Smartirrigation Vegetable vs GECSA

This app is designed to help vegetable growers in Florida and Georgia, USA to generate irrigation schedule recommendations based on real-time weather and short-term forecasted data to better meet the plant water needs of a given period, conserving water while also minimizing nutrient leaching from the root zone due to excessive irrigation. Users can register irrigation systems in the app and receive notifications regarding irrigation schedules changes due to differences in the irrigation demand for the next days.

GECSA (GEorgia Climate Services for Agriculture) app provides essential climate services for the agricultural stakeholders, especially farmers, in Georgia. It is a personalized, farm-level, agromet services to individual farmers, including weather and seasonal forecasts, irrigation decision support, pest and disease early warning, and farming advisories to cope with forecasted climate and pest and disease risks. This app is also used by ICC (extension) officers to collect agronomic data from the fields and transmit them to the central database of Rural Development Agency (RDA). This app was developed together with the national partner agencies (RDA, National Environmental Agency, Scientific-Research Center of Agriculture, National Food Agency) and private sectors (Georgian Farmers' Association and others), funded by the UNDP Georgia.