New Digital Tool Tracks Agricultural Production in Puerto Rico

By News Is My Business

The USDA Caribbean Climate Hub at the International Institute of Tropical Forestry, in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture, has developed an online tool to visualize annual agricultural production data across Puerto Rico, reports News Is My Business.

Climate Hub Director William Gould explained that the data displayed by the Agricultural Statistics tool is an interactive platform which shows the location and production of the majority of agricultural products harvested in Puerto Rico, in map and table format.

“The information displayed by the tool can be used to assess trends and visualize the distribution of crops for schools, researchers, and planners; and help support sustainable agriculture in a changing climate,” he said.

Agricultural Statistics was developed through a collaboration between the Puerto Rico Department of Agriculture and the USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry. This collaboration capitalizes on the geospatial analytical expertise of the Climate Hub with the Agriculture Department’s information-gathering capacity, project representatives said.

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