Water next Tuesday: eLEAF's irrigation-advice service in the Gezira Scheme in Sudan
| dc.creator | Dost, Remco | |
| dc.creator | Khalifa, Amgad | |
| dc.date | 2017-12-31 | |
| dc.date | 2019-04-15T12:25:25Z | |
| dc.date | 2019-04-15T12:25:25Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T19:03:21Z | |
| dc.description | Many people in Sudan communicate with text messages on their mobile phones – mostly with friends and family. But a small number of farmers in the Gezira irrigation scheme, near Khartoum, are testing a new service: a weekly SMS that tells them when to irrigate their crops. The 44 farmers have taken part in a pilot project with support from CTA. The project tested an ingenious idea: it monitored the water needs of the farmers’ crops by satellite and sent them a message telling them when to irrigate. The advice came as a clear instruction such as “you need to irrigate 5 days from now.” Such instructions are especially useful for the many farmers in the area who hold other jobs and cultivate their land part-time. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/100777 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/169514 | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation | |
| dc.rights | Open Access | |
| dc.source | Dost, Remco, Khalifa, Amgad. 2017. Water next Tuesday: eLEAF’s irrigation-advice service in the Gezira Scheme in Sudan. CTA Technical Brief 8. Wageningen: CTA | |
| dc.title | Water next Tuesday: eLEAF's irrigation-advice service in the Gezira Scheme in Sudan | |
| dc.type | Brief |