Blockchain technology has long been a part of the revolution in global supply chain management and the agricultural business. However, as the world continues to face the adverse effects of global warming and the increasing need to change how companies approach natural resources. This technology has an even larger role to play in battling deforestation.

Deforestation is one of the main contributing factors to the rapid increase in the net global temperature. Forests make up an essential part of the flora and biological diversity of the planet. And as industrialization and urbanization set in, deforestation is becoming an evident problem.

Blockchain technology and AgTech can play a significant role in helping slow down the rates of deforestation globally. What’s more, companies and businesses are starting to take notice. And more entrepreneurs are utilizing this type of technology at the very core of their operations.

Sustainable supply chains with added security

AgTech helps fight deforestation by supporting the development of sustainable supply chains. Through blockchain technology, AgTech can help business owners and farmers trace the origin of agricultural products, ensuring that they are produced using sustainable practices.

Importantly, AgTech can help boost sustainability across the supply chain through the use of precision agriculture tools. Such as sensor networks, drones and precision planting equipment. These tools can help farmers better understand their land’s conditions and make more informed decisions about planting, irrigation and other aspects of farming. This can lead to increased crop yields and lower production costs which, in turn. Can reduce the need to clear new land for farming, and ultimately reduce the environmental impact of the agriculture sector.

What’s more, as refinements come to the blockchain tech sector, AgTech products are also becoming more advanced. AgTech pioneer Dimitra, a global leader in blockchain integrations in the agricultural industry, is using artificial intelligence, satellite imaging and mobile technology. To help boost sustainability and increase transparency across supply chain management.

AgTech tools can also aid in implementing sustainable farming practices like crop rotation, cover cropping and agroforestry. In turn, these techniques can improve soil health, reduce erosion and increase the overall resilience of land.

This is just one example of how Web3 tools can help to reduce the demand for products. Created through deforestation and promote the use of sustainable products. Not only that, but AgTech also offers traceability solutions that can help companies prove the origin. And end destination of their products in compliance with various local regulations.

Regulation and compliance – Battling deforestation

The European Union aims to lead the way in terms of regulation and compliance requirements for businesses and producers looking to help combat deforestation. The union’s regulatory body introduced rules requiring importers to provide documentation ensuring that goods brought to the local market are obtained sustainably and in compliance with deforestation regulations.

These regulations mean that the EU is banning the trade of products linked to deforestation worldwide and helping to combat the effects of climate change. Traders and operators have 18 months to adjust to the new regulations. While smaller companies will have two years to adapt. Still, all businesses will have to prove that the products do not originate on land deforested after Dec. 31, 2020. Operators must provide satellite evidence demonstrating that the origin farms have not been involved in deforestation as well as GPS evidence of the source of the products, operators will need to verify that their production also complies with the local laws of the producing country.

This is another sphere where blockchain technology and AgTech can play a pivotal role. As more and more companies are turning to distributed ledgers to improve their supply chains, the tracking and monitoring of all materials used throughout production have also become more transparent.

Moreover, Web3 companies are joining in the effort to limit deforestation. Building on its supply chain management tools, Dimitra has created a blockchain-based Deforestation Certification Module as an upgrade to its Connected Farmer and Livestock Guru platforms. This module makes deforestation assessments and confirms compliance for producers, traders, consumer goods firms and regulators based on data stored on the blockchain.

Fighting for a better future

While AgTech is still a relatively new sector and only a few agricultural companies have adopted blockchain-based solutions. This technology has a lot of potential to bring sustainability into the industry.

Companies like Dimitra are actively working toward bringing easy-to-use and accessible AgTech solutions that can be implemented into businesses of all sizes — from the smallest farm to the most significant agricultural conglomerate.

The fight against climate change is one of the ultimate challenges facing the human race at the moment, and blockchain-based solutions might just be the saving grace when it comes to factors like deforestation.

According to the recent Consumer Price Index report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, food prices have risen 10.9% from October 2021 to October 2022 in the U.S. alone. It’s a global issue. Some countries have even seen record numbers of food inflations costs like Argentina with 91 percent, Turkey with an astonishing 103 percent and Ghana with 48 percent. The farming, production, processing, and retail of food supplies everywhere have been disturbed.

