In a major push to strengthen Nigeria’s food security architecture, the federal government has launched the country’s first satellite/ AI-powered national crop monitoring system, a platform designed to provide real-time intelligence on crop production, land use and emerging food security threats to support policy decisions.
The initiative, unveiled through a Memorandum of Understanding signed in Ben Guerir, Morocco, is expected to address one of the country’s biggest agricultural challenges—the lack of reliable, in-season data on what farmers are actually cultivating and producing across the federation.
The agreement, signed by the Presidential Food Systems Coordinating Unit (PFSCU), Morocco’s OCP Africa and a geospatial technology company, Ground Truth Analytics, will see the technology deployed in phases across 15 priority states before wider expansion.
Deputy Chief of Staff to the President (Office of the Vice President), Senator Ibrahim Hassan Hadejia, signed the agreement on behalf of the Federal Government at the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, representing Vice President Kashim Shettima in his capacity as Chairperson of the Presidential Food Systems Coordinating Unit.
According to a statement issued yesterday by the Technical Assistant on Agriculture to the President and Executive Secretary of the PFSCU, Marion Moon, the agreement also marked the formal launch of the National Agro-Productivity System (NAPS), which will provide federal and state governments with AI-generated intelligence on crop yields, available farmland and food security risks nationwide.
