If centuries of agriculture have taught humanity anything. It is the fact that rich, bio diverse topsoil produces increased yield and increases the quality of the crop. Topsoil is considered the quintessential requirement for fruit full farming, forming the organic layer of the land composition and housing essential nutrients required for crop cultivation. Additionally, ninety-eight percent of the crops consumed grow on the upper 3 inches of topsoil. Dimitra APAC

However, in the last 100 years alone, the world has lost nearly 30 to 50 percent of its topsoil. Even across some tropical bio diversities such as southern Asia due to urbanization and sub standard agricultural practices. The integrity of the topsoil is of paramount importance to agriculturists worldwide. Which has become a global concern in the current day and age. These factors have cause soil erosion. Further degrading the quality of crops and the fertility of the land. “Due to improper soil management, productivity per acre of land diminishes,” says Jon Trask, Co-Founder and CEO of Dimitra, A data driven agriculture technology company. By ensuring efficient soil management, bolstered by healthy farming practices, Track’s business helps agriculturists thrive through precision farming. Thereby up holding the critical drivers of agriculture: Transparency, Sustainability, Traceability, and Provenance.

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Upon engaging with a farmer, Dimitra defines the farming goals of an agriculturist, which serves as a blue print for the company’s technological deployments. “Let us look at a pepper farmer growing jalapeno peppers, for example,” begins Trask. “There are definitive soil conditions and nutrients that are conducive to growing peppers, as is with any crop in the world across any geography. Ensuring these ideal conditions is the first step to farming.” Dimitra has developed a platform that takes into account these definitive farming goals to help farmers achieve two distinct objectives.

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Dimitra USAToday – Dimitra.io is driving global sustainable agriculture with CeDeFi loans and technology designed to help farmers make better decisions. Their loans provide small family farms with vital access to capital in more than 68 countries—over 100 by 2025. To support farming and trade activities, Dimitra works with millions of farmers and hundreds of loan providers. The blockchain-based app offers various services, including recordkeeping, agribusiness analysis, satellite analysis, sensor tracking and more. “Every smallholder farmer, regardless of economic status, should be able to benefit from simple, beautiful, and useful technology…because when farmers thrive, economies thrive,” said Jon Trask, CEO @dimitratech. Dimitra USAToday

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Dimitra USAToday – Dimitra Incorporated is a global Agtech company with a mission to help smallholder farmers across the world. Dimitra works with governments, government agencies, NGOs, and for-profit organizations. The Dimitra platform built on blockchain technology. And incorporates mobile technology, machine learning, IoT devices, satellite and drone imagery, genomics, and advanced farming research. Through our data driven approach, Dimitra helps farmers increase yields, reduces expenses, and mitigates risk. Dimitra believes that every smallholder farmer, regardless of economic standing, should benefit from simple, beautiful, and useful technology.

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By 2050 we will need to feed 9.7 billion people. In 2021, over 1 billion people go to bed hungry everyday, in the past five years this problem is growing, not reducing. One third of the world’s population are smallholder farmers, operating subsistence level farms, typically smaller than 5 hectares and struggling to produce enough food to feed their own family.  In G20 nations, farmers have access to technology that helps them operate their farm as a commercial enterprise, greatly exceeding their own family’s needs and allowing them to supply food to hundreds of people. There is certainly a significant divide which needs to be closed. Dimitra USAToday

5 leaders the world of technology is venturing into uncharted territory. Where a collective effort pushed online experiences into new realms of efficiency and effectiveness. Now, on the cusp of Web 3, interoperability and participatory culture are well established. Consumer demand is rising for something new.

Technology solves a lot of the world’s problems and has the potential to do so in ways that affect everyone on the globe. That’s what Web 3 is about: a boundary-less multiverse of endless possibilities. And an upgrade into new territories of human-machine cooperation.

Perhaps the best-developed component of the internet of the future comes in gaming, with entertainment happening every day in the metaverse. This is a space where many business leaders see growth potential. And those with an eye to the realities of Web 3 are already imagining what kind of business can be won. Or conducted in alternate realities.

While digital assets have been taking mainstream media by storm, “Phygital” products might be the nearer future for most of us. The value of a sweater that keeps you warm during the winter but also comes with a digital clone that gives you magical powers in a video game is a lot easier to understand than a pure JPEG.

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Building a metaverse requires a balance between designers and engineers; specialists in both fields are often quite idealistic and stubborn in their own ways. To effectively bridge the two without compromising either, the leadership must emphasize on the player and game narrative rather than the business directive. While maximizing profit motivates investors, a good story motivates everybody.

This type of customer-centricity, even while understanding. And supporting the business potential in the metaverse, encapsulates the ethos of Web 3. If Web 2 paved the way to uphold the end-user. Web 3 puts that user on the throne, catering to their every need and reducing any friction in the process.