Several factors contribute to rising food costs:

• Changes in demand
• Increase in transportation and energy costs
• Climate and weather challenges
• International conflicts
• Disease outbreaks
• Supply chain disruptions

Right now, the world is facing many of these factors, including war, natural disasters, and recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, food prices around the world have skyrocketed.

4 Major Sources of Rising Food Costs

There are several identifiable reasons food costs have risen and continue to rise worldwide.

Aftershocks of the Pandemic

The pandemic caused disruptions in the food supply chain: outbreaks in processing centers, facility closures, and mandated lockdowns put a strain on food production at large. Access to livestock feed also diminished and the ongoing labor shortage throughout meat and dairy farms led to a decrease in these household staples.

Wars and Conflicts

In 2022, the War in Ukraine impacted the prices of wheat and other essential commodities. Western sanctions placed on Russia have led to not only higher oil and transport costs, but a further shortage of fertilizers that farmers need.

Supply Chain and Transportation

Food transportation across industries such as meat, produce, dairy, and coffee has left not only consumers to deal with unfavorable prices but farmers and processing companies as well.

With challenges in transportation and supply, more food is going to waste before it’s able to reach store shelves. Higher rates of food waste contribute to rising costs, as certain items become rarer and, therefore, more costly to sell.

Climate Change

Climate change is a final leading factor contributing to the rise in food costs. Although this may be invisible to buyers, resource depletion is a serious concern. Recent natural disasters such as the floods in Pakistan and one of the worst European droughts in 500 years. Significantly limited the production of commercial crops, including rice, sugarcane, grain, and soy.

Impacts of Food Scarcity on Daily Life

Rising food costs have resulted in food scarcity for families across occupational and class lines.

More than 800 million people end each day hungry.

Household hunger and malnutrition take hold in developing countries, impacting economic and social development.

Farmers’ incomes become threatened as there are fewer buyers purchasing goods directly from crop growers. Smallholder farms are further impacted around the global supply chain, as loyal traders search elsewhere for cheaper alternatives.

Shoppers are now faced with the difficult decision to change their food-buying habits.

A family of four who might have sustained themselves on fresh organic produce, fair-trade spices, and local dairy now may have to choose to buy conventional in order to maintain their grocery budget.

Lower-income families that may have opted for fresh produce a couple of days a week may now feel pressured to purchase more affordable but less nutritious alternatives such as canned vegetables or instant meals.

For those without a secure income, skipping meals and going hungry may seem like the only choice.

Farming Solutions that Address the Food Supply Chain

In an attempt to relieve global trade pressures, several governments in developed countries have put measures in place to increase domestic food production. Export bans, price controls, and food taxes also present difficult considerations in the market.

In response to rising food prices, investing in agriculture — both locally and abroad — is crucial.

Without productive farmers, a society risks major food insecurity, no matter what its current geopolitical or economic standing is.

Data-driven trade improvements are another way to alleviate high costs. Moreover, to improve trade, agricultural productivity must be met with timely research, farming development, and rural infrastructure.

Reducing global dependence on fertilizers and pesticides is another solution that will help bring food prices down while ensuring greater food security.

With specialty agricultural technologies (AgTech), fertilizer and pesticide applications can be closely monitored and controlled, making sure exact amounts of spray are properly applied to precise areas of a crop.

How Dimitra is Addressing Rising Food Costs

At Dimitra Technology, we already help farmers and exporters practice responsible and sustainable, data-driven farming.

With our tech-based platform, farmers around the world can increase crop yields, reduce operational costs, and mitigate risk from season to season. All of this is achievable even during a time of record-breaking food prices and environmental challenges.

We are committed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of advancing toward zero world hunger.

Dimitra and our team of global agricultural experts combine science and technology to support farmers everywhere.

From strategies that reduce food waste to software that maps sustainable food production, the Connected Farmer platform which has advanced Internet of Things (IoT) capabilities equips farmers with the tools they need to succeed beyond spikes in the food market.

We must solve deforestation to combat global warming.

Agricultural expansion contributes to almost 90 percent of global deforestation.

