Israeli company Netafim Irrigation has introduced ‘NetBeat’, a technology solution that will help farmers grow more food with less resources by combining real-time data from the field with Dynamic Crop Models to personalise irrigation programmes.

Randhir Chouhan, Managing Director, Netafim India, said the solution will help both big and small farmers in organising irrigation digitally by combining irrigation and fertigation control, monitoring and management together with smart DSS crop models, interface to weather forecast and remote cloud access to the field from anywhere, anytime.

Claiming NetBeat as the “first irrigation system with a brain”, Izhar Gilad, Head (Commercial and Business Development), Netafim, said it will provide real-time recommendations to farmers based on data pertaining to plant, soil and weather conditions obtained from the field and external sources.

“The data is analysed in the cloud, according to proprietary Dynamic Crop Models and research in the field of agronomy and hydraulics. Farmers can monitor, analyse, get decision support and automate their irrigation operation by smart phone from anywhere,” said Gilad, adding “the solution is expected to bring about a paradigm shift in drip irrigation technology.”

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