Agriculture Ministry and SupremeSAT introduce space technology

The agreement with SupremeSAT to introduce 'ExactFarming' will be a major step forward in uplifting the living standards of the agriculture and agrarian community.

'ExactFarming' introduces space technology to agriculture for the first time in Sri Lanka. It is important to introduce every possible facility using this platform to the local farmers and to the sector so that we upgrade the lives of the Sri Lankan agrarian community.

This marks as a step towards achieving a glorious era for the local agriculture and farmers and revolutionise the Sri Lankan Agriculture sector, said Agriculture Minister Dumindha Dissanayake.

'ExactFarming' is a platform developed by SupremeSAT and Silicon Valley's ExactFarming Inc. The platform will offer high quality, most frequent, processes satellite imagery to the agrarian community of Sri Lanka through the Ministry of Agriculture.

This innovative step taken by the Ministry will introduce 'Precision Farming Techniques" in Sri Lanka. Using 'ExactFarming' the Ministry will be able to have precise information of each and every agrarian land in Sri Lanka and will also be directly linked with every farmer in Sri Lanka. This will take the Sri Lankan agriculture to greater heights since globally accepted advanced benefits such as mapping, crop insurance, weather forecasting, harvest monitoring, seed, fertiliser, pesticide usage monitoring, distribution, harvest related warehousing, export, import planning and farmer pension portal can be made available to Sri Lanka.

"ExactFarming will strive to make every Sri Lankan farmer be fully equipped with every little information he should have starting from knowing where his land is to the weather, soil, cultivation, harvest related data of that land right at his palm," said Chairman, SupremeSAT, R.M. Manivannan.