°AHoRa: Application for family farming of Musaceae

Through the development of the °AHoRa project, the following results were obtained, among others: i) a baseline of the characteristics of producers and technicians, and crop monitoring methods in the project's areas of influence (based on a structured survey), which identified the need of both producers and technical assistants for technological tools to support decision making on crop agronomic practices. ii) A scientific surveillance study on the use of similar Apps, which showed that to date there is no free App for use by family growers of Musaceae that includes the five modules offered by the °AHoRa application. iii) Mathematical models were generated that convert local meteorological and abiotic data into projections of: potential leaf emission rate, optimum harvest date, bunch weight and crop yield as a function of the accumulation of degree days, amount of nutrients required by the plant to meet its nutritional requirements as a function of nutrient extraction per harvested ton of fruit and volume of water required by the plant as a function of the water balance, which takes into account crop evapotranspiration, precipitation and initial soil moisture content. iv) Validation of the mathematical models on banana farms in different producing regions of the partner countries. v) Development of the mobile web version of the "°AHoRa" application. vi) A business plan to ensure the sustainability of the application and to reach a larger number of end users. vii) technical capacity building through virtual and on-site workshops and technology update days. (viii) Linking of the App to 1189 people, including producers and technical assistants in banana and plantain producing regions of Colombia, Peru and the Dominican Republic. (ix) Videos on efficient management of fertilization, irrigation, crop management and others, published on digital platforms such as YouTube and corporate web pages, which have reached 5434 views.