There is a predictable adoption curve for new technology, and the metaverse is no exception. But the future of blockchain as it stands today can go either way. Like the old west, today’s landscape is filled with outlaws, misfits, and uncertainty. In the hands of responsible developers, it is an opportunity to begin again, take what is broken in Web 2 and fix it through Web 3.

A word of caution, though: If left unchecked, the natural tendency for humanity to misbehave behind a wall of anonymity will destroy the frontier before it even gets a chance to mature. Nevertheless, entertainment within the metaverse as full of potential as a revenue driver for companies of all kinds. That is, if it effectively serves the end-user, and encourages transparency, solid principles of practice, and catalyzes operational excellence. 5 leaders

“Enabling Technology” for a People-Centered Web 3

We are seeing an emerging trend in which Web 3 is people-centered, a principle that competent leaders already understand. But it’s not about who is specifically good at a certain skill set. Such as having the BEST engineer or UX designer. But how each team member can multiply everyone else’s efforts by tenfold. Especially at the early stage, this team dynamic is critical for the exponential growth. Needed to escape the great filter of many failed startups. There is no room for error.

The Future of Food in the Real World – 5 leaders

In a totally different sector, some of the original parties in blockchain technology are working to solve problems in the real world with Web 3-friendly strategies. Jon Trask has been an innovator in this space for decades. And has experience of scaling businesses and applying sophisticated technology. He is bringing this acumen to a startup called Dimitra, an agriculture technology platform. Trask and his team of experts are deploying agtech tools. To support smallholder farmers around the world and are already in over 70 countries.

In this alone, Trask faces an unusual leadership dynamic: “Balancing teams of agricultural technologists with app designers and software developers has its own unique challenges. Great people are the key to success and running highly diverse teams has brought incredible value to the design and development process. We wouldn’t be as successful without diverse teams” Dimitra already has active partnerships with government agencies worldwide, which makes the diversity component mission-critical for the company.

The company is harnessing the power of blockchain to create truly useful tools that support food production around the world. “I personally look at this technique as innovating with purpose, innovating to solve a problem but having a clear vision of what outcome we are trying to achieve.” He urges other leaders working toward Web 3 with this directive, “We need to leave room for research, ideation and repetition in our discovery and development process. Balancing innovation and cost is sometimes a challenge. But we need to invest and plan for innovation in today’s Web 3 world.”

In his words, “Blockchain plays a key role in the systems and platforms of the future. Over the past few years we’ve started to uncover where blockchain fits into a developer’s toolbox and this has led to the evolving area of Web 3.”

The Power of Tomorrow Starts Today

Web 3 will be full of value from an amalgam of technologies, including machine learning, IoT, data analytics, and more. Delivering these to the end-user in a way that is so effortless. So easy, and optimally efficient is the driving force behind leading innovations in this space. Leading into the future of new online structures and experiences won’t be easy. But purposeful, passionate, mission-driven leaders are already achieving it every day. 5 leaders

DroneX builds bespoke drones to meet the requirements of industries. Dimitra DroneX.ai

Dimitra and DroneX are working together to create a bundled — Hardware/Software solution for small farmer communities.

Creating new jobs and agtech businesses will enable the Dimitra tokenomics, by using Dimitra Points to book and order a drone service.

The initial projects that Dimitra and DroneX will work on is the development of a spray drone and management platform. The initial target will be South East Asia.

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DroneX is dedicated to empowering world’s leading enterprises with actionable intelligence about their physical assets using our smart drone based solutions. We are passionate professionals united by a common purpose: to pioneer the future in Unmanned aerial vehicle technology that’s transforming commercial industries. We are developing the most advanced drones and edge AI system to solve real world problems from asset inspections to disaster response and recovery, and so much more. Dimitra DroneX.ai

Together, we have our feet on the ground and our eyes on the bright future.

Dimitra Open Hardware Ecosystem (DOHE)

The DOHE encourages third party hardware technology companies to develop and deploy their own hardware devices into our eco system. Examples include IoT devices such as animal GPS and soil sensors, edge computing devices, WiFi gate ways and routers, robots, and drones, so that they work seamlessly within our extensive on-farm ag-tech eco system. For example, many equipment manufacturers offer farm equipment that contains built in IoT devices. These devices produce a great deal of rich data that put to good use in optimizing modern farming operations. Other important IoT device categories include motion detectors, intrusion detectors, live stock wearables, and many others.

