Water next Tuesday: eLEAF's irrigation-advice service in the Gezira Scheme in Sudan
Many people in Sudan communicate with text messages on their mobile phones – mostly with friends and family. But a small number of farmers in the Gezira irrigation scheme, near Khartoum, are testing a new service: a weekly SMS that tells them when to irrigate their crops. The 44 farmers have taken p...
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
2017
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| author | Dost, Remco Khalifa, Amgad |
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| description | Many people in Sudan communicate with text messages on their mobile phones – mostly with friends and family. But a small number of farmers in the Gezira irrigation scheme, near Khartoum, are testing a new service: a weekly SMS that tells them when to irrigate their crops. The 44 farmers have taken part in a pilot project with support from CTA. The project tested an ingenious idea: it monitored the water needs of the farmers’ crops by satellite and sent them a message telling them when to irrigate. The advice came as a clear instruction such as “you need to irrigate 5 days from now.” Such instructions are especially useful for the many farmers in the area who hold other jobs and cultivate their land part-time. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1007772025-03-13T09:46:47Z Water next Tuesday: eLEAF's irrigation-advice service in the Gezira Scheme in Sudan Dost, Remco Khalifa, Amgad Many people in Sudan communicate with text messages on their mobile phones – mostly with friends and family. But a small number of farmers in the Gezira irrigation scheme, near Khartoum, are testing a new service: a weekly SMS that tells them when to irrigate their crops. The 44 farmers have taken part in a pilot project with support from CTA. The project tested an ingenious idea: it monitored the water needs of the farmers’ crops by satellite and sent them a message telling them when to irrigate. The advice came as a clear instruction such as “you need to irrigate 5 days from now.” Such instructions are especially useful for the many farmers in the area who hold other jobs and cultivate their land part-time. 2017-12-31 2019-04-15T12:25:25Z 2019-04-15T12:25:25Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100777 en Open Access application/pdf Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation Dost, Remco, Khalifa, Amgad. 2017. Water next Tuesday: eLEAF’s irrigation-advice service in the Gezira Scheme in Sudan. CTA Technical Brief 8. Wageningen: CTA |
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| title | Water next Tuesday: eLEAF's irrigation-advice service in the Gezira Scheme in Sudan |
| title_full | Water next Tuesday: eLEAF's irrigation-advice service in the Gezira Scheme in Sudan |
| title_fullStr | Water next Tuesday: eLEAF's irrigation-advice service in the Gezira Scheme in Sudan |
| title_full_unstemmed | Water next Tuesday: eLEAF's irrigation-advice service in the Gezira Scheme in Sudan |
| title_short | Water next Tuesday: eLEAF's irrigation-advice service in the Gezira Scheme in Sudan |
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