DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN AGRICULTUREMobile App tracks farm cultivation and yield

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN AGRICULTURE

SNAPSHOT

■ Goal: App tracking farm cultivation and yields

■ Industry Focus: Agriculture/ Food Processing

■ Location: India

■ Technology Used: .NET

Android

Java

Oracle

Google Maps

CLIENT COMPANY PROFILE

■ Business Type: ■ Food processing business that sources produce from over

150,000 small acreage farmers

■ Requirement: Maintain accurate details about each farm for purchase

and payment of farm produce

More accurate prediction of production yields for the futures market.

Balance harvesting/cutting orders with the factory process lines for greater efficiency and yield

ENTERPRISE CHALLENGES■ Company relied on 300 field supervisors to track the

required information

■ Information was collected on hand-filled forms which caused time-lags and inaccuracies in the transfer of information

■ Absence of real-time data made it difficult for field supervisors to make decisions on whether to harvest the crop based on the crop maturity along with real time factory-loading at that time

■ Oversupply and undersupply issues

■ Very slow decision making process due to absence of real time data

ENTERPRISE CHALLENGES

Manual Systems

Record Management & Reliability Challenges

Oversupply and Undersupply Issues

Lack of Operational

Transparency

Poor Harvest Traceability

EXTENTIA’S SOLUTION

■ Prepared detailed mockups of the proposed digital transformation application to the client

■ The development team created an Android-based tablet application which accessed the existing data on the farms and farmers – and could register new farms as well

■ The application integrated GPS functionality which: Allowed the field supervisor to accurately map the farm

and the portion of the farm under cultivation

Ensured that all operations were still available offline

EXTENTIA’S SOLUTION

■ The data could be stored locally offline and then exchanged with the central servers when the device was back online

■ During harvest time:■ The field supervisors were able to communicate the

maturity of the crops to the factory manager

■ Factory managers could in turn convey their decisions on harvesting orders to the field supervisors in real time.

ANDROID APP CREATED“Sign-in” Screen

“Register Grower” ScreenGPS-mapping of a farm

BENEFITS■ Digitizing their agricultural process provided a wide range

of benefits to the client: With much greater data accuracy and data retrieval, the company

saw a great boost to efficiency

In addition to greatly improving accuracy, the app helped eliminate the need for 10% of the field supervisors

With exact mapping of the area under cultivation (with all the details of crop type, irrigation, etc.), the prediction of future crop yields significantly helped the company to make correct pricing decisions in the futures market

The improved real-time reporting and live synchronization of information made harvesting decisions much more effective and improved factory utilization

EXTENTIA’S AGRICULTURAL EXPERTISE

■ This project serves as a good example of Extentia’s experience and expertise in:

■ Digital transformation solutions

■ Agriculture domain knowledge

■ Enterprise Mobility solutions

■ Designing UI/UX for non-technical field supervisors

Feasibility Precision Investment Returns

More Information

■ Feel free to contact us on http://www.extentia.com/contact-us

■ Write to inquiries(at)extentia.com orcall +91 20 6728 5200 (India)/+1-408-627-4094 (United States)