The Internet Farmer

The Internet Farmer

The reality of achieving feats online in this age is beyond what many have kept as a boundary. One of the latest feats online is online farming. It is totally quizzical on how you can till the ground and plant crops or get engaged with animal husbandry on the cyberspace, albeit its all about innovation and creativity. Today you can enjoy a piece of the cake online – may be you are the next online farmer to be celebrated.

In every area of human endeavor, there is a long value chain. In the field of agriculture, the internet farmer has a lot to offer according to the needs of this age. What does the internet farmers deal on? Just information – provision of information. The need for information in the sphere of agriculture is unlimited and there are hundreds of thousands of people to reach. Especially with the latest information and the business aspect of agriculture commonly termed Agropreneurship. These volume of information ranges from ideas bordering on preparatory stages of going into farming, the dynamics of handling the crops from planting to harvesting, post-harvest care, storage, logistics, down to processing and sales. There are uncountable salient information demand that falls on the desk of the internet farmer to advance. The internet farmer could be referred to as the agricultural based internet information marketer. Recently, many who opt for this area are referred to as White Collar Farmers.

For these lot, instead of going to the farm on daily bases, they occupy their cozy office spaces and do not sweet. In Nigeria today, the need for these caliber of farmers are indispensable in the area of consultancy services, agro extension services, seminar facilitators, mass media educationists, sales and marketing of farm machineries, crops, animals insecticides et all. They are equally visible in the area of land lease and sales, brokerage of agro produce and off taking. Many of them own websites or forums where all these are done with handsome rewards accumulating in their bank coffers.

One thing that these set of farmers do that oils the wheels of agricultural investments is advanced marketing of farm produce. They occupy the niche of linking farmers in the hinterland with buyers and off takers in the city or major consumption points.