Muthithi Kinyanjui, business development manager and partnership lead at ACRE-Africa, says they have been distributing weather index insurance, and they were able to remotely monitor farms using satellite data. They also use data from weather stations installed in about 78 farms across the country. We have been trying to fix this through the picture-based model,” Kinyanjui says. Jean Eyase, Project Communication Support from ACRE-Africa, says the picture-based insurance model helps fix the errors faced in the weather index product. The picture-based index enables the farmer to take accurate pictures of their crop every season and they are given a frequency.

Source: The Star December 09, 2020 01:52 UTC