The vital agricultural sector in Mexico is facing challenges including climate change, reduced yields, and outdated farming practices. The Government of Mexico required an agristack to promote financial inclusion and drive technological innovation among Mexican farmers. FIRA was mandated for this task. FIRA deployed Cropin Cloud platform to develop a digital skills transfer model to build resilience and strengthen the agricultural ecosystem.
The role of agristack – Cropin’s platform
To meet this ambitious goal, FIRA deployed Cropin’s user-centric platform to create a robust subscription model powered by Global Hitss. This simple and intuitive platform offered essential services like georeferencing, monitoring, and agroclimatic information with a single sign-on experience. We seamlessly integrated vast amounts of data—from satellite imagery and weather stations to field-level observations—to serve a diverse range of users. Cropin enabled project management at scale (400,000 farmers) including rigorous area audit process, near real-time monitoring, data-driven insights. It became a powerful tool for communication and collaboration.
How we did it:
Cropin’s user-friendly interface made it easy for users of all technical backgrounds to adopt and leverage the new technology. We enabled a digital skills transfer model for:
- Remote crop health monitoring: Our digital field notebook captured spatial information from farms, which became the input for remote satellite and meteorological monitoring.
- Actionable intelligence:Â Our contextualized deep learning models derived insights from massive datasets of over 38 raw indices, providing powerful trend analysis
- Proactive disease management: The Disease Early Warning System (DEWS) indicated the probability of disease occurrence based on historical and forecasted weather data.
- Climate & weather insights: We provided a wealth of weather data, including 40 years of historical climatology, as well as nowcasts and 6-month forecasts.
- Regional intelligence:Â We provided regional insights to empower better policy formulation and financial decision-making.
Results: a data-driven approach for tangible results
Our competitively priced platform ensured accessibility for a large number of users, delivering tangible value. Cropin provided farmers with real-time insights on crop health, soil moisture, and weather conditions, as well as personalized advice for specific crops and regions and disease early warning systems. The platform also provided additional insights on extreme weather events, such as tropical cyclones, cold waves, dog days, and ENSO forecasts empowering farmers to build resilience.
- Empowered producers: The platform has the capacity to empower up to 400,000 producers
- Extensive coverage: Supported 100+ crops and analyzed 78 million grids across Mexico.
- Core platform services: Area Audit; Field Notebook; Satellite monitoring of farms
- Unparalleled data depth: We analyzed over 40 weather parameters and 38+ raw indices
- Agroclimatic information: Provided historical data ranging from the last 10 days to monthly averages for the past 40 years; nowcast and six months forecasts. Weather bulletins covering daily and weekly weather updates
