Using flying sensors and crop growth models to increase food production in Kenya

The practicality of the training course “Using flying sensors and crop growth models to increase food production in Kenya’’ helps build the technical skills lacking so much in advancing smart agriculture. It is also relevant in terms of an updated 21st century training that will attract young farmers. Through the use of the drones and the open data sources, trainees will be equipped with skills to enable fact based rather than intuitive based decision making in farm management. Farmers will be able to get information on the needs of various sections of the farm and make decisions on where to apply limited inputs such as water, fertilizer, seeds, labour etc.