About
Tun Yat (means tilling in Burmese) is an on-demand farming-as-a-service (FaaS) platform connecting farmers to machine suppliers, fertilizer and seeds, solar water pumps and agri-lenders. It focuses on how to use mechanization and other inputs to improve farmer yields.
Tun Yat offers a standardized service across a fragmented market, offering affordable, reliable and high-quality tractor and harvester rental services. Tun Yat enables greater yields through machinery, provision of inputs, crop buy-back, linkages to agri-lenders, and food ingredient sourcing and production.
Capability and features
Tun Yat provides mechanization and FaaS using American, Japanese and European tractors and combine harvesters. Tun Yat also offers specialized implements including laser-levelers, bean headers and peanut pickers. They match market pricing and provide well-trained machine operators. Farmers pay a market-rate per acre to rent machines for land preparation and harvesting crops including rice, maize, sesame, groundnut, and mung beans.
Farmers pay for machine bookings or orders using a mobile wallet provider that is integrated with Tun Yat’s Facebook platform. This transaction data is shared with NBFIs, MFI, and banks for lending against farmer transactions, credit-scoring and receivables. Tun Yat’s IoT sensor devices attached to machines collect accurate machine utilization data, which tractor dealers and banks providing tractor loans can analyze. Tun Yat offers a buy-back scheme for its maize farmers and is now sourcing rice, groundnut and sesame from its harvester and tilling farmer customers, working with their partners in food processing to help farmers convert these ingredients into value-added goods.
Progress to date
Tun Yat’s Service Hub have offered services to over 20,000 farmers, and after five years has harvested and tilled over 16,000 hectares with over 100 machine owners matching to the platform and service delivery each year.
Tun Yat has steadily built up a close-knit value chain to source machines and parts (John Deere), offers credit terms to farmers and collates data points from farm plots into a single platform for credit-scoring analysis and reporting to agri-lenders. Overall, the company saves their customers an average of US$ 120 each season by using more reliable and careful harvesting and tilling services and provides gains of more than US$ 750 for those that use multiple farming services including machinery, fertilizer and crop buy-back.
Tun Yat has partnered with several development organizations including USAID and World Bank, and INGOs including ICCO and Cordaid to conduct research into digital agriculture technology solutions for smallholder farmers across Southeast Asia – including Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar. The company has co-authored reports on rice, fisheries and pulses food-systems and actively engages in pilots with agri-lending institutions to explore digital agriculture solutions and business models that can be applied and scaled. It also works with corporate partners including John Deere Asia-Pacific.
Tun Yat is now expanding regionally to leverage its experience learned in Myanmar across Asia-Pacific.
About
FarmERP is an end-to-end software solution from “farm to fork” that helps smallholder farmers increase their efficiency and profitability. FarmERP simplifies the management of farming, harvesting, packing and retailing, and helps farmers match the market’s demands. This results in reduced inventory losses, full traceability and increased field staff mobility.
Capability and features
FarmERP is a complete solution from purchase, inventory, production, post production, planning, farm profile, accounts, contract farming including HR. Users benefits from the software’s data management, farmer ledgers, MIS reports, yield estimates and harvest records.
This results in enhanced productivity and harvest quality, decreased production costs and improved water conservation.
The platform can integrate weather stations, irrigation systems, sensors, drones, weighing scales and other hardware, along with legacy software such as MS Dynamics, Unity, SAP, Oracle, Netsis. It is also able to be used offline, then synchronised when internet is available.
Progress to date
FarmERP has 380,000 acres under management, with clients in 12 countries. Over 50,000 farmers have benefitted from FarmERP to date.
FarmERP has been successfully rolled out with Mahindra Agri Solutions for its grape operations, and Azersun for their vegetable business, providing complete traceability for their production.
Vishwaam Info Tech are currently developing a predictive agriculture framework for crop water requirements, crop simulation models and a blockchain integration to enhance traceability.
