Smart farming is a management concept focused on providing the agricultural industry with the infrastructure to leverage advanced technology, including big data, the cloud and the internet of things (IoT) for tracking, monitoring, automating and analyzing operations. Also known as precision agriculture, smart farming is software-managed and sensor-monitored. Smart farming is growing in importance due to the combination of the expanding global population, the increasing demand for higher crop yield, the need to use natural resources efficiently, the rising use and sophistication of information and communication technology and the increasing need for climate-smart agriculture.

It's no secret that the agriculture industry is vital to human life in any given country. Agriculture isn't just the world's leading source of food, it also provides us with raw materials such as textiles, wood, and oils, which are necessary for innumerable applications. Due to its significance, finding ways to make the agriculture industry more efficient and sustainable is essential to ensuring its longevity. Currently, the best way to accomplish this goal is to implement smart agriculture.

Smart agriculture refers to advanced farming management that utilizes innovative information and communication technologies, such as the Internet of things (IoT), big data, and the cloud, to automate processes, analyze operations, and monitor conditions. Smart agriculture helps farmers enhance the quality and quantity of their goods for optimal efficiency..

The sustainable village, eco-village, or green village is a village designed with consideration for social, economic, environmental impact (commonly referred to as the triple bottom line), and resilient habitat for existing populations, without compromising the ability of future generations to experience the same. The UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 defines sustainable villages as those that are dedicated to achieving green sustainability, social sustainability and economic sustainability. They are committed to doing so by enabling opportunities for all through a design focused on inclusivity as well as maintaining a sustainable economic growth. The focus also includes minimizing required inputs of energy, water, and food, and drastically reducing waste, output of heat, air pollution, CO2, methane, and water pollution.

The UN Environment Programme calls out that most cities today are struggling with environmental degradation, traffic congestion, inadequate urban infrastructure, in addition to a lack of basic services, such as water supply, sanitation, and waste management. A sustainable village should promote economic growth and meet the basic needs of its inhabitants, while creating sustainable living conditions for all. Ideally, a sustainable village is one that creates an enduring way of life across the four domains of ecology, economics, politics and culture.

Cities occupy just 3 percent of the Earth's land but account for 60 to 80 percent of energy consumption and at least 70 percent of carbon emissions. Thus, creating safe, resilient and sustainable cities is one of the top priorities of the Sustainable Development Goals. Priorities of a sustainable village include the ability to feed itself with a sustainable reliance on the surrounding natural environment and the ability to power itself with renewable sources of energy, while creating the smallest conceivable ecological footprint and the lowest quantity of pollution achievable. All of this is to be accomplished by efficiently using the land in ways such as composting used materials, recycling, and/or converting waste-to-energy. The idea is that these contributions will lead to a decrease of the village's impact on climate change.

Initial funds generated by Ukali LLC will be utilised to establish the structure to enable the execution of the vision, this includes Offices, Equipment as well as all the further research required to ensure the correct and most modern techniques are utilised in the manufacturing environment in the Hubs and the most relevant farming styles are implemented on the farms.

Further to this Ukali will finance all the required negotiations and leases to secure the rights to establish the HUBS and the farms in the various countries in Africa.

We will finance and develop the required infra-structure for the various farms and villages. These will be done with EPC contactors and run as PPP with the local governments, with the intention of eventually handing it over for the local populace to run and manage.

We project that the construction phase of each Hub will be approximately 2-3 years once the required infrastructure is in place. With this time line in mind, we envisage the first farms can be up and running by the end of 2028.