FILE - Farm workers harvest sugar cane on the property of Charles Senekal near the South African town of Mkuze, Kwazulu-Natal, Nov. 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)
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AI could transform African agriculture but access remains a major challenge | Africanews
Senior FAO official for Africa Meshack Malo described artificial intelligence as a powerful tool for farmers, stressing the need for Africa datasets, language models, research capacity and agritech firms, to enable the continent to be not only the consumer but the driver of the technology.
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FAO official: AI transforms African agriculture via weather, forecasting; adoption under 10% despite connectivity gaps and fragmented farm data. Tech leaders spot market: African-native AI infrastructure shifts the continent from AI consumer to agritech builder with localized datasets.
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