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Agriculture feeds Nigeria. It employs roughly 35 percent of the working population, contributes significantly to GDP, and remains the foundation of food security for over 200 million people. Yet Nigerian farmers have historically faced a persistent and painful gap between what they produce and what they could produce — a gap created not by lack of effort, but by lack of access to the right information at the right time. Artificial intelligence is beginning to close that gap in specific, practical ways.

The image of AI that circulates in most conversations is urban and technological — chatbots, code generators, sophisticated business tools for office workers. This framing misses one of the most significant and impactful applications of AI technology currently underway in Nigeria: its deployment in fields, farms, and agricultural supply chains across the country's major food-producing zones.

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https://www.vixaplus.com.ng/2026/04/ai-and-agriculture-how-nigerian-farmers.html