GEOPOTATO by | Aug 14, 2019 Edit digital intervention Digital Intervention Title Digital Intervention Excerpt GEOPOTATO is a subscription-based geodata-driven decision support service to provide early alert for spraying preventive fungicide via SMS & Voicemail 3 days prior late blight infection to potato farmers. Description Visual Text GEOPOTATO, an early warning system, automatically computes weather data (humidity, temperature etc.) coming from Automatic Weather Stations and uses satellite image processing data to measure potato crop biomass growth. Then it determines whether the existing weather parameters are conducive for late blight attack. If the conditions are favorable to cause late blight, preventive advice is sent 3 days in advance via SMS and voice messages to subscribed farmers. Featured Image Types of Digital Intervention Decision support agriculture Digital advisory Digital analytics and modelling Digital disease monitoring and control Digital Financial Services Digital mechanization Farm management software Market systems Remote sensing Robotics -- Parent -- Add New Food system components Aggregation Consumption Distribution Policy Processing Production -- Parent -- Add New Food system activities Agricultural extension Agricultural subsidy provision Animal disease management Climate change Crop diseases management Crop production Farm inputs Finance Genetic resources Labor force Livestock production Natural resource management Nutrition information Packaging Post-harvest management Regulation and standards Scientific knowledge Tractor services provision Trade and market information Transport Urbanization Waste management -- Parent -- Add New Primary users Extension agents Farmers Financial institutions Government ministries Researchers Traders -- Parent -- Add New Intervention inception number of users Intervention current number of users Country/ies of implementation Afghanistan Bangladesh Bolivia Burkina Faso Benin Cameroon China Colombia Costa Rica Côte d’Ivoire El Salvador Ethiopia Ghana Grenada Guatemala Haiti Honduras India Indonesia Italy Jamaica Kenya Malaysia Mali Malawi Mexico Mongolia Mozambique Myanmar Nepal Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Pakistan Peru Philippines Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone South Africa South Sudan Sri Lanka Tanzania Thailand Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Uganda United States of America Vietnam Zambia Zimbabwe Region(s) of implementation Africa Asia / Pacific Europe and Central Asia Latin America and the Caribbean Middle East North America Geolocation Address Add new Evidence of Impact Evidence narrative Visual Text GEOPOTATO service provides precise fungicide spray advice that reduces both economic and environmental consequence of fungicide use. Furthermore, due to the high precision of our solution, we provide spray advice only when compulsory, greatly reducing the frequency. Wageningen University & Research described in ‘Geopotato Evaluation Report 2018-19’ that GEOPOTATO farmers have able to increase average yield increase is 15% in last season. They also Average financial benefit for individual farmer is 200 Euros for GEOPOTATO service receiving farmers in comparison to Non- GEOPOTATO farmers. Precision Agriculture for Development ran a Randomized Control Trial and reported in ‘GeoPotato Final Report’ that farmers who received branded alert were 18% more likely to purchase product of that brand. Intervention evidence of economic impact Increased volume of sales Increased yield Increased market access Increased access to credit Increased transaction cost Increased production cost Decreased market access Reduced transaction cost Reduced production cost Received higher product prices Decreased volume of sales I do not know Decreased yield None of the above Intervention evidence of environmental impact Increased efficiency in agro chemical use Increased resilience to climate shocks Increased access to weather information Increased access to agricultural information services in real time Decreased efficiency of agro chemical use Decreased resilience to climate shocks Decreased access to weather information I do not know
