Ecuador Banana Production & Democratization of Climate Change Machine Learning Models to Mobile Edge Devices!

Bananas are an important and nutritionally diverse component in diets around the world. Revenue generated from trade in bananas plays an important role with regards to the food import bill of producing countries. Bananas have a particular significance in some of the least developed and low income food-deficit countries, where they contribute not only to household food security as a staple but also to income generation as a cash crop. Research conducted in ten banana producing countries revealed that income from banana farming accounts for some 75 percent of total monthly household income for smallholders. Nevertheless, climate change is impacting banana production in many countries. The impact of climate change not only increases lower yields in some countries but also render severe economic consequences to small holder farmers. As part of this innovative research paper, we provide deployment of complex banana production climate change models to farmers across the world to better plan adaptation strategies and thus reduce the overall negative impact and sustain financial returns.