FarmSmarter - feasibility study for extension supporting smallholder farmers in new developing territories.

FarmSmarter扩展项目旨在探索扩大D4Ag地理范围的潜力（农业数字化）“FarmSmarter”应用程序使用智能技术，包括机器学习，人工智能和数据分析。在发展中国家，文化的动态，缺乏获得资金的机会和信息传播不畅，使小农无法利用最先进的技术，FarmSmarter应用程序的初步开发得到了Innovate UK和海外发展援助（ODA）的支持，其目标是使发展中地区的小农能够获得综合的、特定地点的可持续农业信息。在尼日利亚进行的初步可行性研究通过创建一个全面的、可访问的农业数据和可持续农业建议数字资源，解决了小农的繁殖建议、作物病害识别、生产力和市场途径。FarmSmarter项目开发的自然进展是系统地探索新的领域，通过与每个地区的当地农业生态和市场专家的密切联系，该项目将为坚定的市场发展战略开辟一条道路，学术和研究伙伴关系，以及对区域小农的需求和生计条件进行知情评估，以应对不同的气候、地形和市场条件。随着气候变化的影响扩散，全球人口继续增长和城市化，这些地区的农民，他们是农村社区的中流砥柱，在未来取得成功。

The FarmSmarter extension project aims to explore the potential of extending the geographic reach of the D4Ag (Digitalisation for Agriculture) 'FarmSmarter' app using Smart technologies including machine learning, artificial intelligence and data analysis.In developing countries generally, dynamics of culture, lack of access to finance and poor information dissemination preclude smallholder farmers from leveraging state-of-the-art sustainable farming practices.Initial development of the FarmSmarter app has been supported by Innovate UK and Overseas Development Assistance (ODA), with the goal of enabling smallholders in developing regions to access integrated, site specific sustainable farming information. The initial feasibility study in Nigeria, has addressed propagation advice, crop disease identification, productivity, and routes to market of smallholder farmers through creating a holistic, accessible digital resource of agri-data and sustainable farming suggestions.The natural progression for the FarmSmarter project development is to systematically explore new territories, focussing on those with a predominance of smallholder farmers.Through close liaison with local agroecological and market experts in each region the project will create a pathway to firm market development strategies, academic & research partnerships and an informed assessment of regional smallholders' needs and livelihood conditions addressing diverse climate, topographical and market conditions.As the effects of climate change spread, and the global population continues to grow and become urbanized, it is imperative that farmers in these regions, who are the mainstay of rural communities, become successful in the future.