A market intelligence resource pool designed to give producers agribusiness support, trade metrics, and strategic value-chain insights to improve agricultural market access.
A curated directory of useful online tools, calculators and external resources for Western Cape farmers.
A market intelligence resource pool designed to give producers agribusiness support, trade metrics, and strategic value-chain insights to improve agricultural market access.
A database portal providing updated reports, financial prices (like SAFEX), land sale trends, commodity data, and machinery sales to help farmers track market fluctuations and trends
A live monitoring dashboard that tracks and visualises real-time storage metrics, trends (rising/falling), and capacities across monitored dams in the province.
An interactive portal giving users access to daily, hourly, and monthly climate information harvested from a broad network of weather stations placed across the Western Cape.
A division tool focused on the introduction and practical onboarding of advanced modern tech (such as agricultural drone usage and precision farming frameworks) into everyday farming structures
A remote sensing tool utilising satellite data to give farmers a detailed view of crop vigor, biomass estimation, and soil coverage. It lets users track visual vegetative health indexes (like NDVI) over time for specific field tracts.
This tool calculates the water balance and crop growth of sugarcane crops. The system consists of a sugarcane simulation model, an online weather database and a communication network which automatically provides farmers with near real-time field-specific irrigation advice and yield estimates using cell phone text messages (SMS).
A smart, web-based remote sensing portal providing near-real-time data on fruit and wine grape cultivation. It tracks weekly nitrogen status, vegetation growth, and evapotranspiration deficits to optimize irrigation scheduling and slash input costs
An enterprise budget is a physical and financial plan for growing and selling a particular crop or livestock commodity. This tool that maps out physical and financial plans for specific crops and livestock categories. It provides baseline input/output estimations to help farmers assess gross profit margins before committing to a certain commodity
A tool designed to specifically to monitor & calculate greenhouse gas emissions on farms, this tool helps agribusinesses identify emission “hotspots,” analyse fuel/electricity use, and shift towards eco-friendly practices.
An online geographical information system (GIS) application that allows farmers and researchers to access comprehensive spatial data layers, check boundaries, look at topography, and analyse natural resources for farm planning and environmental management.
A tool tracking demographic and socio-economic data compiled from regional farm worker surveys. It provides insights into the housing, health, schooling, and general well-being of agri-workers to guide rural development initiatives
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Current grant programmes and financial opportunities for WC farmers.
