Business News of Saturday, 1 May 2021Source: www.ghanaweb.comThere is a growing movement within the country that is making agriculture a gateway to economic growth. These entrepreneurs are doing so with an app called complete farmer which allows diasporans to farm remotely on the internet. A demand-driven digital agriculture platform that uses data and tech to produce high-quality agriculture products at scale. Just months before mechanical engineering student Desmond Koney was due to graduate from college, his father died suddenly, leaving Desmond a struggling pineapple farm on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana’s capital. Engineer Koney sat with GhanaWeb Business and chronicled how he became fixated on figuring out how to run African farms like factories.

Source: GhanaWeb May 01, 2021 13:41 UTC