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Research / SYNTERA Agri

AI for Agriculture

  • Crop disease detection
  • Precision farming
  • Smart irrigation
  • Yield prediction

Why it matters

Food systems face climate pressure and volatile markets. AI can help farmers and policy makers see problems sooner and plan with better forecasts.

Key challenges

  • Limited labelled field data
  • Robust vision models in changing outdoor conditions
  • Reliable forecasting under market and weather shocks

Our approach

Computer vision, robotics and autonomous systems, together with machine learning and time-series forecasting for agricultural data.

Publications

Selected publications

  1. Journal2026

    Temporal feature engineering for agricultural commodity price forecasting in Nigeria: Evaluating machine learning, deep learning and time-series approaches

    Ogunjobi, D.; Shibl, R.; Saremi, S.

    Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, 1–28

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