How to Grow Food from Microchips and Data Analytics [Photo]

This photo shows it all – it tells you how to grow good food from microchops and data analytics.

Do you know one company that is leading the push in Africa? It is Zenvus.

Zenvus is an intelligent solution for farms that uses proprietary electronics sensors to collect soil data like moisture, nutrients, pH etc and send them to a cloud server via GSM, satellite or Wifi. Algorithms in the server analyze the data and advice farmers on farming. As the crops grow, the system deploys special cameras to build vegetative health to help detection of drought stress, pests and diseases. The data generated is aggregated, anonymized and made available via subscription for agro-lending, agro-insurance, commodity  trading to banks, insurers and investors.