Agricultural Information Systems
Design and development of ifarma:a farm management application for mobile devices
Why farm management?• Farm operations are becoming
more and more business oriented
• Farms become bigger
• High investments
• Different type of resources
• High competition in the market
• Pressure for protecting the environment
• Cultivation protocols and certified products
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Farm management int. approach
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Planning&
Scheduling
HumanResources
Management
Cultivation&
Inventory
AgricultureInputs
ManagementFinancial
Management
HarvestingPost Harvest
Marketing
Environment
Profit
ICT & Agriculture
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ifarma design & development• Literature and study of
international market
• Design of DB
• Integrating algorithms
• Choosing development platform
• Code development
• GUI development
• Pilot phase
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ifarma development pilot phase
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• 8 farmers from different areas
• Different cultivations
• Different farm size (17 ha – 120ha)
• Orchard & arable crops
• Pilot phase duration of 6 months
• ifarma & Tablet 7”
ifarma technical specifications• The ifarma is a Native application
for mobile devices• The main advantages are:
– Full portability– Data are stored on internet with cloud
technology– Ability to record Positioning (GPS)– Display properties in the device map– Use of camera– Automatic data synchronization– No internet connection is required*
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Main construction of ifarma
Determine the farm business
Planning all farm
activities
Financial analysis
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Determine the farm business
1. Land parcels
2. Farm constructions
3. Machines
4. Staff
5. Data bases
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Determine the land parcels
• Farms land parcels and cultivations
• Detail data according to national identification system
• Land parcels on map• Measuring of parcel
perimeter and area• Photos
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Determine farm machines and staff
• Farm machines– Type & serial number– Cost – Service ,etc– Photos
• Staff– Family– Employ– Subcontractor
Data bases – auto updated
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• Pesticides– Substance– Crop disease– Available in storage– Expiration day– Manufacturer– Days after application for
harvesting
• Fertilizers– Type– Available in storage– Transactions
Planning & Management
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1. Inputs
2. Standard tasks
3. Standard group of tasks
4. Farm business plan
5. Follow & implement the scheduled plan
Standard cultivation tasks• Standard tasks
• Standard tasks for different crops
• Inputs per task (labour, machines, pesticides, etc)
• Standard cost and average efficiency per input and per task
• Automated creation of task schedule
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Standard cultivation tasks• Standard tasks
• Standard tasks for different crops
• Inputs per task (labour, machines, pesticides, etc)
• Standard cost and average efficiency per input and per task
• Automated creation of task schedule
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Standard cultivation tasks• Standard tasks
• Standard tasks for different crops
• Inputs per task (labour, machines, pesticides, etc)
• Standard cost and average efficiency per input and per task
• Automated creation of task schedule
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Farm business plan• New crop
• Creation of farm plan per crop for each parcel
• Auto creation of daily to do list
• Following a cultivation protocol for certification (Agrocert , GlobalGAP)
• Economic analysis
• Cost analysis per input factor and per crop
• Figures
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Following to do list• Task list per crop, parcel,
input factor
• Record of all tasks
• Cost per input factor and sum cost
• Record of pesticides and fertilizers use
• Total implementation of all tasks (fast record)
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Diary• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Alerts and notifications (payments, machine service, etc)
• Fast creation of new task on the calendar
• Task record on field
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Economics
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1. Economic budget
2. Warehouse inventories
3. Sales revenue
4. Expenses
5. Balance
Financial monitoring• Full financial monitoring
• Transactions (rents, purchases, expenses, income, depreciation, etc.)
• Centralized and detailed picture of transactions by type
• Archive (suppliers - customers – banks, etc)
• Reports per transactor
• Possibility of preparing and monitoring budgets
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Preferences - settings
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1. Personal data
2. Farms
3. Cultivation periods
4. Data bases
i. Backup
ii. Recover backup
iii. Synchronize DB
iv. Initialization of DB
5. Disconnection
Main advantages of using ifarmaOverview of whole farm business
• Recording assets and liabilities of the company
• Logging operations and inputs
Finance control and cost control
• Income
• Expenditure
• Markets - Stocks
• Services and fees
• Cash flows
Increase the productivity and
efficiency
• Good Agricultural Practices
• standards Programs
• programming
• Calendars - Reminders
Improve my decisions
• Economic analysis and cost analysis per crop and input
• Better communication with the consultant - agronomist
• Historic data for all activities and financial results
Put added value in the
products
• Logging operations and inspection check rates
• participation in management and certification.
• Keeping Time allowed reintroduction before harvest
• Traceability level lot for yield
• New markets
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Future applications based on ifarma1. Development of web version of ifarma
2. Development of a certification software for farm groups and consultants power by ifarma
3. Development an application for livestock farmers
4. Translation of ifarma to other languages
Everybody is welcome to download and use ifarma
http://ifarma.agrostis.gr/
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