Dimitra Incorporated is a global Agtech company with a mission to help small holder farmers across the world. Dimitra works with governments, government agencies, NGOs, and for profit organizations. The Dimitra plat form builds blockc hain technology. And incorporates mobile technology, machine learning, IoT devices, satellite and drone imagery, genomics, and advanced farming research. Through our data driven approach, Dimitra helps farmers increase yields, reduces expenses, and mitigates risk. Dimitra believes that every small holder farmer, regardless of economic standing, should benefit from simple, beautiful, and useful technology. Dimitra DroneX.ai

Dimitra CIO Review – For small holder and family farmers, the biggest challenge is productivity. Even though this specific group is responsible for 70-80 percent of the worlds food. They still lack access to cutting edge technology and data driven inputs about soil, vegetation, and weather conditions. “The small holder and family farms are greatly underserved technologically and affected by climate change and in many cases extreme poverty. As an AgTech provider, we have designed a connected farmer platform to help the world’s 570 million small holder farmers,” says Jon Trask, Founder and CEO, Dimitra Incorporated.

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Founded in 2019, Dimitra applies advanced technology, including AI, Blockchain, IoT, and Satellite, to provide actionable data that help farmers and governments enrich economies through increased crop yields and healthier live stock. “We start with farm planning, work through soil preparation, planting, and crop management all the way down stream to market including export,” says Trask. Each farmer on the Dimitra platform receives Dimitra Points to incentivize their usage of the system. Rewarding behaviors which maximize farming results create an additional incentive to the farmer.

This increases farmers’ outputs while reducing their costs and/or mitigating their risks. The farmers can earn points by registering and managing live stock and crops, using the market place, and providing data. These points convert to Dimitra tokens. And utilized to purchase agricultural services from other members of the Dimitra Ecosystem. This synergistic usage assists in developing the businesses of eco system members. And creates a sustainable network economy within the eco system.

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Dimitra collects data from all feasible and practical sources to feed its machine learning and crop models. These models, each designed to preform specific tasks. Produce outputs in the form of recommendations on farm management, alerts, system triggers, and robotic control.

Ten thousand years ago, the earliest farmers would forego herding live stock to stay home
and raise crops. Today’s modern small holder farmer must often grow crops, manage live stock, and hold down a full time job. It made sense to Jon Trask when a client once asked him if it could track live stock. Having worked on hundreds of projects in the food and consumer goods supply chain industry, he saw a gap in the $8.5 trillion global agri-business industry. He learned that there are 608 million farms in the world. Smallholder farmers account for 570 million of them but contribute one-third of the world’s food. That’s 3 billion subsistence farmers with a few acres of land. Dimitra Corporate Investment Times

Satellite Solutions: Giving Farmers a View from Above Satellites orbit at an altitude of about 36,000 km above the Earth’s surface. This technology offers many opportunities for data driven agriculture. Having the availability of satellite data on registered farms provides powerful monitoring and control capabilities that farmers previously lacked. The Dimitra platform integrates with national business registration databases, which provide a wealth of farm information. This information is coupled with satellite data and analyzed to provide actionable data for farmers to utilize and set smart and sustainable goals for their farms. Dimitra uses dozens of machine learning models to assist with analytics. Their platform uses geo fencing, which also makes weather tracking possible. This information can be combined with all types of animal and crop information to improve yields, increasing profits.

Preventing the Costly Problem of Cattle Rustling – Dimitra Corporate Investment Times

Stolen live stock is one of the biggest challenges facing the Asian and African agricultural industries. As a result, multiple countries around the globe have adopted the Dimitra plat form to help solve their live stock problems. Thieves steal millions of cattle every year on farms globally. Unfortunately, it is easy for them to remove live stock IDs and create false documents. Dimitra’s solution solves the problem by encrypting breeder data and animal registration on the block chain. To avoid removing the animal’s identifying information, sensor based technology is placed in the animal’s rumen. Or a tag based technology hidden under the animal’s skin. An affordable identifier for determining ownership of cattle at a border crossing is a nose print or photographing the animal’s nose.

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In this brief of Platforms for Sustainable Food Production, we show how blockchain technologies, combined with artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and other digital innovations, can secure our global food supply, one farm at a time. The solutions we discuss focus on topsoil—mitigating the effects of chemicals, aggressive tillage, monocultural crops, and climate change. The goal is to give farmers the tools and training they need for sustainable food production, transforming the long-term viability of their businesses in the process.

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Smallholder farmers are the most vulnerable to climate threats and the least able to cope. With access to digital technologies, they can begin to implement sustainable practices. »Dimitra is a start-up company that aims to deliver agriculture technology to millions of these farmers worldwide. »Blockchain technology is an indispensable tool for agriculture. It can transact payments, aggregate seed quality data, monitor crop growth, and track yields from farmer to retailer. Farmers accrue Dimitra points within the app and exchange them for agricultural products and services. Such as agrochemicals, crop insurance, and expert advice.

