Crops and seasons
CultivaNode starts with 15 crops grown across the South-West, for both rainy seasons and dry-season vegetables.
Crops at launch
Cocoa, oil palm, cashew and citrus are coming later in the pilot.
- Maize
- Cassava
- Yam
- Rice
- Cowpea (beans)
- Plantain and banana
- Egusi melon
- Sweet potato
- Tomato
- Pepper (tatashe, rodo, shombo)
- Okra
- Amaranth (tete)
- Jute mallow (ewedu)
- Cucumber
- Watermelon
Three seasons
Early rainy season
Main planting from the first steady rains, roughly March to July.
Late rainy season
Second planting from about August to November.
Dry season (irrigated)
Vegetables and other crops grown with irrigation from about November to March.
Two farming zones
Rainforest
The humid forest belt: much of Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Ekiti, southern Oyo and Lagos.
Derived savanna
The drier transition belt: northern Oyo, northern Ogun and parts of Osun and Ekiti.
Recommendations you can trace
Every plan and fertiliser or spray amount comes from a written standard for that crop, zone and season, reviewed and approved by agronomists. The app shows which standard it used, so you and your extension agent can check it.