CHAMPi is web based application for data processing, storage and presentation that functions for crop suitability and farm management. Farmers in the Philippines is declining because of decrease of interest by current farmers. Due to decrease productivity farmers' incomes decreased and unstable thus they are opting out to other professions or quitting as a farmer. Decrease in numbers of farmers can lead to food insecurity, famine and worst war on food. This application will benefit the Champion Farmers Program of Lambunao.
This organization is a non stock non profit values based mentoring program with technical skills and provision inputs that uses value chain approach. CFP was founded by Board Member Jason R. Gonzales and was launched last January 7, 2017. Currently, CFP has 146 CF members that belonged to 14 clusters in 42 barangays in Lambunao. CHAMPi will help our technicians in efficiently giving sound advices to interested and committed CF members to further engage in farming. CFP technicians will utilize CHAMPi to determine crop suitable in an identified CF farms using the data we embed in the application.
Further, CHAMPi increases the production efficiency that will decrease the risk of losses and increase the possibility of gaining income. We need to access the NASA data related to geo maps, EARTHDATA, soil and terrain compositions, weather forecasting, history of disasters happened and other related data. Our team is diversed so that we need to organize passionate core team members who are willing to sacrifice time and effort in developing the CHAMPi application and make it working and ready for application in real life farming.
Facebook Page of Champion Farmers Program: https://www.facebook.com/lambunaoCFP/
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