Innovative Youth! Jamaican Teenagers Create App to Help Farmers
Three innovative teenagers from Edwin Allen High School have created a technology-based mobile application that will help farmers to manage their farms.
The application will also assist the farmers in maximizing production and output depending on the the size of the farm and the resources available.
Their useful application earned them first them first place at the recently concluded National 4-H Achievement Day 2015, which was held at the Denbigh Showground, Clarendon.
The three upper-sixth-form male students were brainstorming when they came up with the idea to create the app. They were also guided by their 4-H club teacher Norma Sinclair, and received assistance from a former club member.
The creative trio is comprised of Herad Howell, Ricardo Gaynor and Odaine WIlliams.
The cell phone-compatible application, titled ‘JAagro: The Farmers Handbook. Helping our farmers, boosting our economy’, is written in four computer-readable languages, namely: Android, IOS, BlackBerry, and Windows OS, which means that the app is compatible with all devices operated by any of the aforementioned operating systems platforms to allow for greater access by persons in all categories of cellular technology.
The team is currently working towards making the application compatible with Apple-powered devices.
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Awesome!