Internet of Things Ushers Precision Farming In The Philippines

Who says agriculture is a low-tech enterprise?

Not conglomerate Calata Corp., which has partnered with Austrian firm Pessl Instruments GmbH to sow the seed of the cutting-edge Internet of Things (IoT) in Philippine farming, reports Angel Palpal-Iatoc and Ronnel W. Domingo on the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

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The partners will invest in an instrument that provides very localized weather forecasting, the iMetos weather station. This means precision forecasting, unlike the weather information provided by news reports.

The project aims to provide Filipino farmers intelligence-based farming to improve decision-making across the entire supply chain by providing real-time field data. The partners call this “agricultural IoT.”

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IoT applications are now making headway in the maritime industry (vessels connected to land bases), mining (remote equipment telling the home office when they need maintenance) and healthcare (remote monitoring of a patient).

“The Filipino farmer is still farming the old-fashioned way,” says Joseph Calata, president of Calata Corp. “We take it as a responsibility to modernize the face of Filipino farming.”

Read the full story on the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

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Avatar for Rodger Meyer Rodger Meyer says:

Many Philippine farmers don’t have any money, so it’s no surprise that they farm the old way. They spray their crops with a back pack sprayer. plow with ox in many areas. only near Manila do they use modern equipment like we do here in the USA.