The EU is banning the importation of the following products when they are linked to deforestation: Palm oil, cattle, soy, coffee, cocoa, timber, rubber, beef, paper, chocolate, and furniture.

So what does this mean? Consumer goods companies, movers, and farmers need to certify their compliance with these new laws to continue to trade into the EU.

Dimitra offers a Deforestation Certification Module making deforestation assessment accessible to companies proving their compliance with the new regulations.

Using satellite and machine learning, the platform detects whether or not a plot of land deforested. And generates a certificate of compliance written to the block chain.

GPS Track and trace is required to prove compliance with the new EU regulations by being able to show that the product was registered and came directly from the farm.

Contact Dimitra today to assess the impact on your business, plan for these changes and secure your supply chain.

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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. Through our data driven approach, Dimitra helps farmers increase yields, reduces expenses, and mitigates risk. Dimitra believes that every small holder farmer, regardless of standing, should benefit from simple, beautiful, and useful technology.

Hello everyone,

I’d first like to thank the Dimitra community and all our investors for their support during 2022. As the saying goes, “This too shall pass,” and 2022’s macro crypto conditions have been particularly challenging, with some very bad actors causing a lot of pain for the broader crypto industry. 2023 may be the year when regulatory frameworks finally manifest.

I’d like to extend a heartfelt thank you to our exchange partners, our esteemed extended network of partners, our internal teams: Marketing, Technology, Sales, Agronomists, Data Science, Dimitra Ambassadors, and all our external contractors. Without everyone’s hard work, we could not have accomplished so much in a short amount of time. We are much closer to helping larger numbers of farmers worldwide, improving sustainability, and addressing food insecurity. It’s important to zoom out and see what we’ve accomplished and not forget what the end goal is.

Since our community has asked, the Dimitra team is based around the world in 70 countries and is 125 strong. We have about 50 developers working at any one time and these numbers increase or decrease depending on client deliverables. Great platforms and solutions take time to build and implement. I sit in our weekly technology update meetings, and I’m always amazed at how many “commits” get accomplished week by week and how that is never ending, as well as all the Q&A and testing.

Some of Dimitra’s Accomplishments in 2022

Dimitra won the W3B & Blockchain World 2022 Entrepreneurship Award in the Industry Solutions Category. This award recognizes start up companies delivering innovative block chain applications, protocols, or platforms that address block chain implementation challenges in business, government, and nonprofit contexts. They shortlisted projects from all over the world as finalists and then selected Dimitra as the winner.

Linked here are the article and the press release.

VC Funding

Dimitra received a $20 million capital commitment from GEM DIGITAL LIMITED to develop Dimitra’s platform further, increase user adoption and expand the utility of our ecosystem. Considering most funding dried up in 2022, this was a major feather in our cap and vote of confidence in what we are doing. If you’d like to read more about this, please go here: Dimitra Secures $20M ‘Capital Commitment’ From GEM DIGITAL

New Partnerships and Contracts: We’re up to 16 nations!

Exchange News

Dimitra has been listed with 5 of the world’s top crypto exchanges:

Our latest exchange partner is Bittrex International.

As for the future, we’ll add more exchange partners as market conditions are appropriate.

Other Crypto Partnerships:

Dimitra partnered with Ocean Protocol and launched our first Data Bounty program with Ocean Protocol and awarded the winners. Next year, we intend to push forward with more data initiative programs and bounties.

Dimitra is working with GEC, the Xi Protocol, to deliver satellite nodes to its global clientele to aid microclimate weather conditions affecting farm performance. Find out more about this partnership in the announcement linked here.

Dimitra is excited that we’ve signed a media partnership with Cointelegraph to help get our message out to more communities across the world. You can read our first article linked here.

Technical Achievements and more

Dimitra has built three platforms that are live. The platform’s combines block chain, track and trace, AI + ML, satellite, sensors, and more.

Looking forward to 2023:

We’ll be providing a tokenomics update, feature articles on Cointelegraph, launching our Dimitra marketplace, and our Farmer Points program. We’ll also be launching our Sponsor a Farmer program, CEdefi loan, Defi insurance programs, and launching a deforestation satellite solution.

