CropScope
Japan
Developed by NEC Corporation, CropScope is a digital agricultural solution that compiling farmer‘s field conditions and daily farming records, visualizing the growth status of crops, and supporting decision-making regarding risks related to crop yield and quality. By using accumulated farming data through sensors and Artificial Intelligence (AI), CropScope provides farming advice and predict harvest control, helps in disease prevention, contribute to reducing agricultural water and fertilizer use as well as increasing yields. It analyzes soil samples and suggests soil moisture status and preicts soil moisture content as well as performs farm comparision of vegetation information (NDCI) and weather. Additionally, CropScope also provides weather forecasts (temperature, relative air huidity, rain sensor, wind speed, wind direction and radiation sesnor) and crop insurance avisory to farmers. CropScope is mainly focused on tomato cultivation.
Digital Solution (DS) Category
Digital Agriculture
Digital Solution Type (sub-category)
Farm advisory services, AI-Big data based solutions, Pest and disease management, Weather forecasting, Farm management services
Delivery type (format)
Internet of Things / sensors
Artificial intelligence (AI)
Mobile app
Big Data
Cloud-based
DS supplier-user category
Business to business
Business to government
Type of entity (ICT developer-supplier)
IT/Telecomm
Name of supplier/developer
NEC Corporation
Primary Users
Farmers , Agribusiness / private company
Digital Solution Development Stage
Commercial stage (widespread use nationally)
Number of users or subscribers
800+ users, 1,385downloads(As of Jul 2, 2024) Source: Developer website
Measurable positive impact(s) by Digital Solution (DS) on target users and/or audience
The result in Italy using CropScope was 19% irrigation reduction as well as 23% yield increase. Source: Developer website
Digital Solution Geographic scope
Japan, Portugal, Spain, Italy, India, Vietnam, Thailand, Australia, USA, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Senegal, Turkey
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