14-day farm-specific weather — with spray and irrigation guidance built in

Generic weather apps aren’t built for farming

A weather app tells you it might rain tomorrow. A farmer needs to know whether the next three days will hold a spray window, whether tonight’s humidity will spike disease risk on the chili plot, and whether the dry spell coming this weekend means it’s time to extend irrigation cycles.

That’s the gap Peladang’s weather feature closes. It pulls forecasts at the exact GPS coordinate of each farm, then layers agricultural interpretation on top of the raw numbers.

What the forecast looks like

• 14-day horizon, daily granularityTemperature high/low, precipitation, humidity, wind, and probability of rain — every day for the next two weeks.
• Per-farm GPS positioningIf you have farms in Kuantan and Cameron Highlands, you see two different forecasts. No averaging, no nearest-major-city approximation.
• Today’s conditions on the dashboardA compact weather strip on the home dashboard shows current temperature, humidity, and rain probability per farm. One glance, six locations.
• AI advisory overlayUnderneath the forecast, an AI-generated paragraph translates the data into action: “Tuesday and Wednesday are dry — your spray window. Thursday onwards, expect humidity 80%+ overnight — chili anthracnose risk rises.”

How it integrates with the rest of the platform

Weather isn’t a sidebar feature in Peladang — it’s wired into the disease alert engine, the daily report form, and the spray planning workflow. When a worker opens a daily report, the weather fields pre-fill from today’s forecast. When the disease engine calculates risk, it reads the next 5 days of forecast data, not just today.

This matters for one practical reason: the same humidity that drives disease risk often drives spray failure. Spraying into 90% humidity at dusk means the chemical sits on wet leaves and washes off overnight. The forecast lets you avoid that mistake before you make it.

Configuration

One-time setup: pin each farm to its GPS coordinate (most farmers do this from the field, on their phone, in 10 seconds). The weather API key, AI provider, and advisory prompt template are all configurable in settings — but the defaults work out of the box for Malaysian conditions.

Who uses it most

Vegetable and chili growers check the forecast daily — disease pressure shifts fast in the highlands. Padi farmers care about it most around fertilizing windows. Perennial crop growers (durian, oil palm) check it weekly for harvest planning and spraying schedules. Everyone uses it to plan worker assignments around expected rain.