Artificial intelligence and farmer knowledge boost smallholder maize yields

IMAGE: This is a maize field in Colombia. Farmers in Colombia's maize-growing region of Córdoba had seen it all: too much rain one year, a searing drought the next. Yields were down and their livelihoods hung in the balance. The situation called for a new approach. They needed information services that would help them decide what varieties to plant, when they should sow and how they should manage their crops.