CropX aims to expand its deployment across the Latin America and Caribbean region by partnering with FarmAgro
Image: CropX and FarmAgro provide precisionAg tools such as automatising irrigation, soil and crop-specific management to Latin American farmers. Photo: courtesy of Catkin from Pixabay.
Agricultural analytics firm CropX has collaborated with agroforestry equipment provider FarmAgro to offer precisionAg tools for Latin American farmers.
The partnership will provide Latin American growers with advanced precisionAg tools such as automatising irrigation, soil and crop-specific management, Geo-tagging of agricultural land and other innovative solutions.
CropX has partnered with FarmAgro to extend its deployment across the Latin America and Caribbean region that covers around 205 million hectares.
CropX irrigation management tools will help FarmAgro to gather significant data from farmers around Central Americ. It will help better understand how climate change is impacting the agriculture in the region.
According to the FAO, the irrigated area in Latin America is expected to increase from 18 million to 22 million hectares by 2030.
CropX president John Vikupitz said: “Climatic variations across Central and Latin America are creating a new set of risks for farmers in the region.
“We are excited to collaborate with FarmAgro to help manage those risks and improve yields by increasing the penetration of our crop management tools in the entire Latin American market.”
FarmAgro provides Latin American farmers with precisionAg services based on the CropX farm management platform
Under the deal, FarmAgro provides Latin American farmers advanced precisionAg services based on the CropX farm management platform that incorporates data from its soil sensors with a comprehensive set of above-ground data layers such as weather, satellite imagery and crop models.
FarmAgro services comprise of irrigation management tools that offer crop’s growth stage, optimal planting and harvest date estimations and identification of early stage field variability.
Following the successful trials of the CropX platform on some of the main crops such as banana, coffee, sugarcane and pineapple in Costa Rica, FarmAgro aims to target the largest agricultural producers of these crops in Central America.
The company also intends to focus on other types of crops such as melons, watermelons, cantaloupes and mangoes.
FarmAgro is planning to expand CropX distribution to the entire Latin American region after deployment in Central America reaches the maximum.
FarmAgro strategy and marketing manager Cindy González said: “Our world faces enormous challenges that include a changing climate and limited natural resources, but advances in agtech and artificial intelligence can help farmers adjust to changing demands.”