Funded by

2020.08.16

e-kakashi
AI brain Agriculture

What we need to implement in

last year of the project?

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Background

- The digitalization of agriculture and food systems can

have positive impacts in economic, social,
environmental and institutional terms, especially in the
post-pandemic recovery process.

Source:
FAO and ECLAC. 2020.
https://doi.org/10.4060/ca9508en
 History
Implemented Project (SATREPS)
Development and Adoption of Latin American Low-input Rice Production System Through
Genetic Improvement and Advanced Field-management Technologies
Establishing Low-input Rice Production Systems for Colombian Rice
Farmers

Issues faced by rice farmers

 There is no technical expertises (no one can use it even if introducing new
technology)
 Low productivity (poor water and fertilizer efficiency)
 Value chain has not been constructed
Solutions
Agricultural IoT solution 「 e-kakashi 」（ PS solutions Co., Ltd. 、 Hitachi Ltd. ）
Agricultural IoT solution "e-kakashi", which can be used for agricultural decision making and risk
hedging by collecting environmental information and growing information from the field, analyzing
and visualizing in the cloud, was first introduced overseas and demonstration experiment started
from June 2017.
In addition to irrigation and fertilization, monitoring has been carried out to reduce work
management and precision cultivation management.
 History
Encounter with e-kakashi (May, 2016)
Visit to "Yosano-cho" agriculture × IoT project and veteran farmers
introducing e-kakashi

Colombian delegation team

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Environmental Management and Climate Change Group Coordinator
Mr. Nelson Enrique Lozano Castro
“Yosano-cho” government building
Latin American Fund on Irrigated Rice (FLAR)
Executive Director
Dr. Eduardo Graterol Matute

Colombia National Rice Federation (FEDEARROZ)

Technology Department Deputy Director
Ms. Myriam Patricia Guzman Garcia

Ibague Branch Office Cultivation Expert

Dr. Luis Armando Castilla Lozano
Farmers field
History

Introduction to Colombia (June, 2017)

• After two field surveys, introduction of customized
e-kakashi gateway (oversea version)

• Introduction of international SIM card

• Introduction of English application

Japanese version English version

 History
Meteorological data and cultivation data from 2013 Create ek recipe

Total 14,000 data points

Some ek recipes with Colombian

Perdition of flowering period in two varieties both lowland and upland
Colombian varieties under lowland conditions were available for crop
conditions were successful with real- navigation
time

Education
Knowledge &
Meteorological data + impact Value
collection
 Our vision
“e-kakashi”: THE AGRICULTURE AI BRAIN (CO-T1488/CO-Q0017)
from October, 2018 – October 2021 Target of project:
JP technologies • 670 Local small farmers from 1-100 ha
Expected Output 30% less than 30 years old farmers
• High value rice (less 70% African Colombian
broken rice) 12% Indigenous
• Higher productivity 20% Women
• Organic rice
• Traceability Sharing
• Linking farmer to (Equipment)
milling company Supply
through ICT (Seed,
fertilizer etc.)

Milling company E-money

Farmers
Community
Mobility
Market
(Shop)
Funded by
+ impact Value Consumers
Certification, low chemical, organic etc
Location where we installed e-kakashi

- In total 52 sensor node devices

in all in Colombia
(25 devices for only IDB Lab. project)

- 8 departments (Valle del

Cauca, Cauca, Tolima, Huila,
Casanare, Meta, Córdoba and
Sucre)

- 5 experimental stations and

10 farms are monototing by
platform - IoT e-kakashi
Issue to solve

17/100

Some data is missing because of low capacity, poor connectivity and

lack of advice or action services.
Still we cannot utilize collected data for data-driven agriculture…
Solution (1) connectivity
Claro 3G coverage map
Public policies

Cellphone operator

ICT technology

e-kakashi connectivity of
all projects in Colombia

good bad No connectivity

Solution (2) opportunity of advice
e-kakashi note
Smartphone Application for Android

Increase an opportunity of advice and/or action service by

Smartphone Apps…
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agua agua agua agua
(cm) (cm) (cm) (cm)

benefits to farmers

Humedad
2
1

Humedad Humedad Humedad

del suelo del suelo del suelo del suelo
(%) (%) (%) (%)
Data visualization is not enough for farmers

Technology transfer of new technology packages that bring

Method 　– Data collection for Optimum harvesting －
Target ： 670 small farmers who are working with Blanquita Mill
Hopefully, 25-30 % of phenological and working activity data
will be collected by developed App.
Sensor data: All 25 e-kakashi SN that were installed in IDB project

Collecting data ：
【 Environment 】 “ Air temperature, Related Humidity, Solar radiation,
Soil temperature, Soil EC, Volumetric Water Content” every 10 minutes
by e-Kakashi platform
【 Phenology 】 Date of Sowing, Transplanting, Panicle initiation,
Heading, Flowering, Harvesting
【 Activities 】 Application date of fertilizer with amount and chemical
with amount, picture of filed and panicle at harvesting period
【 Post-harvesting 】 Grain yield, grain humidity and rice quality

