Case Study: Waterwatch Cooperative reduces crop disease and boosts farmer yields with SAP Cloud Platform

Co-Innovating with SAP to Develop a Crop Disease Alert App on SAP Cloud Platform

Waterwatch Cooperative, a high-tech organization focused on global food security, faced the challenge of gathering and analyzing vast amounts of agricultural data to predict water shortages and crop disease for smallholder farmers. They needed a robust solution to process this data and deliver simple, actionable alerts to help farmers improve yields.

Working with SAP and utilizing SAP Cloud Platform, Waterwatch built the Crop Disease Alert app. The app provides farmers with real-time, field-specific alerts on their smartphones, enabling quick action to prevent disease. This solution led to a 25-40% reduction in crop disease incidents and a 15% decrease in pesticide use for farmers using the app, significantly increasing their yields and incomes.

Waterwatch Cooperative

Ronald Lanjouw

Technology Officer