MANILA (Commodity Online): Smartphones to suggest guidelines to rice farmers with the new Nutrient Manager for Rice Application (NMRiceApp) launched by the Agricultural Training Institute (ATI) through the country’s Department of Agriculture, as a product of ongoing partnership with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI).
This application is an advanced version of the Nutrient Manager for Rice Mobile (NMRiceMobile), which was availableonly for ordinary mobiles.
The idea behind the use of smartphones and NMRiceApp is that farmers won't need to go to their towns or cities to get site-specific nutrient management advice via the Internet, especially when far from their farms.
With ATI's support, IRRI aims to further examine the potential of smartphones to reach farmers with fertilizer guidelines in eight partner municipalities through its cyber village project in the Philippines.
