Guessing is the most expensive input on your farm.
Fertiliser has a price. Diesel has a price. Guessing has a price too — you just never see the invoice. We put sensors in your soil and a server on your premises. The farm hand opens Today and taps the jobs. The box keeps the numbers.
Installed and supported in Nigeria · No cloud subscription · Works without field internet
The rain stops. Nobody sends you a message.
A dry spell does not announce itself. The sky stays bright, the leaves look fine for another few days, and underneath, the root zone has already crossed the line where the crop stops recovering the difference. By the time the field tells you, you are not preventing a loss any more. You are counting one.
You pay for it at harvest
Water stress during flowering or fruit set does not show on the leaf until the damage is fixed. The pump runs eventually, the plants recover their colour, and the yield still arrives short — with nothing in the records to explain why.
You pay for it every week
Watering on a schedule instead of a reading means diesel burned on fields that were already wet, fertiliser pushed past the root zone, and roots sitting in water they never asked for. That invoice arrives quietly, in instalments, all season.
Neither is visible from the farm road. Both are visible in the soil — continuously, cheaply — if something down there is measuring.
The season you are planning for, in numbers.
Every figure below is somebody else's — a government agency, a national statistics office, a peer-reviewed trial. We cite each one so you can check it yourself. Where the honest answer is "no Nigerian study exists", we say that too.
NiMet's own 2026 prediction warns of severe dry spells of up to 21 days between June and August across parts of 15 states — Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Plateau, Niger, Nasarawa, Kwara, Oyo and others — plus an August Break of 28 to 40 days.
The Federal Ministry of Agriculture's own performance survey records a nationwide dry spell across 33 states in the 2024 wet season, and pest and disease losses of 35–45% on affected farms covering roughly 54,000 hectares.
The national average in May 2026 — up 86.4% in twelve months. A 10 kW submersible pump burns 2.5 litres an hour, so roughly ₦8,200 an hour in fuel alone. Every hour spent watering ground that was already wet is paid for at that rate.
Peer-reviewed Kaduna tomato trials measured a yield-response factor of 1.26–1.30. A 10% water deficit costs roughly 13% of the crop. The penalty runs ahead of the mistake — and neither the deficit nor the loss is visible by eye.
A three-season trial comparing wireless soil-moisture scheduling against the fixed schedules growers normally use saved up to a quarter of the water while yields held. Zimbabwe, winter wheat, under drip — the closest rigorous evidence we have, and not a Nigerian vegetable result.
FAO puts Nigeria's equipped irrigation area at about 293,000 hectares against 2.33 million hectares of potential. Whoever measures their water first is competing against a field that mostly still guesses.
What we install
Four parts, one chain, no subscriptions in the middle. Every piece stays on your premises and belongs to you.
What the system does today
Working capability, running now — not a roadmap.
Continuous field monitoring
Every sensor, every reading, held on your own hardware with a full history you can export at any time in open formats.
Threshold alerts you set
You set the dry line and the wet line per field. DRY means water that plot. OK means leave it. If a probe goes quiet past the time you set, the phone says NO SIGNAL and tells you to walk the plot. You can always see why.
Season records worth auditing
What was planted, what the field did, what was applied and what was delivered — in a form a lender, insurer or buyer can verify.
Traceability-ready from day one
Field-level records are precisely what export buyers and outgrower programmes ask for. You accumulate them as a by-product of normal operation.
Evidence, labelled honestly
This is the morning screen, not a sales illustration. Your field names, the driest one first, and a verdict at the end of every row. DRY means water that ridge. OK means leave it. NO SIGNAL means walk that plot. Do not pump from an old number.
See the phone, the field rules, and what each screen means →
Who this is built for
Operations where a single irrigation decision is worth more than the instrumentation.
Farms and greenhouses
Multi-zone operations from five hectares upward, and greenhouse installs where climate and substrate need watching continuously.
Cooperatives and outgrowers
Shared instrumentation across member plots, with per-plot records that anchor input financing and offtake agreements.
Agencies, NGOs and M&E
Independent field measurement for programme monitoring, with exportable data and a documented chain from sensor to report.
We sell measurement, not prediction
Most agri-tech pages promise intelligence they cannot demonstrate. We publish the rung we stand on and name the two above it.
Continuous monitoring, threshold alerts, verifiable digital records, and a clean data pipeline ready for analysis.
Irrigation decision support and water-stress early warning, calibrated on your fields with your own data.
Learned irrigation scheduling and anomaly detection — only once enough seasons of your data exist to train on honestly.
Do the arithmetic on your own farm.
We will not put a payback period on your season — anyone who does it without knowing your lift, your hours or your crop price is guessing, and charging you for the guess. What we will do is hand you the inputs with their sources attached, and let the numbers be yours.
| Diesel, national average (May 2026) National Bureau of Statistics | ₦3,277.47/l |
| Fuel burn, 10 kW submersible pump Igwe et al., 2025 — Nigeria | 2.5 l/hour |
| Fuel cost per pumping hour our arithmetic from the two rows above | ≈ ₦8,194 |
| Tomato yield-response factor Onwuegbunam et al. — Kaduna | 1.26–1.30 |
| Field kit and installation our published price list | from ₦1.5m |
| Your hectares, your pumping hours, your crop price, your yield only you have these | you supply |
Why we build it this way
A payback figure is only as good as its worst assumption. One solar-pump vendor advertises a six-to-eight month payback built on diesel at ₦1,000 a litre — roughly a third of what the Bureau of Statistics actually recorded in May. The arithmetic is fine. The input is fiction, and the customer finds out in month nine.
There is a Nigerian precedent worth knowing: drip irrigation on tomato at Afaka, Kaduna paid back in 2.7 years at a benefit-cost ratio of 1.90, in a peer-reviewed trial. Different technology to ours — that study measured drip, not sensors — but it is real, local, published evidence that irrigation capital returns on Nigerian ground.
The season will not wait for you.
Planting dates do not move, and neither does a shipping schedule. We are not pretending we can put probes in your soil next week — the hardware is chosen but not yet ordered, and the survey is the part that happens now. Tell us your crop, your zones and your water source on WhatsApp, and you will get a straight answer on what it takes, what it costs, and when it can realistically be in the ground.