6G’s Digital tools instrumental inaccelerating service delivery to smallholder farmers along the Senegal River.

6^th Grain has been selected to support Partners of the Americas in its USDA Food for Progress grant to be implemented in Mauritania, which focuses on developing a stable source of fruits and vegetables through increasing productivity in mangoes, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, and onions. Working with its partners in the region, 6^th Grain will support services for farmers through digital tools, hydrological models and suitability assessments for each crop.

Working with Partners of the Americas, 6^thGrain will support development of the horticulture sector along the Senegal River in Mauritania by:

• Using remote sensing data and models to map horticulture production areas in the three regions and overlap the areas with crop suitability models.
• Identifying multiple contiguous fields in the three regions to help guide targeting of horticultural crop investments.
• Assessing historical and current productivity by farm/field and generate a relative productivity index for all fields in the selected areas.
• Developing hydrological models for the three regions to understand water use efficiency.
• Assessing water flow/use by field and generate runoff maps to determine irrigation water use and risk for salination and erosion through time.

The project’s focus is to create a more sustainable agricultural sector in Mauritania for thelong-term.  

For more information, please contact mbrown@6grain.com

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