CHALLENGE SCOPE
KSA has a growth policy to improve the dates production and export markets
Dates are economically, socially, culturally, and ecologically important in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and around the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. Dates also play important roles in the history, heritage, and socioeconomic life of the population. We are looking for innovative solutions that utilize Earth observation data to provide a holistic solution facing pest prevention centers like WEQAA in KSA. Such centers face major issues in logistics, pest detection, response time, database management for inspection and tree counting and other problems which have massive associated costs to them.
Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture
The ministry oversees comprehensive policies for water and food security in Saudi Arabia. It supports agricultural development and service improvement, collaborating with the private sector and relevant entities for sustainable environment, water, and agriculture management.
WEQAA Centre
Weqaya focuses on preventing and controlling the plant pests and animal diseases, and protecting the public health from risks of Zoonotic Diseases between human and animals, and any type of diseases victors.