climate change

Site-specific planting dates for rice and corn.  SARAI generated improved planting calendar based on different approaches (cumulative rainfall, yield probability, and rainfall probability coupled with crop yield simulation approaches; and farmers’ practice), validated in Batac, Ilocos Norte; Los Baños , Laguna; Ligao City, Albay; and Butuan City, Agusan del Norte.  The planting dates can be …

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SARAI has developed the following mobile applications for easier access to information and technologies: BANATECH – a mobile app used to determine the harvest date of ‘Lakatan’ & ‘Saba’ bananas Smarter Pest Identification Technology (SPidTech) – an Android application which can be used to identify pests through face recognition protocols CAPHE (Coffee Application Harvest Estimator) …

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A model developed for estimating soil moisture deficit in annual crops. This cost-efficient soil moisture monitoring system is a fabrication of Arduino-based soil moisture meter and gypsum blocks. The fabricated units will be installed in selected SARAI sites for the monitoring of soil water deficit.