What is SARU? SARU – denoting “bountiful” in the Sinhala language – is a low-cost, holistic automated “smart farming” kit to maximize the productivity and the benefits of climate-smart and resource-efficient “protected agriculture” – while solving the heavy requirement for human intervention in purely manual or timer-based protected-house cultivation. The intervention is designed to be affordable for smallholder farmers, returning the invested capital in 1-2 accelerated cultivation cycles, allowing farmers to reinvest and “bootstrap” themselves out of poverty and climate vulnerability through their own effort and earnings. Dialog' Focus on Digital Inclusion Dialog Axiata PLC has since inception placed a
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