Conclusion

Venture capital investors pumped $51.7 billion into agritech businesses in 2021, an 85% increase over 2020. Top of mind for investors and communities across the planet

is how to feed the planet more sustainably with agronomic best practices. Dimitra, in partnership with farmers and supported by our token holders, is on a mission to improve data-driven decisions. Join the community today!

Stay safe and enjoy the rest of the holiday season with family and friends.

All the best,

Mike Meurin

Chief Digital Currency Officer @ Dimitra

Deforestation affects everyone in the world. It is responsible for approximately 10 percent of global warming. Without trying to combat deforestation, it is impossible to combat global warming. EU Deforestation Regulation and Compliance is working to make the world a better place.

Deforestation is the purposeful clearing of forested land, and industrial agriculture accounts for a colossal 85 percent of deforestation worldwide.

Unsustainable farming methods

An example of this is slash-and-burn agriculture. It occurs when a farmer burns down trees on their land, allowing the ash to fertilize the land for crops. Although this may be sustainable for the farmers for a short period. They have to repeat it as the soil only remains fertile for a couple of years. It is not a sustainable farming method for the planet in the long run. It causes long-term harm to the environment.

When trees are cleared to make room for farming practices like logging, oil palm, rubber tree plantations, and cattle ranching, the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere increases. Trees play a vital role in the atmosphere. They take in carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, which is in their wood. Farmers burn the trees, and this releases carbon dioxide into the air. As the number of trees continues to decline. An increasing amount of greenhouse gas collects in the atmosphere, accelerating global warming.

In addition to the environmental repercussions listed above. Deforestation threatens biodiversity and leaves soil more prone to erosion and forest fires.

Enforcing sustainable farming methods

The United Nations and the EU are working to limit the trade of products linked to deforestation worldwide to help combat the effects of climate change. The new regulation sets strict mandatory due diligence rules for companies that want to place relevant products on the EU market or export them. Once it becomes law, traders and operators have 18 months to adjust to the regulations, while smaller companies will have two years to adapt.

Operators and traders will have to prove that the products do not originate on land deforested after the 31st of December 2020. In addition to deforestation, operators will need to verify their production complies with the local laws of the producing country.

Evaluating the metrics based on crop-specific criteria, regional or country-specific regulations, as well as EU-specified criteria. When considering the criteria, the metrics set by the EU will be used as the baseline standard, and any other criteria, be it regional, country-specific, or produce-specific, will be taken into account based on the highest of the two standards. If a specific country’s criteria are different or have different components. Measurements from both will be taken into account, and the higher standards will be considered the primary metric.

So what does this mean? 

Farmers around the globe are adjusting their farming practices to adhere to these new environmentally conscious changes. Farmers have to substantiate their farming practices to allow for the export of produce. Otherwise, the importer will face fines of up to four percent of their annual EU turnover.

Besides avoiding deforestation to make way for farmland, planting new trees can make farms more sustainable. Some crops like coffee and cocoa grow very well under the shade of large trees. In addition, fruit-bearing shade trees can provide additional income for farmers. However, reducing deforestation doesn’t start and end with the farmers. Influential commodity trading companies are crucial to reducing farmers’ pressure to produce more.

The future of farming

Dimitra offers a Deforestation Certification Module as an upgrade to its Connected Farmer and Livestock Guru platforms making deforestation evaluation accessible to combat the climate crisis. The deforestation module makes it possible for producers and traders to prove their goods are unrelated to deforestation. It also helps regulatory authorities confirm compliance. GPS Track and trace is required to prove compliance with the new EU regulations by being able to show that the product is registered and comes directly from the farm.

Origin farms are defined by a geo-fence so that the system can continuously monitor land use via satellite. When products are being verified, the regulatory authority can trace the product back to its origin farm and assess if any trees were lost to make way for planting crops. Users also can create a year-over-year user-generated report based on data from their designated geofence inputs for an additional fee.

So, who can benefit from adopting this technology? This technology can impact any party within the agricultural chain. For example, farmers and cooperatives can consolidate the information on their farms, and governments can provide better compliance and standardized assessment for the buyers and producers of affected products. All of this data is written to an enterprise grade blockchain to provide transparency and take advantage of blockchain’s security and immutable ledger.

