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Posts on the Topic "extensionists"

A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
ICTs for Agriculture - A review of CTA Annual Report
19/06/2017
The Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA) just published their annual report for 2016. This report focuses on the following thematic areas, (i) promoting agribusiness, (ii) ICTs for Agriculture, (iii) communication and knowledge sharing, (iv) policy engagement, (v) climate...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
Plantix lets farmers recognize plant diseases, pests and nutrient diffidences just by sending a picture
16/06/2017
Plantix is a plant diagnostic app developed by PEAT, a software company that uses geodata and crowdsourcing to provide ecological informations to farmers, researchers and stakeholders. Plant diseases and pests cause the loss of up to 30 % of the annual harvests. To tackle this issue Plantix uses...

30/ 06

2017

e-Agriculture webinar: Remote control of water pumps with mobile phones in India
India 30/06/2017

Date:30th of June – 3.30 PM CEST – 7PM IST

FAO Technical Cooperation Project (TCP) Emergency response to enhance technical capacity for early warning, monitoring and management of Fall Armyworm in Sri Lanka
Invitation to join the Workshop at WSIS Forum 2017 on eKrishok
30/05/2017
Dear Fellow Colleagues, Greetings from Bangladesh, Trust all are doing well. We are glad to share that BIID will host a session titled eKrishok: Making ICT Works for Agricultural Sector to Empower Farmers and Agro-SMEs during the WSIS Forum Meeting 2017 to be held during June 12-16, 2017 at Geneva...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
EM-DAT: The International Disaster Database
30/05/2017
The Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) was created by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), a leading repository of information on the impact of disasters, in 1988. The Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) is a free database containing worldwide data on the occurrence and...
A drone operator flies a drone at a farm at Tengeru, near the city of Arusha
Introducing the new FAOSTAT: the world's largest database of food and agriculture statistics
29/05/2017
FAO introduced a new and updated FAOSTAT website, making the world's most comprehensive statistical database on food, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, natural resource management and nutrition even more accessible. The updated web tool - in its fourth edition - incorporates multiple technology...