How to Promote Agriculture through Translations

Agriculture by definition is an industry, science or practice in which animals and crops are raised for the purpose of providing food. The industry comprises of farmers who work in the field of agriculture and other stakeholders like the government, firms, NGOs and consumers. Over the years, the agriculture industry has changed greatly with growth of technology and support from the various stakeholders like NGOs who try to avail funds for promoting agriculture. This growth can be easily indicated in various countries with the growth of GDP (gross domestic product) as a result of technology. For example in South Africa agriculture was contributing 2.4% of the country’s GDP and while in Sub Sahara region it was contributing 17.1% by 2016. This seems minimal but of great value to the various countries.

Stakeholders Take On Agriculture

Agriculture over the years has been greatly improving worldwide thus one can say that the future lies in agriculture. Agriculture is one of the biggest employer worldwide. In continents like African agriculture employees 70% of East African and 60% of the population in Sub – Saharan Africa.

Such remarks may convince one that those in agriculture business find less hardship while doing their business. However, farmers have many lamentations to make on inter reacting with them say less earnings and yet a lot of energy and time are used, timely changes in seasons and inadequate information about agriculture.

However also other stakeholders like governments also complain about the unbecoming farmers who are so resistant to any change. Thus calling for a united unit of the stakeholders in order to achieve from the agriculture industry at large.

Translation a New Modern Hope for Agricultural Growth

Professional translation service are a necessity in doing justice to this duty. Stakeholders in agriculture have got a duty of working together in order to improve the industry. Challenges like resistance to change have got to be worked upon. This is through educating farmers in a number of languages that they understand best that is to say Lango, Arabic, Somali, Kirundi and many others. Perhaps the resistance is not as a result of wanting to resist but only resulting from lack of understanding best of the implications of the new changes that need to be well taught to these farmers for better results.

How Geographical Locations Dictate African Translation Services

Africa is 30.37 million km sq making it 14 times larger than Greenland with over 1.2 billion inhabitants who are rich in diversity when it comes to traditions, clothes, culture, food, color and definitely one we cannot overlook; languages especially when talking of African Translation services and no, Africa is not a country!

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Why you should opt for Professional African Languages Interpreting Services

The unfortunate incident where a tourist guide gave a fraudulent interpretation from English to Kiswahili of what a white tourist was saying before journalists in one of Africa’s sought after tourist destinations; The Serengeti National Park caused quite a stir in 2017.

The above was able to be pointed out however there are sadly so many other cases when it comes to interpreting situations from foreign languages to African languages and vice versa. This happens especially when people or businesses in need of effective communication in terms of African Languages Interpreting Services turn to whoever is available instead of seeking professional help.

How unprofessional African Languages Interpreting Services harm

This harms the service providers in question like it did to Tanzania’s tourism industry at that time. Potential tourists were a little skeptical as to what aids they would be assigned with in case they visited the Serengeti. This goes for any other kind of business where in case of any miscommunication, buyers or users of a service or product become skeptical and may unfortunately opt for the competitor’s product. understand.

Nelson Mandela’s would be 100^th birthday was recently celebrated, taking us back to his funeral in 2013 when people watching a live broadcast in South Africa noticed that the interpreter was merely making meaningless hand gestures and not communicating anything at all.

African Languages Interpreting Services — The man flapping his hands meaningless was a quack interpreter on Nelson Mandela’s 2013 funeral.

Another example here is facebook; a social media platform used by 16 million Nigerians every month, 12 million people in South Africa and 4.5 million in Kenya. It offers a translation slot under a post but the results are hilarious when the initial post is in an African language like Luganda and is translated into English. It seems funny in the beginning but kind of discourages users from clicking the translate icon again.

The solution for fraudulent interpretation services

It is advisable that a professional translation companies are approached for any kind of translation work; this could be translation, transcription, subtitling or interpreting when it comes to African Languages Interpreting Services.

It is in such companies that one finds experiences and qualified interpreters especially those specific to the client’s language of interest. Since there are over 1500 languages in Africa, it is paramount that the interpreter has the desired language as their mother tongue. This is important because interpreting is successful when done within context and observing the mannerisms and characteristics of a language spoken by people from a certain region. For example; the Afrikaans in South Africa differs a little from that of Namibia and Swahili in Tanzania defers from that spoken in Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda or the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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Have you heard of the Zexit? When Africa’s Leaders hold onto power.

France coercing Joseph Kabila to pull out of the coming presidential polls to take place in Congo while in the southern part of the continent, the ANC party members which is the ruling party in South Africa voting to oust the incumbent Jacob Zuma as the country’s president thus gaining it’s name, Zexit thus the phrase when Africa’s Leaders hold onto power.

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