Dimitra also adds other values of importance to the EU, including the responsible use of pesticides, soils, and water, and respect for humans, including labor rights.

Striving for a greener future

With Dimitra’s ability to fully automate the capture of deforestation, calculating the loss and coverage with year-over-year reporting, farmers, cooperatives, and governments can improve the accuracy of their information while helping to combat deforestation while trying to make an impact on climate change. Working towards this goal is essential to improve the state of the environment globally. In fact, it is estimated by the assessment from the European Commission that at least 71,920 hectares (278 sq miles) of forest annually — (around 100,000 football pitches) will be protected with this law. As a result, global carbon emissions are also estimated to drop by 31.9 million.

Read more here: https://dimitratech.medium.com/eu-deforestation-regulation-and-compliance-dbb3ea22b5c9

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The agricultural industry went through a major metamorphosis during the industrial revolution, and it might be set for another groundbreaking evolutionary stage now with sustainability in agriculture. With the rise of blockchain technology, the farming and agricultural sectors are witnessing a lot of innovation, improvements, and improved sustainability in agriculture.

According to the founders of AgTech company Dimitra. The opportunities for the agricultural sector to benefit from blockchain-based tech are endless. Find out more about the future of AgTech in the latest Cointelegraph Interview below.

Agriculture and technology merge

Q: Is the adoption of blockchain technology becoming more widespread across the agricultural industry? What are the main challenges for small farmers and agricultural companies to incorporate this technology?

The adoption of blockchain technology is growing within the AgTech sector; the spread of mobile devices has made farming applications accessible to farmers globally. Earlier in developing nations, few farmers had laptops or computers. Mobile device penetration in rural areas lagged in developing countries.

Early applications were basic and didn’t work well offline, which is a necessity in agriculture. They also only offered a few features requiring farmers to buy several applications, which was a significant deterrent.

Initially, mobile-based systems were distributed in North America and Europe. Farmers in developing nations have struggled with expensive Agtech applications and their licensing costs.

Q: What is AgFi? What are the key aspects of this nascent space, and how can AgFi help farmers?

AgFi is digitizing the farming value chain from crop to end consumer and combining agronomic sciences, environmental sciences, blockchain, remote sensing, IoT sensing, and machine learning with AI algorithms.

AgFi helps farmers make data-driven decisions and connects their farming operations to their financing and insurance activities, providing them with a complete enterprise-based system.

Q: Both crypto and the agricultural industry have been blamed to be dangerous to the environment. Is there a way to offset the negative effects by combining the strengths of both of these industries?

Historically farming has focused on productivity without consideration for environmental effects. In the past decade, Ag sciences have improved and developed new techniques to make farming sustainable. Converting the world’s farmers requires training. Blockchain-based systems can help measure carbon performance and advise farmers on techniques that optimize their carbon performance while maintaining productivity.

Dimitra believes that educating farmers via our platform is key to addressing these issues. We reward them with points and DMTR tokens by following best practices, helping the planet and the farmer (through monetization of their data) at the same time.

AgTech is for farmers and investors alike

Q: What is the other side of the coin, how can blockchain tech help investors get into the farming and agricultural industry?

There is a perfect convergence of demand, growth, and regulatory pressure that will drive blockchain-based adoption in agriculture. Investors need to consider these market factors as well as perform specific research into the companies operating in the space. The AgTech and AgFi sectors are ripe for innovation, with digitization growth rampant on a global scale.

Agriculture itself is a 12.5 trillion USD industry growing at a compound annual growth rate of 11.1%. The food sector is an 8.77 trillion dollar industry and is forecasted to reach 11 trillion USD by 2027.

Q: What is Dimitra’s target audience? Are you looking to help farmers or investors, or does your company offer solutions for both?

Dimitra’s target audience is farmers and investors.

Investors who want to support the global food and agriculture industry while making an impact on the environment, global poverty, and the ability to benefit from the volume, revenue, and price growth of one of the world’s largest industry verticals.

