The innovation stems from an FAO project – financed by the Austrian Development Cooperation (ADC), and the European Union’s Comprehensive Institution Building Programme (CIB). The aim of the initial pilot project was to create a network of agro-meteorology stations that use data on air temperature, humidity and other factors to forecast when the risk of crop disease spread will be high. Armed with this information, farmers can treat their plants according to weather conditions, and use less agrochemicals.