ForeHarvest

District level weather and agronomy advisory that ends with one clear action a farmer can take today.

What it does

ForeHarvest takes forecast data, satellite records, climate signals and agronomic models, and converts them into decisions a farmer can act on: whether to plant this week, how much water to store, whether it is safe to spray today, which variety suits their soil, and when the season is likely to break.

Who uses it

Smallholder farmers managing one to five acre plots, extension officers and cooperative leaders, and institutional users including aggregators, agricultural insurers and government planners.

Capabilities

District-Level Rainfall Forecasting

District level rainfall forecasting with bias correction tuned to each district and month.

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Technical approach and regulatory alignment.

The technical approach

Four independent weather sources are blended using skill weights specific to each agro ecological zone and month, then corrected against three decades of historical climate records and verified against satellite rainfall observations. Climate state signals covering El NiÃ±o and La NiÃ±a conditions and sub seasonal oscillation are used to adjust season length predictions weeks ahead of conventional forecasts.

The result is that two farmers in different districts, with different soils, crops and irrigation methods, receive materially different guidance, because the system models the difference rather than averaging over it.

Institutional and regulatory alignment

Forecast methodology aligned with the national meteorological agency and the regional meteorological centre. Variety catalogues aligned with national agricultural research institutes. Pesticide guidance integrated with the national approved registry. Compliant with Ghana's Data Protection Act, Act 843.