Block-Level Risk Visibility

Active deployment, Philippines · CASA · 4 farms · 172 fields · Jan 2023 – Apr 2026 · Sugarcane

Red-Striped Soft Scale Insect (RSSI) has put Negros Occidental under a state of calamity, and Binalbagan, where BISCOM's mill sits, is among the areas affected. RSSI thrives in hot, dry weather, and El Niño is intensifying right as the region enters its next crop year. The insect's advance and the weather behind it are the same story: one is accelerating the other.

Right now, public reporting on RSSI describes the province as a whole. It doesn't say which of BISCOM's own blocks, across the five-municipality mill district of Binalbagan, Hinigaran, Himamaylan City, Isabela, and Moises Padilla, are already showing stress, or how one planter association compares to another. Block-level monitoring closes that gap: instead of waiting for the next province-wide report, it shows which specific blocks, and which planter associations, need attention first, so treatment, replanting, or harvest timing can be prioritized by where the risk actually is.

CASA, a sugar mill in Iloilo, already works with Digital Harvest to track risk across four of their farms.

Province-Wide

32%

of Negros Occidental's sugarcane area affected by RSSI as of late June

Sugar Content Risk

Up to 50%

reduction in infested cane, per SRA-cited studies

Already in Practice

Rainfall Outlook Across Four of CASA's Farms

Seeing a dry shift coming, rather than discovering it once the dry spell has already taken hold, is what lets a grower adjust irrigation timing, prioritize inputs, or watch pest-prone blocks more closely while there's still time to act. The chart below is the real modeled outlook produced for CASA this season: projected rainfall for July through September 2026 against the same three months last year. Every farm is coming in drier, with the gap widening as the quarter progresses.

Block-Level View · Dulalia Farm

Seeing which blocks are already diverging, rather than waiting for the damage to show up in season-end numbers, is what lets treatment get targeted or harvest brought forward on exactly those blocks. The chart below shows what that looks like: 67 blocks on Dulalia Farm, all experiencing nearly identical weather this month, yet crop condition across them is not identical at all.

Furthest Behind

Block Range

Furthest behindRemaining blocks

Why This Matters

From One Number to Every Block

The same block-level data works at whichever scale a decision needs: rolled up to compare municipalities across the district, or narrowed to the block driving a given number. Decisions get made at the scale they require, instead of being forced into a single district-wide average.

A Foundation That Compounds

Each season adds to a continuously updated record for every block in the district. The next time a risk like this builds, the starting point isn't a blank province-wide bulletin, it's a season-over-season history of exactly how each block has held up before.

One continuously updated block-level view. It's the difference between waiting for the next province-wide report and knowing exactly where to prioritize treatment, replanting, or harvest sequencing.

Sample analysis. Figures shown are modeled from another Digital Harvest deployment, for illustration only, not BISCOM's own field data, and should not be used for operational decisions. Produced by Digital Harvest for BISCOM.