15 Things You Did Not Know About Opportunities In Agriculture

Recently, a three year old agric-technology startup, acquired a sixteen year old agribusiness. Farmcrowdy, the pioneer of digital Agric-crowdfunding venture acquired Best Foods (L&P), an agribusiness group of over 16 years that is focused on the processing of livestock, farming, and marketing of agricultural produce. Why should you care? These words from the President of African Development Bank will tell you why. He said and I quote, “the next generation of millionaires and billionaires in Africa will be farmers”.

Currently, more than 60 percent of the population of sub-Saharan Africa is smallholder farmers, and about 23 percent of sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP comes from agriculture. Yet, Africa’s full agricultural potential remains untapped. Keep watching to learn more interesting facts about the undeniable opportunities in agriculture across the continent; And how you can take advantage of these opportunities. If you are new here, welcome. Please consider subscribing to After School Africa for more educative videos like these.

1. “The Next Generation Of Billionaires In Africa Will Be Farmers” 1:01
2. Demand For Food Will Continue To Soar 1:58
3. Africa Can Feed Itself 2:19
4. Africa Has The Capacity To Feed The World 2:52
5. Agriculture Is More About Technology Than Land Mass 3:36
6. Africa Is The Only Region Yet To Experience Green Revolution 4:35
7. Africa Could Be 2 To 3 Times More Productive Than It Is Today 5:13
8. These 9 Countries Make Up 60 Percent Of The Total Agric Potential 5:41
9. These Crops Have Huge Potential In These Countries 5:59
10. Agric-Tech Has Grown By 110% Over 3 Years 6:22
11. Digitalization 6:59
12. There Are Different Career Opportunities In Agriculture 7:32
13. Make Your Money Work For You Without Going To The Farm 8:09
14. Women Are Increasingly Taking Up The Challenge 8:35
15. There Is So Much Room To Invest 9:00

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[InspiringModernAgriculture]

Being a professional farmer with a BSc in Agriculture and trained in Africa, I keep encouraging farming in Africa by sharing knowledge through educative videos.

[bonkezinaw]

I'm from Ethiopia God bless Africa! land of opportunity!!!

[donkorphilip]

I'm planning to move into farming full time.

[evakast]

Great information. More Africans need to hear this

[juliusbruce]

Tell it all over Africa. D potentials are huge. Agric is profitable and sustainable

[abhilashkrishnan]

Just a minor correction - green revolution or industrial farming will be disastrous for African people and the consumers of food grown accordingly. Punjab in India was the green revolution hotspot that had rampant use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. Now large number of farmers get treatment for cancer, travelling in a train named Cancer train.

Please focus on organic or agro-farming for sustainability and beware of the harmful technologies.

[phatsimoraphutshi]

One of the dreams coming true soon ❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼

[sovin]

It was a great video that provided us in-depth thinking of agri-investment in Africa, and the advanced experience from the Nerthland. Thkx

[namukasavictoria]

Uganda the pearl of Africa blessed with fertile soils.we thank God

[AlexandriaWyatt]

I am an American with Nigerian descent, and I LOVE to see advancements in agriculture. After our green revolution here in the US, we have destroyed our soils. So I am now working to regenerate the biodiversity in soil so food can grow naturally again.

[isaacadjeiwashingstonadjei]

I am from Ghana and a farmer myself, look the village where I am farming is full of fertile soil and a river which can be used as tourist sites, somany opportunities for us especially we the youths but the sad thing is that the youth want fast money, they are not changing to catch up with how technology is changing agriculture, 96% sub Saharan Africans have old primitive mentality of farming, the mindset is holding us stagnant.we hardly change.

[jzk]

I would like to get into the processing side of farming. Too many things spoil and go bad before they even reach market, but if you processed the food, it would last 30 times longer.

[siddiqasubonteng]

Great to have this education of farming

[rafeeq_sultana]

I'm from India. I always wanted to live in Tanzania near Lake Victoria, hope some day I will go there

[greenfield]

But how can this fact become possible in Nigeria where and when these Fulanis herdsmen are busy endangering the lives of farmers? People are now even more drawn back to go to farming because of the fear of these callous monsters.

[christabelbishop]

Love investing, tell us more of these opportunities also name some direct contacs

[nizamuddinuddin]

Abundant arable land, great opportunity to utilize this opportunity

[lucasparker]

Agriculture have done alot to the world, if not for agriculture no living thing could have been in existence

[shanniemaharaj]

I'm going to be next billionaire in farming thank God

[joharijj]

Am preparing to do agriculture this year in Tanzania, kindly advise me what to grow and market, that's what confusing me I have a very huge of land,