Farmers to Benefit from New Pest Early Warning System

Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa are to benefit from a new project that aims to develop early warning system to help cut crop losses resulting from pests. The project will forecast pest outbreaks using cutting-edge space infrastructure, Earth observation data and state-of- the-art modelling techniques. The project called Pest Risk Information Service (PRISE) is led by the UK-based Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) with £6.38 million (almost US$ 8 million) funding over five years from the UK Space Agency, according to a statement from CABI last month (27 January).

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