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Afghanistan govt hires Nigerian firm to develop e-wallet

Published August 8, 2017
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Ozioma Ubabukoh

The Ministry of Agriculture Irrigation and Livestock in Afghanistan has engaged Cellulant Nigeria to commence the process of establishing a market-based input distribution technology.

The collaborative effort is aimed at bolstering Afghanistan’s drive for self-sufficiency in wheat production.

Cellulant’s e-wallet technology is expected to boost Afghanistan’s agricultural sector in general.

Afghanistan will be the first country in Asia to adopt the e-wallet system, following the footsteps of countries like Liberia and Togo.

Speaking on the partnership with the Afghanistan government, the Co- founder of Cellulant Corporation, Mr. Bolaji Akinboro, stated that the technology, whose origin is Nigeria, “is the gift of Cellulant to humanity.”

He said, ‘‘Afghanistan is beautiful to us, and we are glad to come all the way from Africa, Nigeria to make life better for the smallholder farmer in Afghanistan.”

According to him, the AgriKore technology gives smallholder farmers access to agricultural inputs of improved varieties/breeds, fertiliser and agro-chemicals, making it the backbone of increased productivity and profitability.

“This technology allows the best available seeds and fertiliser get into the hands of hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers to raise crop yields,” he said.

Akinboro appreciated the government and the people of Afghanistan for giving the company the opportunity and the space to participate in making life better for smallholder farmers.

He said, ‘‘Cellulant is driven to solve difficult problems on use of payment technology. We will work with the government of Afghanistan to get inputs to one million farmers in the next 90 to 120 days.

“This e-wallet system, which works on a block chain technology, provides a holistic system to link the farmers to agricultural inputs supply chain, finance and markets through integration with mobile network operators, input markets, extensions services, financial service providers, commodity market, and insurance service providers.”

The e-wallet system was conceived in Nigeria. It was first implemented under the administration of the former Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina, who is now President of the Africa Development Bank.

The technology was said to have enabled Nigeria to increase its food production by an average of 21 million metric tonnes annually between 2012 and 2015.

Cellulant has exported the technology out of Nigeria to other African countries in Francophone and Anglophone Africa such as Liberia, Togo, Uganda etc.

“So far, Cellulant’s e-wallet or AgriKore ecosystem, which connects everyone to everything in agriculture all the time, has been of benefits to 17 million farmers, 2500 agri-businesses; 800 e-extension workers and over 2,500 service points in Nigeria. This technology enables more than five million farmers to get access to high quality inputs every year,” Akinboro explained.



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