The Northern Cape Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Department of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries and Manstral Agricultural Intelligence Solutions have partnered to come up with Extension Suite Online for extension practitioners in the country.
Extension Suite Online (ESO) is a Web Based Agriculture decision support system for extension practitioners. It assist them (extension practitioners) to acquire agricultural information on their finger tips, whiles serving farmers irrespective of where they are.
It also covers animal and plant production and GIS information that adequately bridge the gap between research, extension and the farmers.
Advantages of ESO
- Empower extension for better service delivery
- Repair the relationship of trust between extension and farmers
- Entrenched extension in agriculture in South Africa
- Contributing in improved Agricultural production
- Contribute to food security in the country
- And users who utilise the system use it extensively.
Since its inception in 2010 about 2011 extension practitioners have been trained in the country and 71 in the province. End
Issued by: Directorate Communication Services – Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Enquiries: Phemelo Manankong – External Communications Officer Tel: 053 802 5622 Cell 071 889 5112