How farmers use the IoT to stop disease

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        Insight, when farmers need it
        In July 2017, Bosch Japan launched Plantect™, a monitoring and disease-prediction system for greenhouse farming. The biggest threat these farmers face is crop disease. For example, tomatoes are prone to various infections, among which fungal diseases are the most common. Fighting these is challenging, because often farmers do not know there is an issue until it is too late.

        It’s an age-old problem. Take one of history’s biggest agriculture disasters, the Irish Potato Famine. Farmers could only tell that their crops were affected after they had pulled the shriveled, inedible tubers out of the ground. Despite the massive technological transformations of the past 170 years, early prediction of crop disease remains a challenge.

        Modern farmers have pesticides and other agrochemical solutions at their disposal. But without the knowledge of when to use them, these are just blunt tools. It’s a choice between applying them just in case, which increases overheads and carries ecological implications, or getting caught out.


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