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ScanTrust is a smart packaging company that provides solutions to product authentication, supply chain traceability and consumer engagement. Through the patent, copy-proof QR codes, cloud-based business intelligence software and blockchain technology, ScanTrust helps brands digitise their physical products and enable two-way communication with end-consumers.
Capability and features
FMCGs benefit from product authentication/anti-counterfeit, track and trace, consumer engagement
Digitise your products and enable two-way communication with your end-consumers.
Input Manufacturers are able to track and trace their products and creating visibility across the supply chain.
Progress to date
ScanTrust was a finalist at the EUIPO Blockathon 2018 as the winner of the “Consumer” and “Customs” Challenges. ScanTrust was also rated “Best Product” & “Most Innovative Startup” at the 2nd EY Global Startup Challenge 2015.
ScanTrust has worked with 200 farmers to date, and has also worked with Argentinian Government on Fiscal Stamps for Seed Industry. They have partnerships with HP Indigo, Reynders, and Image Lake Image Systems
ScanTrust are a founding partner of the GoodChain Foundation – a Global, Decentralised Product Transparency Platform for Social Impact.
About
CROWDE is an agriculture-focused fintech startup that empowers farmers across Indonesia with technology and capital. It is a a farmer-friendly financing ecosystem that connects investors seeking attractive returns with farmers that are looking for capital to grow. Farmers are able to choose the interest, scheme, repayment, and collection method that works best for them to support their business. They then list their offer on CROWDE’s platform, where investors can finance the project. This helps to create employment and support local communities.
CROWDE generates revenue through trading margins from agricultural inputs sold through their application, making the platform financially sustainable.
Capability and features
Farmers receive training from CROWDE in farming, finance, and marketing in order to change their mindset from being just a farmer to be an Agropreneur. CROWDE’s closed-loop (zero cash ecosystem) help farmers be more efficient, and the application creates the habit of documenting their decisions.
Lenders can easily access the information about the project that they are funding, periodically receiving reports that show the progress of the project. Lenders can start to invest from as small as ten thousand rupiahs (around 0.70 USD today). Lenders may also pick the project based on their preference on lending scheme: profit-sharing, Shariah or loan.
Progress to date
CROWDE has been recognised by Forbes 30 under 30 (Asia Social Entrepreneur Category), and was the winner of DBS SVCA Asia 2017.
CROWDE have worked with more than 14,000 farmers, 500 agriculture suppliers, and 132 agriculture buyers, and is partnering with several banks in Indonesia.
They also work with Ministry of Villages, Disadvantaged Regions, and Transmigration of the Republic of Indonesia to help them control and giving insight for every villages in Indonesia.
In three years, CROWDE aim to connect with more than 150,000 farmers in Indonesia, disburse more than 50 Million USD and start to expand the market to South East Asian Countries.
About
JEDTrade is a leading technology company that builds business solutions powered by blockchain technology. JEDTrade believe that technology should be built around the business and its use cases.
As such, their blockchain advisory is centred on providing objective guidance and insights that are tailored to each client’s industry and needs. They blend our blockchain knowledge with subject matter expertise in trade and supply chain finance to create tailored solutions for clients.
JEDTrade deem blockchain as the key to democratising power and resources with trust, fairness and accountability. The blockchain project Jupiter Chain is a Smart Consentable Data Exchange platform that aims to create a privacy-preserving federated blockchain which enables the use of analytics.
JED Dynamic Discounting is an enterprise solution to help suppliers and buyers to optimise trade and cash flow by achieving a win-win outcome in terms advance cash flow and better yields. JEDTrade is an early supporter of the Networked Trade Platform by GovTech Singapore as a Value-Added Service (VAS) provider.
Progress to date
JEDTrade has been an early supporter of the Networked Trade Platform (NTP) by GovTech and SGCustoms as a Value-Added Service (VAS) provider.
