Crop Observation, Management and Production Analysis Services System (COMPASS) The project consortium is working with CIMMYT and
COLPOS in Mexico and with INTA in Argentina to
help smallholder farmers growing wheat, sugar cane
and maize to improve crop management. Mexican &
Argentinian farmers need to improve crop productivity
and stabilise their incomes to facilitate rural community
economic development. The tool developed by this
project will help farmers to identify factors that cause
the yield gap between crop potential and actual field
performance.
The project provides customer-specific decision
support tools to help growers, including smallholders,
improve their technical, environmental and financial
performance. The project will also provide commercial
information support, following the trials that are
underway, to advisory services, agribusiness, farmer
cooperatives, crop insurers and governments to create
a long-term income stream to support Rezatec’s
provision of these services. Key aims of the project are to:
• Help wheat and sugar cane farmers and smallholders  improve their crop management so that their
incomes and income stability is improved to support rural development
• Help the wider wheat and sugar cane industry, crop insurers and government agencies access improved
information so that they can help develop the industry and facilitate investment
• Develop and deploy a commercial decision support tool for wheat and sugar cane farmers and the wider industry using space data to help deliver more detailed, more timely and more cost effective
information to support management decision making