Crop Sprayer App: Dosage calculator for plant protection products

Optimizing Pesticide Application for Sustainable Agriculture

This mobile application calculates the exact amount of pesticide concentrate required based on user inputs such as sprayer type, application area, and crop specifics. It adjusts calculations for different sprayer sizes and operates offline after initial setup, ensuring accessibility in various field conditions.

This technology is pre-validated.

9•7

Scaling readiness: idea maturity 9/9; level of use 7/9

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Crop sprayer App

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Open source / open access

Problem

Reduced Profitability: Up to 40% of crops are lost to pests and diseases, directly affecting yield and revenue for agribusinesses.
Inefficient Resource Use: Conventional pesticide application methods can lead to as much as 75% misapplication, resulting in unnecessary costs and environmental liabilities that diminish return on investment.
Operational Inefficiencies: Inaccurate dosing and inconsistent application practices waste valuable resources, hindering scalability and competitiveness in the marketplace.

Solution

Optimized Chemical Use: The Crop Sprayer App ensures accurate pesticide dosing, reducing chemical waste by up to 25–30%. This optimization directly lowers input costs, improving overall profitability.
Streamlined Operations: With its user-friendly interface and offline functionality, the app minimizes operational delays and calculation errors, allowing agribusinesses to achieve consistent application standards across all operations.
Enhanced ROI: By improving application precision, the technology reduces the risk of overuse and misapplication. This not only saves costs but also protects product efficacy, leading to better market performance and customer satisfaction.
Competitive Advantage: Leveraging this tool supports data-driven decisions in pest management, enabling businesses to maintain sustainability and operational efficiency, which are key differentiators in the competitive agribusiness market.

Key points to design your business plan

The Crop Sprayer App is a free, multilingual digital tool designed to enhance agricultural productivity, promote environmental sustainability, and ensure the safety of pesticide applicators. By facilitating precise pesticide application, it contributes to efficient pest and disease management while mitigating the impacts of climate change.

To integrate this technology in your business, key steps are:

Operational Efficiency: Implement the Crop Sprayer App to optimize pesticide use, reducing waste and ensuring consistent application across extensive farming areas.
Employee Training: Develop comprehensive training programs for farm managers and field staff to proficiently use the app, ensuring accurate data input and interpretation for effective decision-making.
Resource Allocation: Assess the need for Android devices and data plans to facilitate app usage among field teams, ensuring seamless integration into daily operations.
Sustainability Reporting: Incorporate data from the app into sustainability reports to demonstrate commitment to responsible pesticide use and environmental stewardship to stakeholders and consumers.
Collaborative Partnerships: Engage with agricultural research institutions and extension services to stay updated on best practices and integrate the app into broader integrated pest management (IPM) strategies.

By adopting the Crop Sprayer App, large-scale farming enterprises can enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, and promote sustainable agricultural practices, ultimately leading to improved productivity and environmental responsibility.

Adults 18 and over: Positive medium

Adult users will gain ability to quickly run important calculations on product use. This is to avoid errors during manual miscalculation which may increase risks to the individual and the environment, and cause more product to be applied than required.

The poor: Positive medium

Smallholder farmers in low and lower middle income countries are the ultimate beneficiary of this technology. Knowing the right application of crop protection products should reduce the risk of too much being purchased and applied.

Women: Positive medium

The tool has been designed to be available in local languages, and to work offline and on lower specification phones that we found women farmers and advisors have available.

Biodiversity: Not verified

The judicious use of crop protection products as a result of using the Crop Sprayer app may reduce run-off or impacts on non-target organisms, but this has not been tested.

Environmental health: Not verified

The judicious use of crop protection products as a result of using the Crop Sprayer app may reduce the amount of product that gets applied, and reduce the amount that may end up as run-off, but this has not been tested.

Countries with a green colour: Tested & adopted
Countries with a bright green colour: Adopted
Countries with a yellow colour: Tested
Countries with a blue colour: Testing ongoing

Countries where the technology is being tested or has been tested and adopted
Country	Testing ongoing	Tested	Adopted
Burundi	–No ongoing testing	–Not tested	Adopted
Ethiopia	–No ongoing testing	–Not tested	Adopted
Ghana	–No ongoing testing	–Not tested	Adopted
Kenya	–No ongoing testing	–Not tested	Adopted
Malawi	–No ongoing testing	–Not tested	Adopted
Rwanda	–No ongoing testing	–Not tested	Adopted
South Sudan	–No ongoing testing	–Not tested	Adopted
Uganda	–No ongoing testing	–Not tested	Adopted
Zambia	–No ongoing testing	–Not tested	Adopted

This technology can be used in the colored agro-ecological zones. Any zones shown in white are not suitable for this technology.

Agro-ecological zones where this technology can be used
AEZ	Subtropic - warm	Subtropic - cool	Tropic - warm	Tropic - cool
Arid	–	–	–	–
Semiarid	–		–
Subhumid
Humid

Source: HarvestChoice/IFPRI 2009

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals that are applicable to this technology.

Goal 2: zero hunger

Improves crop yields through effective pest management.

Goal 8: decent work and economic growth

Enhances agricultural productivity and economic opportunities.

Goal 12: responsible production and consumption

Encourages efficient use of agricultural inputs, reducing waste.

Download and Setup: Download the app for free on an Android device. Available in multiple languages (English, Spanish, French, Bengali, Swahili, Telugu, Portuguese, Hindi, Nepali, Urdu, Sindhi, Dari/Persian, Pashto, Vietnamese, Thai), the app is ready to use immediately.
Simply enter the field details, sprayer type, and product information, and the app will calculate the precise dosage while providing additional guidance on safer spraying.
Set-Up: Assemble your sprayer and adjust the nozzle to achieve the required spray pattern.
Filling: Add the recommended pesticide or organic solution to the tank.
Application: Walk through the field methodically to ensure even coverage, adjusting the spray volume as needed.
Cleaning: Clean the sprayer thoroughly after use to maintain efficiency and longevity.