AI To The Rescue: Saving Our Farmers Too!

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Hello Productive Minds!

Keeping a houseplant alive is tough enough, but imagine managing acres of crops. For years, farmers relied on the Old Farmer’s Almanac, but it’s only about 50% accurate. Modern forecasting helps, but climate change is making weather patterns unpredictable. That’s where AI tools like ClimateAi come in, offering precise insights on when to plant or harvest.

Let’s dive deeper into this in today’s newsletter!

Ida Khanna,
Founder ProductiveAI Club

Today’s Menu

• Using AI to thwart crop shortages

• Tutorial: How to add color to old images

• 5 new AI tools to boost your productivity

• AI-Generated Images: Loft life

Farmers look to AI for help predicting the weather

Source: ClimateAi

Most of us have struggled with keeping a houseplant alive or maintaining a small garden. Now, imagine managing acres of crops, where your entire livelihood depends on their success. For centuries, farmers relied on the Old Farmer’s Almanac to predict crop yields, but studies have shown its "secret formula" is only about 50% accurate.

In response, farmers turned to modern forecasting techniques. However, with climate change making weather patterns increasingly unpredictable, even the most advanced models are finding it hard to keep up.

This is where AI steps in to offer a clearer picture of crop performance each season. ClimateAi, for example, analyzes air temperature, rainfall, and other metrics to provide highly specific insights, such as the optimal time for a particular crop to start flowering. It can predict the best times to plant or harvest crops, offering guidance from one hour to six months into the future.

Why is this important? During crop shortages, groceries become more expensive, and certain products may become scarce. On a global scale, agricultural disruptions, like prolonged droughts, can lead to severe food shortages.

Farmers are now using different seed varieties to make crops more resilient to extreme weather. But climate scientists warn that our environment is changing faster than we can adapt. ClimateAi and similar startups are developing tools to shorten the testing phase of new seeds by years, helping to keep pace with these changes.

The next challenge is to make these AI tools accessible to farmers worldwide, especially those in less wealthy countries. As it stands, many of these innovations are only available in more affluent regions, leaving a significant gap in agricultural technology accessibility.

And hey, if AI can help save crops, maybe it can finally help us keep that one stubborn money plant alive too!

How to add colour to old images

• Go to Canva and log in.

• Click on apps and then select AI-powered.

• Search for ‘colorize’ and select it.

• Choose use in new design option from the pop-up window.

• Select the size of your image accordingly.

• Upload your greyscale or black and white image.

• Click on colorize image and wait for a few seconds.

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