BY BUSINESS WRITER
THE Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) has launched an online permit application system, which allows customers to apply and receive electronic permits from anywhere.
The firm said last that the launch was a culmination of ongoing transformation from being a collector of levies to a driver of innovation within the agricultural sector, which started last year.
The development confirms AMA’s new orientation towards innovation and investing in creation of platforms that facilitate ease of doing business to stakeholders.
AMA said last week that through innovations like the app, the authority would strengthen service to stakeholders and help them face challenging situations like those brought about by Covid-19.
CEO Clever Isaya said the creation of an online permit application system aligned with the government’s modernisation thrust would be instrumental towards achieving Vision 2030.
“We are committed to helping our stakeholders with digital solutions so that they are successful in their agricultural endeavours,” he said.
“Our goal is to accelerate the growth of the agriculture sector and help it thrive by delivering value to our stakeholders and being responsive to problems bedevilling agric-markets as spelled in the Agriculture and Food Systems Transformation Strategy.”
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Accessible through the AMA website, the system is linked to relevant government departments and agencies for verification and security purposes, he said.
He said the ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement had been allocated a unique link to access the platform and check validity for all issued permits against issued customers’ permit numbers.
He said AMA had a packed programme of action that would see the rolling-out of several tech solutions this year to enable creation of new markets, orderly marketing of agricultural products and enhancement of productivity in contribution to the attainment of a middle-income economy by 2030.
