10 Sep Guyana partners with St Kitts to innovate water management and yield improvement solutions for rice farmers across the globe

Teams Guyana and St Kitts consolidated their ideas to innovate a combination koker management–farm management system that uses sensors, motors, gears and smart technology to automate the kokers used by rice farmers. The system also introduces sensors into the farm landscape to provide critical information for farmers which is predicted to help them to increase yield by helping them to make better decisions about where to efficiently use water, fertilizers and pesticides. The farm management system is essentially designed to reduce farm costs, reduce water risks and increase farm yield, thereby driving down the cost of production of rice and other produce.

The FIRST Global Robotics challenge 2021 was designed to engage bright young people from more than 175 countries in the world, in a series of challenges for which they earn points and rankings. The challenges include robotics challenges–designing and building an automated drivetrain, a shooter launcher system, an automated intake system to pickup, hold, intake and release water bottles and a climber system inspired by Guyana’s koker gear system.