Ethiopia uses satellite technology Climate-Smart Agriculture to help farmers

Tigrai Online, Ethiopian News, Nov. 9, 2016

Ethiopia is slowly integrating modern technology to Ethiopian traditional farming methods which goes back thousands of years. The government and the farmers are working together to help farmers produce more farm products. At the same time the modern system which uses satellite data to analyze soil, moisture, and other variables will help protect the lad from degradation.

The following article and video posted on the World Bank website shows more details how the new farming system works.

EthioSIS, Ethiopia’s catalogue of national soil data, uses satellite technology and extensive soil sampling to produce high resolution soil maps for each region.

Since 2012, soil researchers have fanned out across Ethiopia’s countryside to collect data on soil types, soil fertility and agro-ecological conditions. Their findings are being added to the Ethiopian Soil Information System or EthioSIS, a comprehensive catalogue of national soil data. EthioSIS which is funded by the World Bank-supported Agriculture Growth Program, uses satellite technology and extensive soil sampling to produce high resolution soil maps for each region. To date, 438 districts or woredas—approximately 63% of the country’s agricultural woredas—have been mapped, including in the Amhara and Oromia regions.

Ethiopia’s catalogue of national soil data, uses satellite technology and extensive soil sampling to produce high resolution soil maps for each region to help Ethiopian farmers.

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