Surigao del Sur vegetable growers tap smartphone apps to wipe pests
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur — For years, local vegetable growers in the agricultural town of San Miguel in Surigao del Sur have followed a costly and exhausting routine. This practice constitutes dousing their plots with synthetic pesticides every week just to keep invasive insects at bay. Now, local growers are swapping routine chemical drenching for digital diagnostics, turning their smartphones into on-demand crop agronomists to protect their harvest and cut production overhead. The program is under an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in Caraga, in tandem with North Eastern Mindanao State University (NEMSU) and the municipal […]...Keep on reading: Surigao del Sur vegetable growers tap smartphone apps to wipe pests
SAN FRANCISCO, Agusan del Sur — For years, local vegetable growers in the agricultural town of San Miguel in Surigao del Sur have followed a costly and exhausting routine. This practice constitutes dousing their plots with synthetic pesticides every week just to keep invasive insects at bay. Now, local growers are swapping routine chemical drenching for digital diagnostics, turning their smartphones into on-demand crop agronomists to protect their harvest and cut production overhead. The program is under an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) in Caraga, in tandem with North Eastern Mindanao State University (NEMSU) and the municipal […]...
Keep on reading: Surigao del Sur vegetable growers tap smartphone apps to wipe pests
Keep on reading: Surigao del Sur vegetable growers tap smartphone apps to wipe pests
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