when to plant

The rains moved.
Your planting date should move with them.

The week your parents planted is no longer the week the rains arrive. Divisi works out the planting window for your own field — from its climate, its soil and the crop you have chosen — and tells you which week to plant, then reminds you when the day comes.

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Divisi's verdict for one field: grows well here, plant November, harvest April

A Divisi crop card for hot pepper: planted 27 June, 40 days in, 15 tonnes per hectare projected now

You get one planting date a year. Miss it by three weeks and you spend the next five months paying for one morning's decision — with the same seed, the same fertiliser and the same work, for a fraction of the crop.

Two Divisi crop picks for one field, each with a photo, a grows-well-here verdict and the yield to expect

your field, not your district

A window worked out for this plot

A national planting date is an average of fields that are nothing like each other. Divisi starts from the growing period your own location actually has — when moisture arrives, how long it lasts, when it closes — and projects your crop's cycle onto it, so the window it gives you is one the crop can finish inside. Two farms in one district can get different weeks, because they are different farms.

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A Divisi task card: plant your maize on a good planting rain — protecting about 40% of the yield, marked high priority

A day in Divisi's 7-day outlook with a plain-words summary, UV and wind

the season you are in

Planted on rain, not on a date in a diary

A window tells you the fortnight. The rain tells you the morning. Divisi watches the forecast over your field through the window and calls the planting rain when it comes — so you go in on moisture that will carry the seed through germination, rather than on the date you wrote down in August and a false start that costs you the seed twice.

Also consider: ranked alternatives for this plot — hot pepper, robusta coffee and garlic, each able to grow here with care

El Niño and the years that break the pattern

What a drier year does to the same field

El Niño years, and the La Niña years that follow them, do not shift every field equally. Rather than pretend to forecast a season nobody can forecast, Divisi shows you the range: the yield your crop reaches in a normal year on your field, and what the same plan returns if the season comes in dry. A crop whose good year is barely better than its bad year is the one to plant when the outlook is uncertain — and that is a decision you can make in August, without knowing what January will do.

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From a window to a day in your hand

Pin the field

Drop a pin on the plot once. Divisi reads its climate, soil and terrain from that point — no soil test, no paperwork.

Pick the crop

Choose what you are growing, or let Divisi rank what suits the field. The window follows the crop's cycle length, not a generic season.

Plant on the call

The window lands in your calendar and the reminder arrives when the rain does — on the phone, offline, wherever the field is.

it doesn't work alone

One season, seen from every side

Divisi is one thing, not a bundle. Here is what this connects to — and why that matters more than any single feature.

Crop guides

The window tells you the fortnight; the plan tells you every job from that day to harvest.

Weather alerts

The forecast is what turns a planting window into a planting morning.

How it works

Where the growing period, the cycle length and the yield range actually come from.

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What we don't claim

Divisi does not forecast the season. Nobody can, three months out, at the scale of one field. What it does is narrower and more useful. It works out the growing period your location has had over two decades of weather records and projects your crop onto it; then it tracks the seven days in front of you closely enough to call the planting rain. The window comes from the climate record; the trigger is this week's forecast; neither is a prophecy, and we would rather say so than sell you one.

Questions worth asking

From your field's own coordinates. Divisi reads two decades of climate record for that point to work out when moisture reliably arrives, how long the growing period lasts, and when it closes — then projects your crop's cycle length onto that period to find the weeks in which planting still lets the crop mature before the season shuts. For crops that flower by the length of the day, it also checks that the crop will flower at the right time of year for your latitude. The result is a window for your plot, not a date for your country.

Often, yes — but not by guessing the season. Divisi shows each crop's yield in a normal year on your field alongside what the same plan returns if the season comes in dry, so you can see which choices hold up when the rain disappoints and which collapse. A shorter-cycle variety that finishes before the rains cut out is usually the better bet in an uncertain year, and Divisi will show you the difference in expected yield rather than telling you to hope.

The window is where to look; the rain is when to go. Divisi watches the forecast over your field through the whole window and raises the planting task when a genuine planting rain is coming, not on a fixed date. If the rains are late, the task waits with you. If a false start arrives — one wet morning with a dry fortnight behind it — that is exactly the pattern the seven-day scan is there to catch.

Yes. Divisi finds every stretch of your location's year wet enough to grow in, rather than assuming there is only one, so bimodal areas get both windows — the long rains and the short — with the crops that can finish inside each. Where a place genuinely has year-round growing conditions, it says that instead of inventing a season.

Yes. Your window, your crop calendar and the task reminders are stored on the phone once your farm is set up, so they are there in the field with no signal. The forecast that calls the planting rain needs a connection to refresh, but it refreshes whenever you have one and the last one it fetched stays readable offline.

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The rains moved. Your planting date should move with them.