Farmers who want access to digital analytics of their farm to help make better decisions; access to capital for inputs and trade financing; access to insurance designed for small farmers to mitigate weather, climate, and pest risks.

Q: What is the DMTR token, and how does it work to bring utility to both farmers and investors?

The DMTR token is an ERC 20 token. Farmers can pay for their licenses of the Dimitra Connected Farmer or Livestock Guru with DMTR tokens. Users of the platforms will have the ability to buy and sell goods within the Dimitra marketplace through the use of the DMTR token. Users can also stake their tokens via the DMTR portal. Farmers’ crops or livestock can use track and trace from seed via the entire supply chain.

Farmers download our application on their mobile phones, geofence their farms, and then start communicating with the platform. As they communicate with the platform, they receive Dimitra points. Then once they get to a certain level, they can offramp from the DMTR points to DMTR tokens, other cryptos, and local fiat currencies and buy goods like sensors in the DMTR marketplace or sell their goods.

Other utility functions within Dimitra include data and analytics, input loans, trade finance, crop insurance, carbon credits, logistics, track and trace, and token burn initiatives. sustainability in agriculture

Q: What do you think the future holds for AgFi and the industry as a whole?

The opportunities for AgFi products are endless if approached correctly. It may be the largest underserved industry segment in the world and within the blockchain world. There are new financing opportunities, new insurance opportunities, growing demand for provenance, track and trace, the incredible demand for data, and increased focus on decarbonization, freshwater conservation, soil biodiversity, soil loss, sustainable and precision farming, food waste reduction, food safety, and security.

It is an exciting new opportunity that makes a real difference in many UN Sustainability objectives. Environment, world hunger, poverty, and many more. sustainability in agriculture

Dimitra Community AMA Summary: August 11th, 2022

BELIZE CITY, BELIZE — Dimitra Incorporated, a global Agtech company on a mission to make its technology available to farmers globally, is working with Ceres Agrointeligencia in the Brazilian agriculture market. This Brazilian organization specializes in providing services and technological solutions for agribusiness. Dimitra and Ceres Agrointeligencia are exploring the Brazilian agricultural market, starting with the southern region of Brazil.

The south of Brazil is a leading agricultural producer in Brazil. It is responsible for 70% of the wheat and soybeans, 65% of the grapes, and 50% of the corn and rice produced. As well as cotton, sugarcane, oranges, and coffee production. Specifically, the first region Dimitra and Ceres Agrointeligencia are focusing on is Paraná, which is of more than 400,000 farms. It has dozens of cooperatives, some of which are the world’s largest.

Brazilian agriculture market

Ceres and Dimitra have been approved for the Inova Invest program within the Brazilian agriculture market. This program explores tools and technological solutions that help advance trade and traceability for trade export companies, international buyers, and national and foreign investors.

Invest Paraná, a company created to support local companies and new investments, is promoting the Inova Invest Program. Invest Paraná acts as a bridge between the government and private sectors, helping to collect data, provide information and make strategic decisions.

Building a Strong Ecosystem

With Invest Paraná and the Inova Invest Program, Dimitra and Ceres will build a strong ecosystem, allowing them to offer several services to farmers and agricultural institutions. In addition to the Connected Farmer app. It will help the farmers to produce more, services and market reports will be offered to companies and cooperatives.

Despite Paraná being a state with large, high tech farmers, tens of thousands still struggle to make ends meet. One of the first objectives of these organizations working together is to find a way to support projects that are strengthening these small farmers and regional agricultural products. These organizations will help these farmers by sharing knowledge and allowing farmers to offer traceability on their products.

Dimitra Technology is the winner of the W3B & Blockchain World 2022 Entrepreneurship Award in the Industry Solutions Category. This award recognizes start up companies or technology projects. These projects deliver block chain applications, protocols, or platforms that address block chain implementation challenges to business and governments.

Formerly known as the Enterprise Blockchain Awards. The Web3 & Block chain Transformation Awards (W3B Awards) recognize the exceptional leaders, researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and service providers driving global block chain transformation. The awards honor those that have made a measurable difference within their ecosystems and across industries.

