When she was starting out, İşbank was one of the banks she visited to apply for loans, and someone there told her about the app and suggested she try it.
“As an engineer, I want to check, I want to control, I want to confirm,” she said. “And this app helps me checking the health of the plants, even when I’m away from the orchard, which is a great, great support, because I spend half of my time in İzmir, with my daughter.”
Using her background as an engineer, Ünsal researched and planned the best growing methods. She filled her pots with a growing medium imported from the Netherlands, built an irrigation system and planted northern highbush blueberries, a variety that could thrive in the valley, about 135 kilometers, or about 84 miles, east of İzmir.
She named the farm SummerBerriesafter her daughter, Yaz, 13.
“When I’m away, I check the satellite view, and I understand which parts have water scarcity, which part has greener leaves. Is there any problem health-wise? Is my irrigation system working properly?”
The app also gives alerts for frost and storms. Ünsal said that, for example, one fungicide she uses must be applied just after rain. Because of the specificity of the weather forecasts, she can reliably know, even from İzmir, when she needs to return to apply it.
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