This AI helps Kenyan farmers know when to plant their crops:
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When it comes to Africa, there is still great potential for productivity increases in agriculture. The number of small-holder farmers in Kenya could be between 5 million and 9 million peopleIn order to see how artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data could help those farmers, French consultancy firmThere are two agricultural seasons in the region and usually maize is the primary crop in both.
Violanda de Man, Innovation Manager at Agrics East Africa said the data gathered by AGRICS provided much of the information needed for the FARM project.“I receive SMS alerts on my phone so that I know how to do my farm work and my farm projects,” he said. We can provide and share the insights just to wait for the next few days, so that your crops are saved”“FARM has been developed with scalability in mind,” Van Velzen said, adding that Capgemini developed the system pro-bono and IBM has sponsored the FARM project.
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