Issue 13:
September 2003
Issue 13: Microfinance
Projects
Phytomonitoring is a management information technology that provides an orchard or vineyard grower with invaluable and real time information about the dynamics of crop physiological status, by a continuous analysis of plant growing trends, inte...
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Guruduth Banavar, the director of IBM’s India Research Laboratory, wanted to allow people who struggle with literacy to create websites. So he and his colleagues have devised a system based on what is known as 'voice extensible markup language'...
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Open Hydroponics is a high-frequency (drip) irrigation combined with balanced fertiliser application system that adopts principles of soil-less hydroponics to field based production system. This system is generally known as advanced fertigation...
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In 1998, KickStart developed a line of manually operated MoneyMaker irrigation pumps that allow farmers to easily pull water from a river, pond or shallow well (as deep as 25 feet deep), pressurise it through a hose pipe (even up a hill) and ir...
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Nano Ganesh is a GSM-based remote control system to control water pumps for agriculture. Farmers can use a mobile phone or landline to control the flow of water pumps in response to availability of electricity, rain or inaccessibility to due flo...
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FLOW-AID contributes to sustainability of irrigated agriculture by developing, testing in relevant conditions, and fine-tuning through feed-back, an irrigation management system that can be used at farm level in situations where there is a limi...
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The network builds regional institutional and human capacity in integrated water resources management through training, education, research and outreach by harnessing the complementary strengths of member institutions in the region and elsewher...
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Kona Pacific Farmers Cooperative (KPFC) represents 100 farmers and processors on Hawaii island and offers products that has made the South Kona region famous: Kona coffee and macadamia nuts. These lands have been used for processing agricultura...
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DigitalICS, a mobile-phone based application has been designed, developed, evaluated and successfully deployed at CEPCO, a coffee cooperative in Oaxaca, Mexico. The system being used to inspect and evaluate more than 1,000 farms. Inspectors can...
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In two years Coprokazan has managed to double its production and its sales from 16 million Francs CFA to 32 million Francs CFA (nearly 50,000 Euro), partly due to increased and improved marketing and promotional activities based on ICT. Coproka...
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