In Trinidad, a regional model for how apps can help farmers
One of the main issues farmers face is the lack of data on their land and crops, and the same thing could be said of the national level. One solution for this are ICT toold which provide cheap, fast and reliable information on crops and yelds both to farmers and researchers or governements. AgriNeTT is an e-agriculture project that focuses on empowering the agriculture sector through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).
AgriNeTT built an Agriculture Open Data Repository that houses different data sets from institutions and associations, including farm level production data, commodity prices and volumes, farm land spatial data, soils, weather, pest and diseases tracking data. A prime objective of this platform is to create a central repository for agriculture data in which the data sets can be visualized in different ways and where local developers can build applications that are useful to the national community.
AgriNeTT has a wide spectrum of apps tailored for farmers and for their different needs: AgriExpense provides farmers with tools for farm financial management, AgriPrice provides information on crop prices, and AgriMaps provides recommendations on which crops are most suited for the farm.
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