An app to help potato farmers reduce agrochemical use

More than 170 years after it provoked the Great Famine of Ireland, late blight disease remains the biggest threat to potato farming globally, causing USD billions of crop loss each year. In most areas, farmers can only grow potatoes if they regularly apply fungicides, which control the highly destructive pathogen but pose risks to the…

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