An installed Irrigation Scheduling System
There are 667,000 farmers in the whole Peruvian coast that have 2.3ha each on average dedicated to agriculture, in a context of real water scarcity. These people mostly live in precarious conditions and with scarce scholarity levels. Their methods of irrigation are for the most part inadequate and non efficient.
The innovation consists in an irrigation scheduling system that provides farmers with direct indications on when and how much irrigate. Through a climate station, the system measures air temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, intensity of solar radiation, and rains.
These data are processed in a GIS platform that considers also soil characteristics and type of food produced, and gives recommendations directly to farmers through texts, e-mails or a tablet. The innovation is game changing because the farmer switches from a turn driven irrigation to a demand driven one.
