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Microsoft subsidiary in deal with OCP Africa to enable smallholder farmers access skills and information via agri-digital services

The collaboration will enable smallholder farmers to gain access to skills and information through Agri-digital services, leveraging OCP Africa programs such as the Farmer Hub concept to support millions of farmers. OCP Africa will also collaborate with Microsoft to explore the use of big data, machine learning, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to build their data and AI platform to improve operational efficiency and better serve ecosystem stakeholders. [c]