MIT Solve

Solution Overview

Solution Name:

Bridging the gap among rural farmers.

One-line solution summary:

Creating sustainable farming systems small scale farmers in Southwestern part of Nigeria to attain sustainable farming practices.

Pitch your solution.

In Nigeria, 70% of the farmers still practice subsistence agriculture and a majority of these farmers are yet to maximize yield from their farms through the practice of precise farming and organic farming practices.

This proposal intend to work with farmers association in the Southwestern part of Nigeria to bring innovative practices involved with precise farming and organic farming to them. This will reduce to zero waste from farms as waste from one farm unit will serve as raw material input in another unit. It will allow for sustainability of their production and food security attained.

What specific problem are you solving?

Presently, the world's population is stated as 7.2 billion people and all of us keep feeding on natures resources. These resources are presently declared as endangered as a result of man's decision and activities, one of which is agricultural systems existing in developing countries like Nigeria. In Nigeria, the population stands about 180 million and still growing, yet, we are fed by small scale farmers with less percent of mechanized agriculture. A lot of challenges face farmers in Nigeria and these challenges gets worse as there is poor returns often times for these small scale farmers. Research have shown that these rural farmers majorly lack access to innovative practices that can bring sustainability to their production and ecological enviroment. To address stated issues, this solution proposal seeks to work with farmer's association an cooperatives in Southwestern Nigeria to bring them precise and organic farming practices, thereby agricultural wastes and pollution is controlled.

What is your solution?

The solution will give innovative and organic farming practices information to local (rural) farmers through existing farmers association and cooperatives.The solution will send needed information through hand held devices to farmers.The process will utilize tablets, applications for hand held devices for Geographic readings and recordings, soil testing kits, calculations, crops relations for disease and pest control, composting and manuring, marketing linkages.

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

Directly:Subsistence farmers and farm traders

Indirectly: larger population.

Subsistence farmers will maximize returns from their farms through precise and accurate planning, attain resilient and sustainable systems safe for climate and ecology.

Their will be increase in safe organic foods for consumption which in turn reduce cases of diseases such as cancer. Food security will be ensured.

Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Scale practices and incentives for larger farmers and ranchers to decrease carbon emissions, land-use change, nutrient runoff, or water pollution

Explain how the problem, your solution, and your solution’s target population relate to the Challenge and your selected dimension.

In a bid to ensure sustainable food production for an increasing population, there is need to properly channel use resources especially from harvesting on crop field, animal production through this proposal of relating information through apps and phones to reduce unused inputs which is waste from another farm.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

Ibadan, Nigeria

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Concept: An idea being explored for its feasibility to build a product, service, or business model based on that idea

Who is the primary delegate for your solution?

Babatunde Rita