Status: Ongoing (2014-2020)
Funder: Netherlands Space Office & Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)
Scope: Tanzania
Project Website Reference: sikia.techforce.nl/
SAGCOT Integrated Knowledge and Information for Agriculture (SIKIA) project started on 1st October 2016 and will run for 3 years. The project employs the latest technology to provide reliable information to rice farmers in Tanzania (SAGCOT area) to increase their production and productivity.
The goal of this project is to realize the delivery of actionable information services, acquired from satellite geodata (e.g. environmental, crop status via Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and plot boundaries information), augmented by more detailed data acquisition under the clouds (multispectral agronomic information) and web-based information.
The project is implemented in partnership with TechForce Innovations B.V, Netherlands; Milan Innovincy B.V., Netherlands; Kadaster International, Netherlands and Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), Kenya
Expected project results include:16 cropping calendars
prepared, printed and distributed to District, wards, villages and Irrigators Organizations offices
Robert Mwaluseke
Program Assistant – Tanzania
robert.mwaluseke@kilimotrust.org