How weather data improve agriculture investment outcomes
Every farmer hopes for suitable weather conditions. However, Yemen's climate change is increasingly making weather unpredictable. Farmers can only adapt to prevailing conditions and prepare for future changes by depending on weather data. They can access such data from different sources, but ground weather stations provide the best. Their data is more accurate and localized to specific farm conditions, compared to satellite or radar data. In this article, we explore what weather data-driven agriculture investment is.
Weather, climate change and agriculture in Yemen
Overall, the weather is a critical enabler of agriculture both in Yemen and worldwide. It affects the full cycle of agricultural production from land preparation through planting, to harvesting. Most farmers recognize this, but what is less obvious is what they can determine from weather data. They also may not know how they can use that data to improve agricultural investment outcomes.
Yemen's climate change influences agricultural profitability by affecting crop growth, fertilizer application, pest, and disease control and field workability, etc. For profitable agriculture investment, Organic Yemen (OY) boasts vast experience and a wide network of ground weather stations.
What weather data offer agriculture investment
Weather stations in the United States provide farmers with daily, accurate weather data
Weather data covers a set of measured options providing useful information about crop and soil conditions for agricultural investment. These include:
Rainfall
Wind speed and direction
Relative humidity
Air and soil temperature
Evapotranspiration
Soil moisture
How farmers can use weather data
Predicted Development Stages of Spring Wheat
Farmers can use detailed and accurate data sets of such information for agricultural investment in four main ways. These include:
Tracking crop growth stage/status: For example by determining Growing Degree Days (GDD). Crops need appropriate amounts of light, moisture, and temperature during different growth stages. Farmers can use accurate and detailed historical, real-time, forecast weather data to time planting and track crop growth, etc.
Timing and applying fertilizers: When do you apply fertilizers? At what rate do you apply the fertilizer? In which form should you apply the fertilizer – liquid, powder, or granular? Farmers can use weather data to answer these questions. Mistiming application previously led to the loss of fertilizer nutrients. “Applications were made at the wrong time — everything else was right — and we lost nutrients big time,” lamented one, Clint Nester.
Controlling pests and diseases: Some Yemen weather conditions encourage pest and disease development and growth, potentially destroying crops. Farmers can incorporate weather forecasting into disease and pest models, and determine whether and when to apply controls. Pest models can match weather forecasts against optimal conditions for the occurrence of pests and diseases. A match triggers an action, for example, an alarm to the farmer indicating possible infection.
Field Workability: In every farming venture, some days are more suitable for fieldwork than others are. This depends on soil temperature and moisture. Accurate and detailed field-level weather data can help farmers to assess their field workability.
Weather data improve agriculture investment outcomes
Yemen weather data improve investment outcomes in several ways:
Weather data is critical when selecting the most appropriate growing location for specific crops. This helps to avoid crop failures due to unfavorable weather conditions.
Weather data also helps attract Yemen Impact investment. It proves the viability of an investment plan to investors based on incontestable historical weather data. This is critical where investment involves new crops with no previous examples of the same crops growing.
By enabling the easy tracking of crop growth, weather data guides a host of agronomic practices, including planting, irrigating, spraying, and harvesting. For example, weather data ensure applying fertilizer at the correct time, rate and form. This guarantees effective resource use, minimization of costs, and maximization of investment returns.
Accurate and detailed weather data also facilitate the increase in crop yields. It specifically enables farmers to timely adjust to climate situations, mitigate risks, and schedule farm events efficiently.
Weather data protect investments from agricultural risks. For example, it is possible to know about occurrences of hail, pests, and insects, etc. Knowledge of such dangers allows the implementation of steps to protect the farm/crops, such as covering fruits or flowers with nets, spraying, etc.
Fruits damaged by hail becomes unsellable in local and international markets, leading to lost income and waste.
In conclusion, weather data are crucial in guiding several farm management decisions, making ground weather stations invaluable in any farmer’s arsenal. That is because accurate weather information contributes to optimal crop growth, development, and yield, and significantly helps boosts farmer’s profits while reducing costs.
Organic Yemen:
your company for weather data-driven agriculture investment
Organic Yemen believes in the power of reliable weather data. We appreciate the value of accurate and detailed weather data for improving agricultural investment outcomes for Yemen export crops. Consequently, the company has invested in crop monitoring, equipment, and expertise in weather analytics.
OY has a trained and passionate staff with several years of experience in collecting, analyzing, and applying weather data for agricultural use.
OY has formed partnerships with Yemen’s Agriculture Research and Extension Authority (AREA) bureaus all over Yemen to install weather stations and use the data generated in a variety of projects.
OY is a weather data-driven company specializing in agriculture investment for local and foreign investors.
We also have vast expertise in environmental monitoring and we provide project consultation.
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