Netagrow For Farmers

Netagrow is a free farming app for Zambia. It tells you what to do on your farm today, shows the rain, soil, and dry-spell risk for your own field, identifies pests from a photo, and gives you prices from markets near you. TODAY ON YOUR FARM • Today's priority: the most important job on your farm right now, from your crop and livestock guides, the weather, and alerts • Week ahead: each day's farm tasks with the forecast, so you can plan around heat and rain • Farm health score: rain, soil moisture, and the season outlook for your area in one number STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES • Dated plans for maize, vegetables, spices, poultry, pigs, cattle, and more, from land preparation to harvest • Each step has a date worked out from your planting or arrival day. Tick it off when it's done. • Key facts and the pests and diseases to watch for at each stage • What to plant: crops suited to your province and their best planting windows YOUR FIELD, FROM SATELLITE • Map your field by tapping its corners on a satellite map, or by walking its edge with your phone's GPS • See your field's real size, and crop health from satellite once it's mapped • Rain, soil moisture and the chance of a dry spell over the next 30 to 120 days, for your field • Local weather forecast for the days ahead PEST SCOUT • Take a photo of a sick leaf to identify the pest or disease, with how sure it is and how serious • Get clear advice on what to do next • Your scans are saved, so you can follow a problem over time ASK NETA • Neta, your farm assistant, knows your fields, crops, livestock and local weather • Ask about planting, watering, spraying, pests or prices and get an answer for your farm, not a general one PRICES AND SHOP • Retail prices for maize, beans, vegetables, meat, fish, eggs and milk from 209 markets across Zambia • See when your crop is ready to sell, and where it sells for most • Order seed, fertiliser and other inputs from local sellers. The seller calls you to arrange delivery WATER • The nearest working boreholes and dams to your farm, and water points reported broken ALERTS • Notifications when a planting window opens, when prices favour selling, when a dry spell is coming, and when a water point near you goes down LIVESTOCK • Keep batches of chickens, pigs, cattle, goats and more, each with its own care guide, day by day • Update your headcount as animals are sold or added