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His internet offering has helped boost
profits for rural farmers. “We have succeeded in bringing up commercial
farming groups. People are now making their own living.”
Annerose manages the affairs of the
company, but he remains interested in the development of farmers and his
countrymen. He serves on various local and intyernational agri-business
committees.
Manobi offers web services over a mobile
network to commercial farmers. Apart from assisting in setting up new
businesses, the company also trains farmers. “They (farmers) usually join
the company as students or as semi-skilled people,” Annerose says.
The Dakar-born Annerose has partners in
different parts of Africa and abroad. He also has strategic partners in
South Africa.
He likes soccer and is proud of his
national soccer team, which took part in the 2002 Soccer World Cup jointly
hosted by South Korea and Japan. The team was the only African nation that
reached the quarterfinals.
He obtained a PhD in Biology from the
University of Paris XI. He has a degree in
computer sciences and describes himself as “permanently hooked into the
field of ICTs”.
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