23 Sep 2018

Women continue to do great in occupying male dominated positions in the job market.

Ms Theresa Mokoka is one such woman.

She is a farmer who had a chance to be a panelist at the Food and Drink Business Europe Conference early this month in Dublin, Ireland.

The conference was held under theme; Collaborating for an Innovative Food Island.

The main aim of the gathering was to discuss new technology with food production and the agricultural sector at technology levels.

“Being the first African speaker gave me goose bumps.  

However, my presentation was based on a rich topic: Promotion Smart Farming in Africa and the World,” she noted.

Ms Mokoka said the smart agriculture technology played a pivotal role in food production worldwide.

She said the world needed to inform itself with the use of technology to broaden the food production scope.
 

Ms Mokoka, a native from Molepolole, said artificial intelligence was a major key in helping food and farming production obstacles.

“The artificial intelligence is basically used to predict food production in a certain area,” she explained.
 

The female farmer mentioned that controlled environments farming yielded high production and the people needed to be enlightened about such factors.

“By 2050 the world population will have doubled, hence the world needs to find more sophisticated and effective ways to produce food,” she elaborated.

The 26-year-old added that the population growth was not at par with food and farming production.

She said the world’s population was rapidly escalating while the food production was low, hence the world needed leveraging technology to maximise production.

“A productive and socially sustainable agricultural sector is crucial for shaping healthy diets with human nutrition,” Ms Mokoka noted.

Ms Mokoka noted that modern agriculture and food systems have a firm hand in food and farming production.

She said thus the world was generating an abundance of affordable food to prevent hunger and reduce malnutrition.

“Kinds of sensors are being used to monitor the essential production state; shipping time and most importantly temperature,” she said.

Meanwhile, Ms Mokoka said despite all the great things in the agricultural sector, there are challenges.

“No entity wants to support food security, I have approached a few government and private entities, but no one offered sponsorship, hence I am self-sponsored,” Ms Mokoka concluded. Ends