About
Saillog utilizes artificial intelligence and computer vision algorithms for remote crop disease and pest management. Saillog developed Agrio, a smartphone app that enhances biosecurity for farmers. The Agrio smartphone app provides guidance on integrated pest management, surveillances the spread of pests and diseases, dispatches warning alerts for impending infestations in affected areas and high risk zones, and enables communication between farmers and agriculture experts.
Capability and features
Agrio is a mobile application that uses a deep learning-based computer vision algorithm that surpasses human capability and integrates the knowledge of numerous experts. Agrio’s basic system feature is free and identifies crop diseases, pests, nutritional deficiencies, and abiotic stresses and provides treatment suggestions across multiple methods (i.e., biological, cultural, organic, and chemical). Users can opt to submit their images to a forum where they communicate directly with in-house agricultural experts for additional guidance. Agrio provides farmers with quality precision agriculture and supplements the lack of agriculture extension experts worldwide.
Within Agrio, users can subscribe to AgrioShield, which is the first artificially intelligent global alert system that generates warning alerts to farmers and inspectors based on geographical spread and forecasting models. AgrioShield is offered on a sliding scale depending on the income of the nation.
Saillog also has a B2G model that provides governments and nonprofits access to a macro-level dashboard solution. The dashboard solution improves productivity, prioritizes inspections, tracks the spread of diseases and pests, increases agriculture yields through reductions in pre-harvest losses, and supplies adjunct evidences for risk assessment.
Progress to date
Agrio has accumulated over 80,000 downloads organically. The smartphone application supports 15 languages and has diagnosed over 400,000 images through its artificial intelligence algorithms. Saillog won the Roddenberry Catalyst Fund, along with other prizes and grants. Saillog was a first-responder in the fall armyworm outbreak in India; the algorithms detected the infestation and the artificially intelligent global alert system sent notifications (with written preventative measures) to farmers in infected areas and high risk zones.
Saillog is developing a speech-to-text solution (with translation capabilities) that will enable interactions between users and agriculture experts through voice and video for those who are unable to read or write.
About
Remote Grid gives farmers the ability to harness data from on-site or remote devices such as sensors, drones and satellites, handheld displays and smartphones. It can be used in agriculture, aquaculture, pisciculture, hydroponics, manufacturing and healthcare industries.
Farmers use this technology to monitor, track, predict & act on soil, water & crop parameters (pH, nutrients, conductivity, oxygen, sunlight, etc.)
Capability and features
Remote Grid has developed Wifi/GPRS/3G capable motes for multi-sensor connectivity with ability to output control signals. Remote Grid has also developed soil nutrient assessment sensors.
Remote Grid has the ability to integrate structured 3rd party databases (e.g. soil, weather, crops), and unstructured social media chatter through APIs for comprehensive predictive and prescriptive analytics. This gives farmers the ability to capture information from the field, transmit to a cloud and present on a smartphone/tablet.
Government benefit from real-time condition monitoring, land usage data and yield predictions.
This gives them a much better knowledge of the land under cultivation, health, yield & population well-being.
FMCGs are given the ability to predict output/yield, inputs, production and ultimately profits. Companies pay a setup fee and small monthly subscription, as well as ordering additional product enhancements and integrations.
Progress to date
Remote Grid has filed a Grand Architecture patent, and has already been rolled out with several farmers. The team are currently working on the integration of weather forecasts, yield forecasts, and connection to social media interest groups for problem sharing amongst farmers.
About
Eaglesensing collects and processes images from satellites, manned aircraft and drones to analyze sizable tracts of land. Farmers and plantation owners can see several layers of information, such as Orthomosaic, Digital Terrain Model, water logging, contour lines, plant health, tree counts and planting densities. The system is fast, cost effective, features detailed imagery, and gives actionable output. Clients can also collect the required images themselves, and simply upload for analytics. Results are subsequently presented on a platform.
