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Agricultural technologies, innovations key for agri-business resilience during COVID-19

Dr. Emmanuel Okogbenin

As governments across the globe strive to curb the spread of COVID-19, it is becoming imperative now more than ever to promote agricultural technologies and innovations during these unprecedented times to cushion smallholder farmers and agri-businesses against the negative effects and impacts of COVID 19 pandemic.

Accordingly, African governments, seed companies, and regional bodies should endeavour to collectively create an enabling policy environment for agri-business, support smart agro-input subsidy programmes without distorting market dynamics and promote digital agriculture solutions to ease the effect of the pandemic on food and nutrition security in Africa.

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