Ugbo: Ask Your Farm in Pidgin, Go Outside

Description and use

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>For most people, "touch grass" is a joke. For millions of smallholder farmers in Nigeria, the grass is the job, and getting it wrong costs a season.</p> <p>The question every farmer asks at this time of year is simple: "Rain don start. Make I plant maize now?" Plant too early, on a false start, and the seedlings die in the dry spell that follows. Wait too long and you miss the window. The answer

Problem

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>For most people, "touch grass" is a joke. For millions of smallholder farmers in Nigeria, the grass is the job, and getting it wrong costs a season.</p> <p>The question every farmer asks at this time of year is simple: "Rain don start. Make I plant maize now?" Plant too early, on a false start, and the seedlings die in the dry spell that follows. Wait too long and you miss the window. The answer

Outcome

<p><em>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week1-2026-10-05">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 1: Touch Grass</a></em></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p>For most people, "touch grass" is a joke. For millions of smallholder farmers in Nigeria, the grass is the job, and getting it wrong costs a season.</p> <p>The question every farmer asks at this time of year is simple: "Rain don start. Make I plant maize now?" Plant too early, on a false start, and the seedlings die in the dry spell that follows. Wait too long and you miss the window. The answer

Evidence

Ugbo: Ask Your Farm in Pidgin, Go Outside

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