trillion dollar industry in 2030.

With this, we can see that we have the capacity to feed and empower our continent through Agriculture as one continent, which would amount to food security, job creation and economic development. ...
#Africa

Kindly watch out for next week's post which would address our population and economy.#development #sustainable #farm #thriveagric #AgTech