[Geo4All] Africa Agriculture, Cartography /Remote Sensing & Optimal Production

Sat Nov 25 16:38:36 PST 2017

Prof. Schweik, Anand, Patrick, Mueller and Charlie

In Uganda, there are spaces of trying out these projects with very
good returns.   For instance organic beef and agroproduce export is
gaining pace. Companies from Norway, United Kingdom, The Netherlands,
Belgium, Middle East and China are all on the ground.

What I do think,  is how to build a one Fab Lab that will do multiple
tasks i.e. product development and data gathering (for bot urban and
Rural planning) to reduce costs for; Students, Researchers and then
Business (farmers ) community.

It is essential to involve the business community to bring in
requisite funding however small for project sustenance.

Can the Fab Lab also distribute this data to rural farmers?

Now, the crux of the matter is to have rural portable devices
developed that can resist high temp, wet conditions (it rains a lot in
Uganda) that can receive but also SEND DATA TO THE FAB LAB.

There is a possibility of getting Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL) and
NITA Uganda that have a wider communication infrastructure network to
join the project.

Is it possible to have a virtual market for rural farmers and the
buyers in urban centres? If yes the portal can bring in a few Uganda
shilling to cover running costs?

For research purposes, this is indeed a fertile ground to get to
discover quite a number of key issues.

For example; spatial data on good grass, plant (seasons) and animal
diseases (early detection), water sources, animal grazing behavior in
different season, soil data,  growth pattern in different vegetation
environments etc etc.,

Once the data is put into a temperate and categorised – and the Uganda
farmer given some basic farming education then you can have research
institutions link up to the Fab Lab for remote research since it links
up the market, farmers in rural areas and researchers in the field and
outside the field.

Best

Daniel Bwanika

On 11/26/17, Dan Bwanika <bulemezi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dr. Mueller
>
> Have a look at these short I did in 2013
>
> Best
>
> Daniel Bwanika
>
> On 11/25/17, Mueller, Thomas <Mueller at calu.edu> wrote:
>> Daniel
>>
>>
>> This is so cool.  I am going to discuss your project in my World Regional
>> Geography class.  Do you have any images, videos, etc.?
>>
>>
>> Thanks again
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
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>> Martial NGOUNOU <cmngounou at gmail.com>
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>> Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Africa Agriculture, Cartography /Remote Sensing &
>> Optimal Production
>>
>> Hi Daniel
>>
>> I like what you say here.
>> Problems you observe in Uganda are similar to what we have in Central
>> Africa.
>> We need to leverage Geo tools to cartography everything in our countries,
>> because it is very difficult to locate anything here.
>>
>> Thank you !
>>
>>
>> Best Regards
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>> On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 8:39 AM, Dan Bwanika
>> <bulemezi at gmail.com<mailto:bulemezi at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Dear Forum
>>
>> Recently, I was in the northern central part of Uganda where cattle
>> keepers have farms in the region of 300 -600 acres. It took me three
>> hours to locate where the cows had grazed that day.
>>
>> Then I thought to myself, maybe if each cattle had a GPS/GSM tag, I
>> would locate the cows in a few minutes instead of walking in an
>> endless bush. Even then do these people need such huge land for cattle
>> keeping if they had good aerial data on vegetation, water etc.,?
>>
>> Uganda key socioeconomic activity is still agriculture and it will
>> remain the same for some time to come. Uganda if you look closely at
>> the map is endowed with huge water resources.
>>
>> For the above reason, this country will need huge cartographical data
>> on soil profiles, vegetation, crops, water sources, animal husbandry
>> etc.
>>
>> That is how technology is converging on Africa in a massive way.
>>
>> Can we work together on this – get in touch.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Daniel Bwanika
>>
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>> Daniel Bwanika
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Daniel Bwanika
Box 12413 Kampala
Uganda

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