New App Detects Rainfall, Helps 80,000 African Farmers
- Anna Mae
- Aug 3, 2016
- 1 min read
''Farmers across six Sub-Saharan African countries can now increase their yields thanks to a new mobile app predicting rainfall and indicating optimum fertilizing and harvesting times.
The app, created by Ignitia — a tropical weather forecast tech company, uses the information and communication technology (ICT) weather forecasting model, through which GPS-specific forecasts are produced. Ignitia’s innovation boasts an 84 percent weather prediction rate; a remarkable advancement, considering traditional global weather models predict weather at less than half the accuracy...''
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