Like already mentioned a computer is an essential resource tool to process, analyse and edit data that is gathered by the weather stations from TAHMO. The data that is gathered needs to be translated into data that can be used to produce the Farmer Forecast. For this there is need of meteorologists that could analyse the data and translate it. Together with a programmer it is possible to automate the process of translating the weather station data into understandable weather forecast which at the end can be formed into a Farmer Forecast.
As the Farmer Forecast is formed, it needs to be transmitted through the radio. The radio is a source, but transmitting the Farmer Forecast through a radio channel whereby the radio channel becomes a resource.
Also there is need of programmers that could create an algorithm, this to create automatic Farmer Forecast from the data that has been retrieved by the weather station. The algorithm is a next step, which automates the raw weather data of the weather station to Farmer Forecast.
All these steps cost money, and there is need of a financer to finance all these resources, it must be the local government or a local firm. GMet, Wienco and local government or LBCs are all possible financers and also customers of the Farmer Forecast. It must not be a development aid given by the rich west. As stated in a paper; ‘’An assessment of the development aid relationship reveals that this type of relationship has many negative results. High-income economies and their inhabitants tend to give what they perceive as needed [Easterly, 2006], and that does not necessarily coincide with what is actually needed by the population of low- income economies. And when aid provided by donor countries was needed, it sometimes was not received by the population that needed it (most). On top of this, development aid did not contribute to the economic growth of the low-income economies. Local entrepreneurs cannot compete with the donated products and services that are often offered for free. As a result, the development aid relationship even seems to have reduced the number of entrepreneurs in low-income economies and caused a lack of appreciation of the value of products or services, which draw from valuable ecological and social resource’’. [Vastbinder et al, 2012]
As already mentioned, the key resource is money. Money which needs to be provided to finance the project and keep continuity in providing up-to-date weather data for cocoa farmers. Not to forget it must not be a development aid provided by the rich west, but done by the local firms and government that contributes to redistribution of income and wealth.