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The AI tool helping flower farms cut pesticide use
A scout at Florensis Kenya horticulture company in Naivasha, Nakuru County Catherine Marofu explaining to a group from Data Science Limited on how sticky monitoring cards work to detect pests on July 16, 2026.
Twice every week at one of the country’s largest flower farms in Naivasha, crop scouts walk through greenhouse rows of flower seedlings, pausing every few metres to key data into tablets as they inspect each bed for signs of pests and diseases.
The software powering the exercise is called Bluleaf, an integrated pest management system built by Kenyan technology firm Data Science Limited. The company is the brainchild of computer scientist Linet Kwamboka Nyang’au.
