Practical guides, product updates and lessons from the field — from the team building AI for smallholder agriculture.
Famo AI is the AI farming platform built by SmartSoil AI. Here is what it is, who it is for, and how its app, dashboards and three farm packages — Open Field, Controlled Field and Organic Farming — fit together.
A practical list of the main wheat diseases, rusts, powdery mildew, septoria, loose smut, Karnal bunt and wheat blast, with symptoms, causes and first steps.
What irrigation scheduling is, the three things a good schedule balances, and example schedules by crop stage that you can adapt to your soil, weather and local advice.
What 10-10-10, 19-19-19, 46-0-0 and 12-32-16 really mean, how to pick an NPK ratio for your crop stage, and why a soil test beats guessing.
Four ways to test soil pH at home, from a vinegar-and-soda check to test strips, a pH meter and a soil sensor, with steps, accuracy and what the number means.
A visual guide to the most common tomato leaf diseases, early blight, late blight, septoria, leaf mold, bacterial spot and yellow leaf curl, with causes and what to do first.
What makes a good fertilizer calculator, eight checks to run on any tool, and a free one that turns nutrient targets into kilograms of urea, DAP and MOP, bags and a branded PDF plan.
Learn the simple formula behind every fertilizer calculator, with worked examples for urea, DAP and potash, and how to convert between hectares and acres.
A plain list of the main rice diseases, what each looks like, what makes it worse and what to do first, plus the insect pests most often mistaken for disease.
Looking for an app to identify plant diseases? Learn how photo-based disease detection works, what a good app should show you, and how to take a photo that gets a reliable answer.