Support for agriculture during COVID-19

This compendium, prepared by the Division for Public Institutions and Digital Government (DPIDG) of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), aims to capture emerging trends in digital responses of UN Member States against the COVID-19 pandemic along with other digital government initiatives and provide a preliminary analysis of their main features. These cases are shared for exchange of information so that Member States can learn from each other and possibly create new partnerships.

Quarantine measures make movement difficult, including for farmers who need to travel to the fields. The accessibility of space monitoring technology to everyone is a priority of the EGISTIC product. Pictures will never replace the agronomist, but they can help to avoid crop losses, as observing the dynamics of changes once every 3-5 days, you can notice what the eye misses when you are directly in the field. Seeing the whole picture, analyzing the dynamics of the development of different parts of the field and identifying weaknesses, there is always the opportunity to make decisions for correcting agricultural activities.

Country

Kazakhstan

Institution

Ministry of Agriculture,