Geopotato
Bangladesh
GEOPOTATO is a geodata-driven decision support system that provides early alert to registered potato farmers for spraying preventive fungicide via SMS and voice message three days prior to a possible late blight attack. GEOPOTATO DSS combines satellite image processing data of potato crop biomass growth and real-time weather data from Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) to determine conducive environment for late blight attack. Alerts are delivered to farmers via SMS and voice message. Ensuring optimal fungicide spraying has economic and environmental benefits. The info is provided to farmers through web based and mobile application componenets of this service.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Farm advisory services, Precision agriculture, Weather forecasting services
Delivery type (format)
Web based platform
Mobile app
SMS services / Voice messaging
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
Community group
Name of supplier/developer
mPower Social Enterprises Ltd.
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (limited use)
Number of users or subscribers
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
Digital Solution Geographic scope
Few locations in Bangladesh
Name of Digital village(s), districts, communes where DS is used/deployed
On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)
DS Links to FAO, UN and other Development agencies projects, initiatives and programmes