GREENSYNERGY Is Bringing AI and Automation to Ogun State’s Farms

Babatunde Emmanuel Odunayo didn’t set out to just farm. He set out to change how farming works.

GREENSYNERGY, the Ogun State agritech startup he founded, sits at an unusual intersection: a company that grows crops commercially while also building the software and AI tools that make farming more manageable for others. Peppers, tomatoes, plantain, and oil palm are part of the operation, but the technology powering those fields is what makes GREENSYNERGY worth paying attention to.

The startup builds custom web and mobile applications alongside AI-powered automation tools designed to take the friction out of farm management. The tools handle routine processes, improve data collection, support crop monitoring, and help farmers make better decisions without needing a data science background to do it. The goal is straightforward: reduce manual work, give farmers cleaner information, and help them use their resources more precisely through things like smart irrigation and digital monitoring systems.

What adds another layer to the story is what GREENSYNERGY is doing at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. Through the Undergraduate AgricBusiness Training initiative, known as UGAT, Babatunde has trained and mentored more than 200 students at FUNAAB, pairing practical agricultural skills with the kind of digital tools that are reshaping the sector. For a university sitting in the middle of one of Nigeria’s most agriculturally active states, that pipeline matters.

The broader argument GREENSYNERGY is making is one the continent is slowly coming around to: that the future of African agriculture isn’t about choosing between traditional farming and technology, it’s about combining them. Climate-resilient practices, AI-assisted decision making, and value chain management aren’t separate tracks. They’re the same track.

For Ogun State, which has significant agricultural land and a growing base of young people interested in agribusiness, a startup building this kind of integrated model locally is a development worth documenting. GREENSYNERGY is still early, but the foundation it’s laying, technology, training, and commercial farming under one roof, points toward something that could scale meaningfully.