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Dimitra created an ERC-20 token (DMTR) to drive its farming platform as a circular economy. Liquidity providers stake DMTR tokens to power this economy. The future of farming and our food Family-run farms. Produce an estimated 70 to 80 percent of the world’s food in terms of value. On average, the poorest of these operate on less than two hectares of land. One hectare of land is roughly the size of a football pitch (i.e., soccer field). Such smallholders account for 84 percent of all farms globally, grow roughly 29 percent of the world’s crops yielding 32 percent of the world’s food supply, but manage only 24 percent of all agricultural land.

Farmers are under constant pressure to achieve a maximum yield to feed their families and make a living. Typically, smallholder farmers reserve much of their own yield for their own subsistence, especially at the start of each season.3 For example, Nicaraguan smallholders sell nearly half their produce, whereas Nepalese sell only 12 percent.4 If farmers could increase their yields and sell more throughout the season, they would improve their livelihood as well as their impact on the global food supply.

The effects of climate change

Constancy, predictability, and balance are keys to successful agriculture initiatives over time. Yet, according to National Geographic, “Global climate change is destabilizing many of the natural processes that make modern agriculture possible.”6Changes in climate that alter seasonal patterns, distress crops or animals, or incubate pests and diseases all increase farming costs. Erratic weather patterns, drier conditions, and an increase in global temperatures have a negative impact on farmers’ crop yields.The effects of climate change disrupt farms of all sizes at all stages of the production cycle, from seed selection to transportation.

These seasonal changes and increased variability are pushing the limits of what farmers can grow and control. They can no longer rely on historical farming data. Instead, they make decisions based on predictions of how climate change will affect their farm. For example, they may need to prepare for flooding or drought events and change their growing methods, crop choices, and agricultural practices. Smallholder farmers in developing countries are the most vulnerable to the climate threat and the least able to cope.8 Yet, only 1.7 percent of climate finance is set aside for these smallholders.9Moreover, of the $50–70 billion spent in low- and middle-income nations each year on agricultural innovation, less than seven percent goes to climate action initiatives.

The effects of industrial agriculture – PLATFORMS FOR SUSTAINABLE FOOD PRODUCTION

The drive to feed a fast-growing global population at low cost has led to the use of industrial agriculture, referring to “techno scientific, economic, and political methods” and “food systems … largely dependent on fossil fuels for the production of food by way of machinery and mechanization, agrichemicals, transportation, food processing, food packaging, [and] assimilating waste.”11Industrial agriculture uses aggressive farming practices such as the exhaustive application of fertilizers (e.g., superphosphates), herbicides, and pesticides to maximize yields. The use of these chemicals disrupts natural ecosystems so that farmers become dependent on them to maintain maximum yield. Moreover, these chemicals can seep into water supplies and strip away naturally occurring elements in the ground.

Another common practice is tilling. Farmers use tillage to aerate the soil, prepare seedbeds, and suppress weeds, to name a few reasons. However, over time, tilling degrades soil quality, erodes soil further, and damages soil structure. Also, as people consume more processed food, they create a higher demand for a limited range of crops resulting in monocultural farming practices. The global food system relies on only 12 plants and five animal species to supply 75 percent of the world’s food; such reliance makes this supply highly vulnerable when shortages or disasters occur.12 Therefore, we must prioritize biodiversity to keep many climate-resilient, heritage varieties and breeds alive. According to the UN Environment Programme, the estimated toll of industrialized agriculture on the environment each year is $3 trillion.

Dimitra Agriculture Awarded Technology Contract. Dimitra Incorporated has been awarded a contract from the OBC Indian Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture.

The OBC Indian Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture is a not for profit established with the goal of enhancing farm productivity by regenerative farming with Agri-processing of Agri commodities, the conservation of biodiversity within a sustainable development frame work in India.

Dimitra Incorporated is a global technology company that provides an eco system of agricultural technology products. Aimed at advancing small holder farming performance. Through the use of mobile technology, IoT sensors, AI, block chain, satellite imagery and drones.

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This contract will focus on enhancing farming productivity while doubling farmers income through the application of digital technology. And regenerative farming methods in crop and live stock farming.

Jon Trask, Dimitra’s CEO says “We are excited to work with Dr. Pradeep Kagane and his team to collect data through a combination of mobile, sensor and satellite technology and then analyze the data with machine learning to quantify soil organic content across an area of 1.3 million farms.” Once the assessment phase is under way the teams will work on developing and implementing sustainable strategies. And actions to remediate the soil and transition farms to leading soil management practices.

Dr. Pradeep Kagane, GREAT-VET, National Technical Advisor says “Dimitra is the right combination of emerging technologies like satellite, AI, Blockchain, and DNA analytics to support small farmers across India. Our farmers will greatly benefit from Dimitra’s technology innovation.”

Dimitra Incorporated currently provides services in 47 countries, for more information please contact Jon Trask.