المدارس الحقلية الرقمية

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About this app

Farmer Field Schools Platform (FFS) is an educational platform links Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems and Internet of Things (IoT) to the platform and provides developed easy accessible educational system. This system provides live and offline workshops that explain the best agricultural practices and techniques; targeting the Saudi farmer for enhancing quality of crops in KSA.
People in charge of the platform are a group of experts in agriculture, affiliated to Agricultural Department, Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture.
Detailed Explanation of The Application:
Smart Farmer Field Schools are considered the perfect model through which all modern methods and techniques are presented to farmers. It is also the most effective means to provide education and training to them. Through this platform, farmers can perfectly apply (Good Agricultural Practice), GLOBALG.A.P., which F.A.O. recommends.
On the platform (FFS), modern techniques and methods are presented for implementation, in addition to field identification of several diseases and pests that decrease, damage and harm the crops production, resulting into catastrophic loss for the farmers as well as harm for national economy.
Therefore, this kind of smart farmer field schools is necessary to be established in the farms all over the kingdom; through which educational training workshops are held, and to use (AI) application on the cell phones; for technical consultation and guidance.
Creating applied agricultural models and communicating knowledge among farmers is the basis of forming an effective agricultural community. Enhancing farmers skills of using modern digital- based- agricultural means, and transforming experiences among other farmers lead to society and country progress, and achieve national goals of sustainability. These goals represented in contributing to agricultural policies goals and enhancing Agriculture and Rural Sector contribution to Economic Development; as following:
1. Rational use of resources (land, water, pesticides, fertilizers, etc.), optimal use of resources to enhance the contribution of Agricultural Sector to productive economic development and realize sustainable development, increase agricultural production to increase contribution of agriculture to national production, and increase growth rates.
2. Increasing agricultural income and raising living standard of rural communities, developing sociocultural life and spread spirit of being proud of rural life.
3. Securing food products and improving their quality and competitiveness in both local and global markets.
4. Integrating digital technologies into agricultural process for increasing economic returns.
5. Developing rural leaderships capable of using digital technologies in agricultural process and communicating knowledge to others, resulting into building communities able to of addressing their problems, relying on their own skills and abilities.

What’s new

- Improved live broadcast video
- Added the Scientific content
- Improvements in application performance