The GEOFARMER platform has been selected by Cotton SA to assist in capturing an inventory of smallholder farmers cultivating cotton.
Cotton SA represents cotton growers in South Africa and continuously strives to support cotton farmers to improve farm management and cultivation practices. As a Programme Partner of Better Cotton, the worlds’ leading sustainability initiative for cotton, Cotton SA is required to map cotton fields planted by smallholder farmers.
The GeoFarmer Platform mapping module allows users to capture agricultural fields and associated information that includes the crop type, cultivar, and planting date, against the backdrop of the most recent cloud-free satellite imagery.
The platform also includes a dashboard that provides statistics on the number of fields and hectares captured for any user-defined region.
