Despite being the economic engine of Brazil, agriculture still needs a lot of help to be more efficient. Even generating millions of jobs, there is room for tools to extract maximum performance from the sector.
In this sense, technology is a good way to improve performance, enabling systems to help rural producers and the entire chain linked to them. And when this aid is aimed at solving the main factor harming agriculture, the climate, it is essential to pay close attention.
This is the case with the tailor-made software developed by LogAp, a solution that is helping more than 213,000 rural workers in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Want to know more details about EMPARN’s weather forecast system?
So, keep reading until the end to know all the details. Good reading!
What are the challenges of the agricultural system without a weather forecast?
When we talk about challenges for the Brazilian farmer, we have a huge list of items that create barriers to the success of a plantation. Labor, logistics, pests, diseases and grain storage are recurring issues for companies that belong to the sector.
But there is an extremely critical item in this process: the climate. Climate volatility is the factor that most puts rural production at risk in the four corners of the country. Excess and lack of rain, frost, floods, hail and other variations are recurring issues for rural producers.
And in the case of farmers in Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), this challenge was even more complex due to the lack of information that contributed to agriculture. With data being collected and processed manually, it was complex to act proactively in a scenario of climate variation.
Thus, EMPARN, the Agricultural Research Company of Rio Grande do Norte, decided to help the more than 213,000 people who live and depend on the land — and the climate — to survive. And it was with the use of LogAp’s technology that, finally, the rural producer’s life became more predictable and efficient.
And this was evident in the speech of Governor Fátima Bezerra, who was born in the hinterland and knows the importance that rains have for the agro economy. “Monitoring is very important because it makes it possible to adopt actions not only for agriculture, but for several other areas, such as civil defense. This is a clear demonstration of how to use technology to support public policies in order to optimize resources”, she said.
How did LogAp act in the complete modernization of the system?
In general terms, in cooperation with the partner Logique, the system created by LogAp allowed the measurements of the climatic part and time to be fully automated. In addition, the new software allowed the automatic processing of data — and this brought immense agility to the process.
In practice, the work carried out by LogAp aims to maintain the monitoring, storage and analysis of data from the State’s network, all efficiently. With 273 conventional and automatic rainfall stations and data collection platforms installed in Rio Grande do Norte, all information needs to be correct and agile to help rural producers.
Source: EMPARN.
For this, the software runs numerical models, such as the WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting Model), to forecast the weather for the agricultural sector in Rio Grande do Norte. In this way, it can predict precipitation, humidity, temperature, wind speed and other important indicators for producers.
In addition to the weather forecast, the software runs the REGCM4 weather forecast mathematical model to be able to predict weather conditions for the next 3 months. This forecast helps in planting planning, as it provides farmers with a forecast for the quarter between rainy, normal or dry.
In the agrometeorological part, also through a numerical model developed in conjunction with EMPARN, the software performs the simulation and analysis of the planting conditions of various crops. Thus, it is possible to understand how a bean plantation, for example, will be affected from the weather and climate forecasts made.
This simplicity, with a lot of power, in providing useful information to rural producers in the state is what makes agriculture possible, focusing on the quality of the harvest and also on the predictability of the business. All this with a tailor-made software developed by LogAp and the partner Logique.
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Developed modules and benefits
The free and open access platform has a wide range of resources developed by LogAp, such as:
• Daily monitoring bulletins;
• Reports and graphs of rainfall, evapotranspiration, etc;
• Weather forecast with meteogram, numerical forecast, warnings, stamps etc;
• Edaphoclimatic and climate risk zoning;
• Weather forecast, with forecast data;
All this in real time, in an agile, simple and extremely useful way for the rural producer, as can be seen freely on the project’s website. This information indicates, for example, the best date for planting, so that the crops planted do not run the risk of being affected by climate change.
Source: EMPARN.
And this, in general, allows the continuity of agronomy in Rio Grande do Norte, as well as the future of the people and families who dedicate their lives to the segment. So, through technology, we show how it is possible to help the workers who make Brazil a country with strong and innovative agronomy.
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