Agriculture dominates AI use cases in Kenya, report shows

Agriculture dominates AI use

Farmers given data-driven advice that seeks to help them optimise productivity.

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Uptake of new-age technology Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Kenya is concentrated in the agricultural sector with the involvement of machine learning to equip local farmers with data-driven advice that seeks to aid them optimise productivity, a new report now shows.

The ‘AI for Africa’ report published by the Global System for Mobile Communications Association (GSMA), an association of mobile network operators, shows that agriculture and food security takes up 49 percent of all AI deployments followed by climate action and energy use cases at 26 percent and 24 percent, respectively.

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Note: The results are not exact but very close to the actual.