How TraceX helped KMIT farmers to achieve Sustainability in the Maize Supply Chain
The KMIT project harnessed the power of the TraceX farm management platform to bring all stakeholders in the maize supply chain together on a collaborative platform. This approach improved productivity and profitability for farmers while strengthening the sustainability of the supply chain. By combining agricultural expertise with a business perspective, KMIT was able to effectively assess markets, analyze supply chains, and pilot new ventures, ultimately ensuring sustainable livelihoods for thousands of farmers in Belgaum district.
KMIT project comprising of Krishi Mangal powered by Social Alpha and supported by Cisco CSR together with IFHD and TraceX supports the maize farmers in Belgaum employed through FPOs to transition from chemical agriculture practices to sustainable forms of production. This is an initiative that brings together the power of technology, catalytic platforms and CSR for the wellbeing of smallholder farmers.
Industry
Foundation – Non Profit Organization
Region
Belgaum, Karnataka, India
Use Case
Farm level digitization to improve their operational efficiency and achieving an optimized supply chain.The farm management platform has enabled the FPOs to keep a closed loop communication with their farmers during production and sales processes to realize the potential of a federated structure.
Features Used
Farmer Profiling
Farm mapping
Crop Master
Harvest and Procurement
Lingan Gowda, a farmer in Belgaum says, “The Krishi Mangal-IFHD-TraceX (KMIT) project has enabled us to use household ingredients for pesticide preparation to realise sustainable yields.The training sessions have helped us to adopt sustainable and effective agriculture practices while providing better market linkages”
Challenges
Anand is a young farming member of Laxmivenkateshwar FPO, Dadibhavi FIG LT3, Belgaum. He holds a total 3.5 acre of farmland in Dadibhavi village, growing various crop based on the season and geographic conditions.
Anand is one of the many farmers who has a number of challenges of under production where they cannot often produce sufficient food to feed their families and earn a decent livelihood. There are many factors that contribute to low yields.
These farmers predominantly farm rain-fed crops which are cultivated using traditional practices
They often take land on lease and during harvest, they give the partial produce to the landowner unable to reach the market
These farmers are unorganized and fragmented and are under-priced at various stages in production
Crop management is a wary process which needs constant planning and monitoring
They have limited access to capital and input resources along with low quality inputs.
The lack of post-harvest processing, storage facilities and marketing linkages makes these farmers sell their produce almost immediately after harvest
There is a need to collectivize these small and marginal farmers into FPOs to help them get organized.
Climate change is a major challenge for agriculture, food security and lives of millions of these farmers. The climatic vagaries cause harvest failures, and they cannot cover costs of production. Crop agronomy and tracking sustainable agriculture practices are inevitable.
Solutions Offered by TraceX
The stakeholders must help connect farmers to increase their farming capacity to address the supply and demand challenges. The FPOs need to have a cohesive approach with the farmers to achieve enhanced productivity and profitability.
Farm Management with TraceX
Let us see how the Trace- Gro, the pre harvest module works for Anand.
Anand is onboarded to the TraceX platform with a new digital identity, “KAAL2020418XXX”
He is able to grow Maize in 3.5 acres and Sorghum in 3 acres across 2 seasons of Kharif and Rabi in 2022 on his land.
His land is recognized with a defined geo-coordinate globally (Lat: 16.0510; Lon: 75.2898), the crop harvest carrying the origin information
The crop details are configured through a user-friendly mobile app along with crop advisory via Package of Practices.
7 activities are identified and configured with date schedules to carry out the tasks and track them accordingly
The gunny bags filled with maize derive a unique Batch ID[164146849XXXX]once it is updated on the app.
These batches ready for the market and sales get a TraceID[164146852XXXX] and QR code that gets tagged to the commodity.
Anand is ready to make the sales transactions with the local trader.
Key Takeaways
Anand gets a digital identity after he is onboarded to the blockchain platform
The crop management gets organized and easier to manage
The Package of practices configured enable him to optimize his crop inputs including pest management, that helps him to plan his future crop activities
The geo-mapping of his land validates the origin of what he is growing helping in establishing provenance and proving sustainability claims.
The produce is tagged with Batch IDs that help in keeping track of batches in the event of food hazards or contamination. Product recalls can be efficiently managed with low downtimes
The Trace ID brings in a unique digital identity to the final product that helps to validate its authenticity.
The QR code finally recreates the farm to fork story of the crop grown ensuring transparency and a trustworthy product to the end consumer.
Anand Bhimappa Lamani, today has a greater clarity on his crop management and yields. He is able to visualize the expenses incurred and the sales he has realized with the profit margins. It gives Anand a sense of satisfaction that he has got a return on his investment with all fairness and transparency with this digital traceability system.
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