Building agricultural networks of farmers and scientists via mobile phones: case study of banana disease surveillance in Uganda
| Autor: | F. Beed, Idd Ramathani, Jerome Kubiriba, Hein Bouwmeester, S. Mpiira, Saurin Nanavati, Gloria Valentine Nakato |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0106 biological sciences
Disease surveillance Geographic information system Banana Xanthomonas wilt business.industry 05 social sciences Environmental resource management Plant Science Biology medicine.disease 01 natural sciences Centralized database Participatory GIS Agriculture Mobile phone Blueprint 0502 economics and business medicine 050207 economics business Agronomy and Crop Science 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology. 38:307-316 |
| ISSN: | 1715-2992 0706-0661 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/07060661.2016.1230149 |
| Popis: | An important challenge threatening agriculture in Africa is the difficulty in collecting timely data on disease spread and effectiveness of on-farm control methods. This study served as a case study for assessing the viability of a participatory GIS (Geographic Information System) to enable a plant diagnostics network with fieldworkers. The use of mobile phone applications and a centralized database were integrated to provide a blueprint for how a range of agriculture-focused field organizations can collect data, explain events, predict outcomes and adapt and refine strategies with more accurate, cost-efficient and timely information. Over the course of 2 months, 38 Community Knowledge Workers (CKWs) using mobile phones, MTN Mobile Internet and GPS devices collected 3018 surveys documenting the presence/absence of three banana diseases: Banana Xanthomonas Wilt (BXW), Fusarium Wilt (FW) and Banana Bunchy Top disease (BBTD) in Bushenyi and Mbale districts in Uganda. Costs were saved by only mobilizi... |
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