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CABI’s Plantwise team along with App development specialists White October have designed an app which provides in country extension workers with a portable electronic library of pest management factsheets. These factsheets are designed to help extension workers give farmers the most appropriate, effective and safe recommendations they can.

The app, that aims to improve world food security, has already received some good local press and radio coverage .

Plantwise Factsheets App Screenshots

Plantwise Factsheets App Screenshots

 

The Plantwise ‘Factsheets library’ is an Android app that crucially, is designed to be effective on low cost tablets making knowledge on pests accessible anywhere in the world.

Read more about the Plantwise mobile pilot.

 

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