DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT

WHY

Kenya, like many developing countries, has made little or no use of precision agriculture technology. Precision agriculture is an approach to farm management that uses information technology to ensure that the crops and soil receive exactly what they need for optimum health and productivity.

WHAT

The data driven strategy for precision agriculture is a roadmap to accelerate agriculture value chain development and modernization. The strategy includes a data strategy that defines data quality and data stock including non-traditional data usages (i.e. satellite images, mobility data). It also includes an AI application layer with use case landscape, an architecture for data sharing and a governance model.

IMPACT

Pest prevention through satellite images. Savings on inputs , through precision agriculture, often pays for the technology within a year for a large cropping operation and two to three years for smaller operations.