This year we received a record breaking number of submissions. These represent a diverse and international community of block chain researchers, leaders, innovators, builders, and service providers. After careful deliberation, the W3B Awards judging panel has shortlisted 35 finalists in eleven award categories.

Winners announced at the W3B Awards Gala in Toronto on November 8, 2022.

“We are excited to share that Dimitra Incorporated is the winner of the W3B & Blockchain World 2022 Entrepreneurship Award in the Industry Solutions Category! Such amazing recognition for our team and community. Special thanks to Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott and the Blockchain Research Institute and MCI teams for putting on a world class event. Thank you to all of the Dimitra Technology team members. We could not have done it without you!” – Jon Trask

Dimitra’s platforms consist of Connected Farmer, Dimitra Livestock Guru and Connected Coffee. The platforms utilize block chain technology, incorporating mobile technology, machine learning, Internet of Things devices, satellite and drone imagery, genomics, and advanced farming research. Dimitra’s data driven approach helps farmers increase yield, reduce expenses and mitigate risk.

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Dimitra is a global AgTech company with a mission to help farmers across the world. Dimitra works with governments, farming cooperatives, agricultural corporations, NGOs, and for-profit organizations. Dimitra’s platforms are built on blockchain technology and incorporate mobile technology, machine learning, IoT devices, satellite and drone imagery, genomics, and advanced farming research. Dimitra’s data-driven approach helps farmers increase yield, reduce expenses, and mitigate risk. Dimitra believes that every smallholder farmer should benefit from simple, beautiful, and useful technology regardless of economic standing. Here is the Dimitra AMA Summary with Kucoin.

Guest Introduction: Jon Trask (CEO Dimitra)

Jon Trask: Personally, I am a globally recognized blockchain expert with extensive experience in cryptography and cryptographic systems, enterprise software development, and designing and implementing complex supply chain applications for multinational corporations.

I am passionate about using the power of information to deliver agricultural technology (Agtech) to small farm holders. Who, while playing a vital role in keeping our world fed, often struggle to feed their own families.

My goal is to get elegant, useful technology into the hands of farms and farmers who need it most. Food security, food safety, agronomy, the climate impact of agriculture, poverty, and world hunger are key issues that are important to me personally.

Q&A from Dimitra AMA Summary x KuCoin

Q: What is the most ambitious goal of your project?

Jon Trask: Great question! The most ambitious goal of the project is to deploy our technology to 100 million farms. If we achieve this, we’ll help feed a lot of people and inevitably change their lives for the better. We’ll also make a significant contribution to manage climate change and improve soil health.

Imagine how many people will transact with our Dimitra token through our ecosystem.

Q: What can we expect from Dimitra and its team in 2023? Do you have a roadmap?

Jon Trask: Yes! As some of our country deals or details of deals under NDA, we can’t always share everything, but we do our best to be as detailed as possible.

Our linktree is the best source of information for everything related to Dimitra: https://linktr.ee/dimitratech

Over the next four months, we are releasing:

Livestock Guru Cloud- November 2022

Marketplace — December 2022

Advanced satellite with 15 additional reports to the existing five reports — October 2022

Farmer points program — November 2022

A farm activity scheduling and calendar tool — December 2022

Another ten crops — we add new crops monthly

Additional languages — Greek, Mandarin, and Turkish — done. We are now at 18 languages

Livestock Guru — Dairy Management — Q1 2023

Livestock Guru — Feed management — Q4 2022

We are also starting on an iOS version of Connected Farmer for launch next year

Q: We heard you had just won an award, please expand on that.

Jon Trask:We are excited to share that Dimitra Technology is the winner of the W3B & Blockchain World 2022 Entrepreneurship Award in the Industry Solutions Category!

This award recognizes start-up companies or technology projects delivering innovative blockchain applications, protocols, or platforms that address blockchain implementation challenges to business, government, and nonprofit contexts. They shortlisted projects from all over the world as finalists and then selected Dimitra as the winner.

We are appreciative of the amazing recognition for our team & community. Special thanks to all of the Dimitra Technology team members representing from afar. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Q: How important is the community for the team, and what steps will be taken by the team to keep the interest of the community & investors intact?