• Registered farmers and 7 technical assistants will be supported to

collect data (see master sheet data format).
• To prevent omission of data collection, Once registered seeding data
in the smartphone app, the app will send a push notification to both
farmer and technical assistants at the appropriate time to collect
each event period
Method 　– Data analysis － 17/100
All the collected information is put into a master sheet
format and it will be analyzed by multiple regression
analysis using machine learning and feature engineering
using AI software in e-kakashi platform.
Result 　– Pre-analysis － 17/100
Method 　– Data collection for Optimum fertilization －
Target ： 670 small farmers who are working with Blanquita Mill
Hopefully, 25-30 % of phenological and working activity data
will be collected by developed App.
Sensor data: All 25 e-kakashi SN that were installed in IDB project

Collecting data ：
【 Environment 】 “ Air temperature, Related Humidity, Solar radiation,
Soil temperature, Soil EC, Volumetric Water Content” every 10 minutes
by e-Kakashi platform
【 Phenology 】 Date of Sowing, Transplanting, Panicle initiation,
Heading, Flowering, Harvesting
【 Activities 】 Application date of fertilizer with amount and chemical
with amount, picture of filed and panicle at harvesting period
【 Post-harvesting 】 Grain yield, grain humidity and rice quality

• Registered farmers and 7 technical assistants will be supported to

collect data (see master sheet data format).
• To prevent omission of data collection, Once registered seeding data
in the smartphone app, the app will send a push notification to both
farmer and technical assistants at the appropriate time to collect
each
Feature Engineering using water level

FA60: 6644 kg
ORYZICA: 6724 kg
More than
FA60: 9434 kg
100
ORYZICA: 7263 kg
data is required!
FA60: 3885 kg
ORYZICA: 3665 kg

FA60: 3442 kg
Rice quality data
Is
Maja6: 7427 kg
Missing!

FA60: 9434 kg
ORYZICA: 7263 kg
Method 　– Data collection for disease alert －
Target ： 670 small farmers who are working with Blanquita Mill
Hopefully, 25-30 % of phenological and working activity data
will be collected by developed App.
Sensor data: All 25 e-kakashi SN that were installed in IDB project

Collecting data ：
【 Environment 】 “ Air temperature, Related Humidity, Solar radiation,
Soil temperature, Soil EC, Volumetric Water Content” every 10 minutes
by e-Kakashi platform
【 Phenology 】 Date of Sowing, Transplanting, Panicle initiation,
Heading, Flowering, Harvesting
【 Activities 】 Application date of fertilizer with amount and chemical
with amount, picture of filed and panicle at harvesting period
Pyricularia evaluation

• Registered farmers and 7 technical assistants will be supported to

collect data (see master sheet data format).
• To prevent omission of data collection, Once registered seeding data
in the smartphone app, the app will send a push notification to both
farmer and technical assistants when alert issued
 Method 　– Data collection for disease alert －
Partners Evaluation 14 days after alert

Bioversity-CIAT Alliance

Alert for
RHBV disease
prediction
Knowledge & previous result
[RHBV disease prediction] Farmer’s
Association
 
Symptoms Disease leaf
Scale
Real-time monitoring area (%)

& analysis Rice farmers 0 No lesions observed. 0

Small brown specks of pinpoint size or larger brown specks without

1 <0.3

Feedback
sporulating center.

Small, roundish to slightly elongated necrotic sporulating spots,

Real-time analysis 3 about 1-2 mm in diameter with a distinct brown margin or yellow 1-2

by AI Farmer’s action
halo.

Narrow or slightly elliptical lesions, 1-2 mm in breadth, more than 3

Disease conditions 5
mm long with a brown margin.
8-14

7 Broad spindle-shaped lesion with yellow, brown, or purple margin. 25-39

Rapidly coalescing small, whitish, grayish, or bluish lesions without

9 >65
distinct margins.

Colombia 5 rice cultivation regions Cooperation

Validation will be conducted by Confusion Matrix using Random Forest

Source:
Standard Evaluation System (SES) for Rice 5th edition
 Strategic Smart Food Value Chain

Increase in yields by technical & decision support and referring

know-how
Cultivation Operational efficiency & cost reduction by automatic operation and
Site appropriate number and timing of seasonal labor
Weather Information Being aware of needs and demands, controlling shipment time,
Satellite / Aerial Imageries (possession of price decision right)

Distribution Supply and demand matching by utilizing digitalized

information on each cultivation site (expected & stored yield)
Current Project
Food Security / Safety
Consumer
Cost for value price, fair price

Alert/Caution/Instruction
Beneficial Points
Data Accumulation
(Variety ・ Instruction ・
Harvesting timing ・ Yield, Analysis ・
etc) Cultivation Purchasing safe food
Market needs /
Practice(automatic API Cooperation Information (Traceability)
direction)
Notifying predictions Recruitment, etc
eg: harvesting timing (Based on the prediction of harvesting
Environmental Automatic Operation timing ）
Monitoring / Cultivation (Window ・ watering, Fan, etc)
Record

Labor force ・
Farm equipment rental

Cultivation Practice Support / Digitalization of Crop Labor force ・ Farm equipment

Information & Cultivation Site Matching
Agricultural Innovation
Make People Happy

inquiry ： sc@e-kakashi.com
Web site : http://www.e-kakashi.com/