Capability and features
Eaglesensing uses a SaaS model that can be tailored to suit each client based on required deliverables. The system is constantly developing new features through machine learning.
Farmers use this technology to receive actionable management information for precision agriculture, which improves the allocation of resources. Through APIs integration with Farm management systems is possible.
Lenders are able to improve their due diligence practices by verifying land titles and checking if loans are being used for what was claimed. This allows them to make fast and accurate loan assessments.
Progress to date
Eaglesensing worked in numerous projects in the oil palm, banana and sugar cane industry, with both private sector and NGO partners. In Asia over 40 farms used or are using the technology, several through an annual subscription.
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Crabifier is a mobile application that identifies to species a juvenile mud crab by analyzing the shape of its carapace. It is useful of mud crab farmers and traders in detecting preferred species for grow out and validating the pricing of crablets for sale.
Capability and features
Crabifier helps farmers identify if captured or sold juveniles are of their preferred species. Crabifier can also be used by traders for species identification of juvenile mud crabs. Through the app, traders can be assured that they are providing the right species to the right farmer, and can also allow for better stratification of prices of different species.
Mud crab researchers can also use the app for the same reasons, but scientists can also benefit from the back-end processes and systems that allowed the development of Crabifier. Through a system that combines image analysis and molecular biology, researchers can find morphological markers to differentiate varieties, species, and developmental stages, and create an algorithm to automate the process. This democratizes the disciplines and allow for a more efficient and consistent method of identification for different purposes.
Progress to date
Crabifier has worked with five farmers and is set to be tested in the mud crabs farms of Cagayan, Bataan and Iloilo to showcase its current state of accuracy and mobility. Interested parties from local governments, trade schools and state universities have also signified their interest in learning about the technology.
A new project involving Crabifier seeks to democratize the use and development of such technologies through a training program that will teach members of local governments, state high schools and universities, and agriculture and aquaculture stakeholders that basic principles of DNA barcoding, image analysis and programming. This targets the creation of a national network knowledgeable in the use of the technique and involved in the discussions and movements towards the modernization of Philippine agriculture and aquaculture practices.
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The Digital Farm Development Plan (FDP) is a diagnostic mobile tool that combines knowledge of agronomic practices with data on farm economics, and the needs and preferences of a smallholder cocoa farming family. The FDP is designed to map the entire farm area, and designate distinct polygons that are classified by their use (for example: planted with cocoa, unplanted, or personal use). It produces a seven-year investment plan for the farmer, with future Profit &Loss forecasts adjusted based on the inputs and activities farmers choose. If a farm household cannot afford a recommended investment (such as replanting trees, or applying fertilizer), the tool allows the farmer to set what they can afford and then recalibrates the P&L forecast and the plan itself. This participatory process increases farmers’ willingness to buy into the plan.
Capability and features
Farm coaches from private cocoa companies use the FDP to develop comprehensive profiles of farms and farmers. By using a digital tool and working with farmers interactively, customizing a long-term farm plan becomes manageable and possible.
Farmers use the tool’s seven-year profit and loss plan as a decision making tool for allocating limited resources. The plan shows the farmer a long-term P&L of the farm that includes investments and potential returns on a per plot basis.
Cocoa buyers extension service personnel use the tool to enhance their service deliver model,
Allowing them to coach / work with farmers more intensively to support farm investments coupled with specific interventions to boost productivity to 1.5 to 2 MT per hectare.
Progress to date
The FDP has assisted almost 2,000 farmers to date. The tool is being used in Indonesia, Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire. Grameen is working with Rainforest Alliance under the SAT4Farming consortium to integrate geo-data from WaterWatch and Satelligence to add data points that will help validate and bring down the costs of monitoring risks and adherence to the plan. Grameen and Rainforest Alliance are gearing to set up a social enterprise that will deliver the digital tool and related services to organizations in the broader cocoa value chain on a commercial basis.
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