“Sativus” is a simple to use, but rigorously developed digital knowledge system for the diagnosis and management of insect, disease and nutritional problems to agricultural crops that is available on the smartphones. It is suitable for providing crop health extension services to farmers either directly or through organizations involved in agro-chemical and crop nutrition businesses, large farms, FPCs, etc.

Field agents are trained to independently inspect the damaged crops, describe the symptoms and associate the symptoms with the causal groups. Later, with the help of the Sativus App, a field agent diagnose the exact problem. Sativus enables the user organization to include their crop health management plans and products as recommendations, which are made available to the field agents after diagnosing a problem.

Features:

• Enables field agents to independently diagnose the crop health problems by following a simple sequence of steps.
• Once diagnosed rightly, the App allows them to quickly assess the severity of the problem by following a few intuitive steps, followed by providing the management plans.
• There is an option to connect with the experts in case of doubts
• The management options available on Sativus consider safety and effectiveness against the problem.
• Both chemical and non-chemical methods like bio-control, cultural and trap methods are included. The recommendations are provided based on crop stage and severity of damage.
• User organizations can independently modify the recommendations to suit their needs. They can include their products against specific insect pests, microbial diseases and nutriient deficiencies.
• Currently, Sativus supports 40+ crops that includes major cereals, pulses, vegetables, fruits, sugar and fiber, flowers and plantation crops.