Jon Trask: Community is everything to Dimitra, starting from our internal team and extending to all the farmers we work with who use our platform and our loyal DMTR token holders.

We wouldn’t be here without the community’s support, and our ethos is a community-first approach. Dimitra always listens to our community’s feedback, and we’ll keep updating the community on our latest news.

Q: Do you have any exciting news you want to share with the community?

Jon Trask: We are proud to announce a $20 million capital commitment by GEM DIGITAL LIMITED to develop Dimitra’s platform further, increase user adoption and expand the utility of the ecosystem. Dimitra Secures $20M ‘Capital Commitment’ From GEM DIGITAL

We recently signed an agreement with the Uniagraria University of Colombia. Dimitra and Uniagraria will teach smallholder farmers how to use digital technologies to increase their yield, reduce expenses, and mitigate risk. This is another great university helping spread technology to farmers globally.

We also have some new things coming up soon, so be sure to check our social media and keep an eye out for new updates!

Ask Community Question

Q: Could you tell us about your security strategies, audits and every measure that might protect your users funds and protect their privacy?

Jon Trask: We have been audited by Certik and take security measures across our applications and portal. We have validation steps that enhance our security to minimize risk. We have an active development team and take thrid-party advice from leading cloud security teams.

Q: Partnership and collaborations are the backbones of making every project more widespread. Can you list some of your partners with us?

Jon Trask: We have amazing partners, Ocean Protocol, Morpheus Network, Blockchain Research Institute and many others, please follow the link https://dimitra.io/about-us/#partners

Q: As a newcomer to crypto, I have always faced difficulties in navigating through the UI of many platforms. And these clumsy UI have always been difficult for newbies. So,is the #DIMITRA Platform user friendly platform & ensure a hassle free & clean interface for users?

Jon Trask: Yes, we spend a lot of time working on the UI of our platform and take feedback from our users to make improvements. UX is important, particularly with farmers who need to have simple and efficient ways to enter their data

Q: Recently due to the solvency risk of FTX has created a huge negative impact of crypto currency and led to crash, Is your project impacted by this?

Jon Trask: We do not have a direct impact due to the FTX problems. Certainly it is creating challenges in the market with price and market credibility. We are a project with real-world application and revenue in the agriculture and food markets and that creates advantages for us that many projects don’t yet have.

Q: Do you have any plans to integrate farmers into your system, given that your ecosystem is devoted to the agricultural sector?

Jon Trask: We already have farmers integrated into our system. We have been onboarding cooperatives and governments for several months now and are going to continue to expand the number of customers monthly.

End of Dimitra AMA Summary

Dimitra Technology is the winner of the W3B & Blockchain World 2022 Entrepreneurship Award in the Industry Solutions Category. This award recognizes start up companies or technology projects. These projects deliver block chain applications, protocols, or platforms that address block chain implementation challenges to business and governments.

Formerly known as the Enterprise Blockchain Awards. The Web3 & Blockchain Transformation Awards (W3B Awards) recognize the exceptional leaders, researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, and service providers driving global block chain transformation. The awards honor those that have made a measurable difference within their ecosystems and across industries.

This year we received a record breaking number of submissions. These represent a diverse and international community of block chain researchers, leaders, innovators, builders, and service providers. After careful deliberation, the W3B Awards judging panel has short listed 35 finalists in eleven award categories.

Winners announced at the W3B Awards Gala in Toronto on November 8, 2022.

“We are excited to share that Dimitra Incorporated is the winner of the W3B & Blockchain World 2022 Entrepreneurship Award in the Industry Solutions Category! Such amazing recognition for our team and community. Special thanks to Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott and the Blockchain Research Institute and MCI teams for putting on a world class event. Thank you to all of the Dimitra Technology team members. We could not have done it without you!” – Jon Trask

Dimitra’s platforms consist of Connected Farmer, Dimitra Livestock Guru and Connected Coffee. The platforms utilize block chain technology, incorporating mobile technology, machine learning, Internet of Things devices, satellite and drone imagery, genomics, and advanced farming research. Dimitra’s data driven approach helps farmers increase yield, reduce expenses and mitigate risk.