Nigerian farmers to use NFC to get seeds and fertilizer subsidies
International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC) and 470 000 farmers signed GES TAP project, a NFC services now and Sokoto state in Nigeria FCT implementation. The group hopes to have in the coming weeks to sign the service 500 000 farmers.
The TAP project provided farmers use non-contact card and interstate Nexus 7 tablet is placed in an NFC-enabled redeem at. GES, on behalf of "growth strengthened support" is provided to farmers by the government, so they can afford to buy fertilizer, seeds and other agricultural inputs to grow food in a subsidy program. GES and Hyperion TAP is a joint venture consulting firm.
When farmers access to a redeem at their cards Pat Nexus 7 tablet, agricultural dealers such redemption center can confirm the identity of the farmers, the farmers have the right to view government-funded vouchers to use, and made available to farmers to their needs The product. Then farmers pay the remaining money, and again tap the Tablet PC card to complete the transaction.
"All by technical support, first of all, farmers have a card can be used to tap the NFC Tablet PC, then NFC Tablet PC will confirm who the farmers are, and so they know they have the right to use coupons and whether the exchange.
"There is no doubt that these cards are the core of everything we are doing, which is a NFC service, for me, I have to say, it omnipotent."
"Now we have 470,000 farmers NFC card, our goal is 500,000, I think we actually may be more than this number," project leader Lawrence Tweed adds GES TAP services. "Currently, we have about 400 Nexus 7 tablet in use in FCT, we have 58 tablet at 29 locations for the exchange, so every FCT these 29 locations have 2 tablet. ʱ??
"In Sokoto, we have 148 Tablet PC is being used for 74 locations. Field staff of the two states registered migrant farmers also use Nexus 7 tablet."
"We use NFC to extend network coverage areas that are not connected to; TAP to reach other parts of the mobile network does not reach, so do we empower farmers to enable them to participate in the project to GES."
"But there is a greater significance," Lonie added. "This is just a pilot in Nigeria, and for Nigeria and other emerging markets, these communications are not as good as we hope, the opportunity is even greater."
"It could easily be extended, for example, to something like vouchers for health center or transportation system; allowing people to walk around in the country, of course, in emerging markets, education is a good potential for use cases. We can imagine the end-user to come up with tickets to allow girls to go to school. "
"In some parts of the developed countries, NFC is sometimes a problem for the solution, but in Africa we have a lot of problems, but on many issues for NFC is the ideal solution."
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