The planner
Ten scenes, ready to measure
Each scene is real imagery with its scale, the weather and soil on the day it was taken, and the crops the calendar says grow there. Open one and the tuner takes it from there; ask the adviser when it is done. Your session stays in this browser.
Saudi Arabia
5 scenes
Riyadh Province · 2025-03-02Al KharjFarm plots and a pivot or two on the edge of Al Kharj — the aquifer south of Riyadh that grows the Kingdom's fodder and milk.AlfalfaWheatDate palmOpen →
Riyadh Province · 2025-03-05Wadi Al-DawasirA cluster of centre pivots in the open desert — every green disc is pumped water; nothing grows between them.AlfalfaWheatDate palmOpen →
Eastern Province · 2025-03-02Al-Ahsa oasisDate-palm groves and a village inside the largest oasis in the world, fed by springs, with Al Hofuf just out of frame.Date palmRice (Hassawi)VegetablesOpen →
Al Jouf · 2025-04-26Al-BusaytaA corner of the Busayta pivot grid — Al Jouf's wheat, olive and fodder country, the Kingdom's olive capital.OliveWheatAlfalfaOpen →
Tabuk Province · 2025-03-17TabukPivots and a settlement outside Tabuk city in the north-west, where the winters are cool enough for stone fruit.WheatAlfalfaPeachOpen →
India — the paper's districts
4 scenes
Punjab · 2025-03-02LudhianaA village and its fields on the Punjab plain in early March: standing wheat almost everywhere, weeks from harvest.WheatRiceMaizeOpen →
Andhra Pradesh · 2024-12-23AnantapurFields and a town on the Deccan in December, after the north-east monsoon has greened the driest district in the state.GroundnutMilletsChickpeaOpen →
Gujarat · 2025-01-31AnandThe Charotar tract around Anand — the dairy cooperative's home — under winter wheat, tobacco and fodder, village by village.WheatTobaccoRiceOpen →
Kerala · 2025-01-25ThrissurPaddies of the Kole wetlands and houses under coconut, west of Thrissur, in the dry season.RiceCoconutBananaOpen →
