Posts on the Topic "extensionists"
SoilMapp for iPad: soil information at your fingertips
26/05/2017
SoilMapp is an app for iPad that lets users find out soil information such as how much water the soil holds, its clay content and acidity, among other attributes related to agricultural productivity and land management. The app enables users to view maps, photographs, satellite images, tables and...
FAO Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data (WaPOR) beta version portal is now online
18/05/2017
The first beta release of the FAO Water Productivity through Open access of Remotely sensed derived data (WaPOR) portal is available as of 14 April 2017. The FAO portal monitors and reports on agriculture water productivity over Africa and the Near East. The portal provides open access to the water...
Six Ways Drones Are Revolutionizing Agriculture
05/05/2017
By 2050, there will be 9.6 billion people in the planet. Feeding the whole worldwide population will be a central challenge for the next generations. Farmers will have to think of ways to reduce the inputs, for example water and pesticides, while maintaining the outputs. Drones can be of great help...
AGRIinsight | Connecting People - to Place - to Opportunity
26/04/2017
AGRIinsight is a UK-based company developing innovative technologies to be used in emerging markets. AGRIinsight has developed an online platform that has a powerful geo-visualisation interface, relevant map overlays and search and communication tools that enables users to store, visualise and...
Drone Technology is aiding data collection for crop breeding in Africa
25/04/2017
Preliminary results of a study shows that using drone technology could cut labour and costs spent in collecting data for maize breeding by at least 10%. The SciDevNEt reported that The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center ( CIMMYT) in Southern Africa has adopted the use of unmanned...
Using remote sensing to track water productivity
20/04/2017
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed a publicly accessible near real time database (WaPOR) using satellite data that allows monitoring of agricultural water productivity. The WaPOR monitors and reports on agriculture water productivity over Africa and the...
Focus on technology and agriculture : EU Farming Getting Smarter
20/04/2017
In the recent special report entitled ' EU Farming getting smarter' the EURACTIV.com covers on technology and agriculture. The publication reports that European Union is exploring ways of helping its Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) enter the digital era after 2020. However, there are numerous...
CTA supports drone operations in Benin, DRC, Ghana, Tanzania and Rwanda
18/04/2017
The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ( CTA) is informing the community that it has established a supporting centre for drone operations in Benin, DRC, Ghana, Tanzania and Uganda. CTA is partnering with a French Company Airinov in this project. Drones are also called the...