High-tech is helping African and Asian countries win battle against desert locusts
date:May 10, 2021
an app to help FAO track another dangerous agricultural pest, the Fall Armyworm.

In less than a month, Cressman and the developers created a simple smartphone app to allow anyone, even with little training, to collect locust data in the field. But, not every farmer has a cell phone and plenty of areas in East Africa are totally isolated from any network. So FAO also partnered with global GPS supplier Garmin, to modify a satellite data communicator that would overcome connectivity obstacles in
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