Your first week with FARMIS

You've installed FARMIS and saved a crop. This tutorial sketches a one-week routine that gets the app working for you instead of the other way around. None of these steps takes more than a minute or two.

Day 1 — Set up your week

• Open Weather and look at the 7-day forecast. Decide which days are best for land prep, planting, spraying, and harvest.
• Open Market Info and find the price of your main crop at your nearest market. Note the trend.
• Open Crops → your saved crop. Read the stage card on top so you know what's next.

Day 2 — Tune your dashboard

The Dashboard is most useful when your profile is accurate.

1. Open Profile → Edit profile.
2. Confirm your province, district, and nearest market.
3. Add any extra crops you grow but didn't pick during sign-up.
4. Save.

The next time you open the Dashboard, advisories and prices reflect the update.

Day 3 — Learn one pest

1. Open Pests & Diseases.
2. Tap Browse by crop and choose a crop you grow.
3. Pick one problem from the list (for example taro leaf blight or coffee berry borer) and read the entry top to bottom.
4. Tap the bookmark icon to Save it so you can read it later, even offline.

You don't need to memorise everything — knowing where to look is enough.

Day 4 — Ask one forum question

The forum is most useful when you participate, even a little.

1. Open Agri Forum.
2. Tap + to ask a question. A good question says:
   • what the crop is,
   • what the problem is and when it started,
   • your location and recent weather,
   • includes a clear daylight photo if possible.
3. Post it. Other farmers and experts answer over the next day or so.

If you don't have a question, reply to someone else's instead. Even a "we had the same problem and X worked" is useful.

Day 5 — Compare two markets

1. Open Market Info.
2. Look up your main crop at two different markets — for example Gordons and Lae.
3. Note the difference. Now you have actual price data when planning your next sale.

Day 6 — Save offline reading

Long bus or boat rides are great for catching up on reading.

1. Open the crop or pest entry you're most interested in.
2. Tap Save.
3. Repeat for two or three news articles in News.

These work without internet next time you open them.

Day 7 — Check in

• Did weather match your week?
• Did prices move the way you expected?
• Is there a question on the forum you can now help answer?

A 10-minute check at the start of each week is enough to keep FARMIS aligned with what's actually happening on your farm.

Where to go next

• The How-To Guides cover specific tasks — saving a crop, identifying a pest, ordering inputs, switching language.
• How crop advisories work explains where the recommendations come from.
• The FAQ answers the questions new users ask most often.