Digital Farmer Community vs VarScout

Digital Farmer Community platform aims at strengthening the Agriculture ecosystem in Qatar by creating a network of stakeholders and shared services among them to create value for all. Following are the main features of the Platform: Farm Data: Enables users to create digital records on the farms by geotagging structures such as Plots, Greenhouses, Wells etc. and add Operational data for the sown crops Knowledge Base: Users can create crop and context wise digital records of Best Practices to be followed on farms Pest Diagnosis: It is an image analytics-based solution wherein user can upload an image of the disease and pest infestation for Diagnosis Farm Advisory: It is a two-way interactive system which involves a Query Ticketing system wherein Farms can raise General Query/Incident tickets to be resolved by Experts and Instant Chat system wherein Farms & Experts can post content Farmers Community: It is a Chat forum wherein users can post text messages, upload images and send voice files in the common forum Crop Health: Provides an overview about the health status of crops at plot and greenhouse level derived based on the analytics done over multiple input data sets such as Satellite data, Sensor Data, Weather Data and Image Data Production Quantity: Provides insights to the user on the expected production quantity of the crops derived based on the analytics done over multiple input data sets such as Satellite data, Sensor Data, Weather Data and Operations Disease Predictions: Provides predictions to the user on the likelihood of occurrence of various crop disease and pests derived based on the threshold-based thumb rules Weather: Weather data is sourced from Qatar Meteorology Department (QMD) via Integration. User can see “Current Weather” data for present day, “Forecast Weather” data for 15 days and “Historical Weather” data stored in the System Market Prices (MME): Provides information on various Market Price types for a given commodity on a day so as to enable informed decision making

VarScout enables farmers, agronomists, extension workers or anyone to record the location of where a particular crop variety is growing. These variety observations help to create a publicly available, searchable database that shows where certain crop varieties are being grown. This data can help farmers, development organisations and policy makers better understand the distribution of certain crop varieties. The ultimate goal of the VarScout is to improve the understanding of farmer’s needs and to protect agro-biodiversity. Crops currently supported: Potato, Sweet Potato Countries currently supported: Kenya, Peru and Mozambique More crops, countries and languages will be added in the future.