SupPlant to help 500,000 Kenyan maize-growers avoid crop failure

• Author: ZEV STUB
• Published date: 06 October 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Afula-based SupPlant's new sensor-less technology collects and analyzes hyperlocal climatic, plant, and irrigation data to offers extremely low-cost Irrigation recommendations, weather forecast and crop stress alerts, as well as AI-enabled agronomic guidance, to make smallholders more resilient to climate change.

SupPlant partnered with PlantVillage, which is part of Penn State University, to reach these farmers, who represent a portion of the nearly half a billion farmers who grow on less than 2 hectares worldwide. PlanetVillage is working with partners in Kenya reaching 9 million farmers each week. By 2022, Supplant intends to serve at least 2 million smallholders across Africa and India.

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