HUB SmartFruit-ALC

Executive Summary

Climate change is causing problems for the agricultural sector in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). In 2019 the La Araucanía region in Chile reported a water deficit of 70% during the summer period, while in Costa Rica a water deficit of up to 50% was reported in certain regions of the country. These anomalies affect the fruit quality and yield of small family producers who do not have the technological tools to mitigate the effects of climate change. This project aims to generate a free access collaborative computer tool called OpenFruit, in order to effectively bring precision agriculture technologies, remote sensors and ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) to small fruit growers and fruit consultants in Chile and Costa Rica. This tool will allow the generation of new solutions and / or applications, aimed at developing new sectors or markets where entrepreneurs will have a predominant role. AgTech solutions can have a positive impact in the fight against poverty, the sustainable use of resources and adaptation / mitigation of climate change.

The technological solution

Technological tool that allows the integration of geospatial, meteorological, edaphic and productive data to generate alerts of productive problems and support the decision-making of fruit producers, with a view to increasing performance and / or resource use efficiency.

Results

Beneficiaries

• 130 small berry / berry producers (blueberry and raspberry) from Chile.
• 140 small producers of orange and papaya from Costa Rica.
• 2000 real and potential users of the OpenFruit platform.

Sustainable Development Goals

Main donors

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