Aeris IoT Services Helps Hello Tractor Plow African Fields CASE STUDY Over much of the African continent, low-income farmers dominate food production. In Nigeria alone, which has one of the largest inventories of uncultivated farmland on the planet, where the average farm size is just over one hectare (about 2.5 acres), there are 52 million smallholder farmers who grow 90% of the food. These small, fragmented plots make farm mechanization a challenge. Additionally, as rapid urbanization and aging populations continue to deplete the farm labor workforce, Nigerian farmland remains uncultivated because local farmers lack the resources to work it, leaving the country food insecure and many families trapped in a cycle of poverty. Tractor usage in Nigeria is ranked at 132

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