How C-SAFE Leveraged TraceX Solutions for Efficiency and Profitability
In collaboration with C-SAFE, the Sri Amaranarayana FPO addressed the inefficiencies in the tomato value chain with TraceX’s Farm Management platform. This solution provided visibility and transparency throughout the supply chain, from farm to market, addressing issues like manual record-keeping, lack of digitization and tracking of agronomy practices.
C-SAFE (Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Agriculture & Farm Excellence) was launched to celebrate the 150 years of Tata Group. C-SAFE works with the Sri Amaranarayana FPO at Chintamani, to help farmers in tomato cultivation and provide the market reach. C-Safe focuses on enhancing values for small marginal farmers.
Industry
Agribusiness
Region
India
Use Case
Supply Chain Digitization with farm and crop management
Features Used
Farmer Profiling
Farm mapping
Crop Master
Harvest Planning
Grading & Distribution
N.Narasimha Reddy CEO of the AmaraNarayana FPO says, “ From the time we adopted TraceX’s farm Management Solutions, the farmers and our company has benefitted immensely. It has helped us in gathering the right information about inputs and has improved the quality of produce.”
Challenges
Challenges faced by Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) in the tomato value chain include:
Limited access to agricultural inputs and inadequate knowledge of soil health management, hindering optimal crop growth.
Ensuring high crop grade quality to meet market demands and secure fair prices for farmers.
Managing post-harvest losses during harvesting, handling, and grading due to inadequate infrastructure and pest/disease management.
Dealing with numerous intermediaries in the supply chain, leading to significant post-harvest losses.
Addressing challenges in grading, packaging, storage, and transportation, resulting in additional losses.
Coping with manual record-keeping and outdated farming practices, highlighting the need for digitization.
Managing price volatility due to the lack of cold chain infrastructure for preserving tomato quality during transportation and storage.
Solutions Offered by TraceX
TraceX’s Farm Management Platform addresses challenges in the tomato value chain by providing comprehensive solutions for digitizing farm operations and optimizing crop management. Here’s how it helps:
Onboarding and Mapping: TraceX facilitates the onboarding of farmers through a multilingual offline mobile app, streamlining the process of integrating them into the digital platform. The software maps farm locations in a geospatial environment, enabling efficient management of agricultural land covering 420 acres.
Crop Management: The platform allows for the configuration of crop details and package of practices, ensuring that farmers have access to essential information for cultivating tomatoes effectively. By digitizing crop management processes, TraceX helps farmers make informed decisions regarding planting, irrigation, fertilization, and pest/disease control.
TraceX’s Farm Management Platform addresses challenges in the tomato value chain by providing comprehensive solutions for digitizing farm operations and optimizing crop management. Here’s how it helps:
Onboarding and Mapping: TraceX facilitates the onboarding of farmers through a multilingual offline mobile app, streamlining the process of integrating them into the digital platform. The software maps farm locations in a geospatial environment, enabling efficient management of agricultural land covering 420 acres.
Crop Management: The platform allows for the configuration of crop details and package of practices, ensuring that farmers have access to essential information for cultivating tomatoes effectively. By digitizing crop management processes, TraceX helps farmers make informed decisions regarding planting, irrigation, fertilization, and pest/disease control.
Harvest Planning and Insights: TraceX generates harvest dashboards that provide valuable insights into crop growth and yield, enabling farmers to plan their harvest timelines effectively. By leveraging data analytics, the software helps optimize harvesting operations, ensuring optimal timing for maximum crop quality and yield.
Grading and Distribution: After harvesting, TraceX facilitates the grading of tomatoes according to quality standards, ensuring consistency and uniformity in product quality. The software also assists in packing the tomatoes into crates, categorizing them based on grades. This ensures that higher-grade produce is directed to supermarkets, while lower grades are allocated to local markets, optimizing distribution channels.
Standardized Farming Practices: TraceX enabled CSAFE to implement standardized package of practices, ensuring consistent and quality tomato yield across farms.
Enhanced Resource Utilization: Farmers benefited from timely mobile notifications and agronomic insights provided by TraceX, enabling optimal utilization of input resources such as pesticides and fertilizers, leading to increased productivity and reduced costs.
Adoption of Best Practices: TraceX empowered farmers to adopt best practices for quality yields by providing tracking of package of practices and offering end-to-end visibility of the entire value chain.
Improved Market Linkages: With better visibility and traceability facilitated by TraceX, farmers were able to establish stronger market linkages, thereby enhancing market access and opportunities for selling their produce.
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