Now available in 10 languages: The ECHOcommunity App

We are excited to announce that the ECHOcommunity app is now available in English, Spanish, French, Swahili, Thai, Haitian Creole, Khmer, Burmese, Vietnamese, Indonesian, and Chinese. Through ECHOcommunity you can discover ideas, research, and training on a wide variety of subject matter pertaining to agriculture and community development. ECHO's resources focus on small-scale agriculture in the tropics and sub-tropics and come from ECHO staff, network members, and development partners around the globe.

Resource Library: The app is designed to allow you to efficiently discover relevant resources and download them on your mobile device. Resources added to your library remain available when there is no internet connection and can be shared with others. A "low-data" mode allows those with metered, or limited bandwidth to browse the ECHOcommunity collection of resources while using the least amount of data possible.

Plant Records: Track your crop's lifecycle events from planting through harvest in the cloud. Plant Records can be used for any type of planting, whether a trial or production planting, whether an annual or perennial.  Users who acquire seeds from the ECHO seed banks can track and automatically report the progress of seed trials using this app.

The app allows you to record relevant data such as what and when you plant, weather events, interventions such as mulching, cultivation, pruning, and harvest. Along with each entry, pictures and notes can be stored for future reference. The data is retained in the cloud, so you will be able to look back at the seeds you have tried and how the trials worked for you.

Features

• Access to thousands of print and video resources in dozens of languages
• Offline storage and sharing of downloaded materials
• Ultra-low data usage mode
• The ability to ask questions of the global ECHO community