Dimitra has partnered with Ocean Protocol to help develop the next generation of agricultural solutions using data from the Connected Farmer Mobile Application. At its core is the simple idea to incentivize farmers to collect data. And then use that data to refine and advance agricultural technology.

If you know about the powerful mission behind Dimitra and DMTR, then you already know that helping smallholder farmers reach success through technology is at the core of the project. The partnership with Ocean Protocol’s powerful decentralized data exchange platform is another piece of the larger ecosystem.

Let’s take a quick look at how Dimitra handles data in the ecosystem, what role Ocean Protocol plays, and how the joint Data Bounty between the two companies is putting the power of global change in the hands of the world’s top data scientists and organizations.

How it All Works

Most people are fully aware of the power of data. It helps us train machine learning (ML) models and refine artificial intelligence (AI) systems. In turn, these advanced systems help us predict, adapt, and change using data-driven insights.

While these profound advancements in how we approach technology have become a familiar face in the last decade. The reach of this kind of tech is far from expansive. For the millions of smallholder farmers across the world, the idea of implementing systems based on AI insights is closer to science fiction than everyday reality.

Dimitra and Ocean Protocol are here to change that. Dimitra provides a rich set of open source agricultural datasets — including soil datasets, weather/environment datasets, and satellite vegetation indices datasets. Using the Connected Farmer app, farmers can:

• Get access to precision farming technologies through the mobile app — all on their smartphone or other device.
• Earn rewards in DMTR for their activity on the app.
• Exchange DMTR for access to the latest agriculture technologies (satellites, drones, sensors, etc.)

Moreover, these farmers will also have access to satellite data, weather data, and much more. These insights will help drive better decision-making for these farmers and help maximize yields.

Currently, only around 20% of crops from smallholder farmers make it to the market. The rest of those crops help feed families and communities. The goal of the smart farming practices is to double the yield of these farms, which aligns with Dimitra’s overall mission to help meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Imagine the impact a doubling of agricultural yield would have on these farmers, their families, and their communities. It’s not just more food; it’s more capital, healthier children, and better opportunities. It all starts and ends with data.

Why are Farmers Incentivized to Add Data?

What is one thing smallholder farmers can offer major ag-tech service and product providers? The answer is data.

Through the Connected Farmer App, farmers can add data points from their farms. We encourage this activity by offering Dimitra Points for their hard work. For every piece of data they enter into the app — cattle data, soil data, etc. — they receive Dimitra Points.

With Dimitra Points, a farmer can:

Swap to DMTR

Buy agriculture-specific services

Use DMTR to swap into another cryptocurrency

Use a local fiat off-ramp

Engage with the Micro Loan Program

By simply adding more advanced record-keeping practices to their everyday work routine, farmers have access to the latest and greatest ag-tech products and services. It’s really that simple.

What Does All This Data Do?

Data is a hot commodity. This data is as good as gold for organizations leveraging ML and AI technology. To help connect anonymous aggregated data sets created through the Connected Farmer Application to the people who need them most, Dimitra has partnered with Ocean Protocol.

Why Ocean Protocol? As the most powerful decentralized data exchange platform and marketplace built on the blockchain, its goals of transparency, security, and safety align with the overall mission of Dimitra.

On the other side of this transaction are the governments, universities, and agribusiness partners who use the anonymous aggregated data generated through the platform. In return, they offer their services and products through the Marketplace. It’s a win-win.

As farmers feed more data into the system, services will improve. As demand grows, the system will incentivize farmers to earn or buy more tokens to access advanced services. All of this plays into the overall supply and demand mechanics of DMTR — increasing value for farmers and everyday token holders.

Who Benefits?

Part of what makes the Dimitra platform so great is its dedication to farmers. The “Farmer First” ethos means every data set sold on the Ocean Marketplace puts revenue into the hands of smallholder farmers.

That doesn’t mean other ecosystem partners are out of the loop. The total revenue breakdown is as follows:

Ocean Protocol/Dimitra: Next Steps

Dimitra’s partnership with Ocean Protocol doesn’t stop at selling data sets. Together, these two blockchain powerhouses incentivize data scientists to act toward global agricultural change by offering a bounty for their powerful insights.

Data Bounty Mechanism

Ocean Protocol partners with agricultural organizations across the world. They provide datasets and work with Ocean Protocol to offer bounty rewards in OCEAN tokens. The competition is all about who can come up with the most profound and impactful insights.

The bounty will stir interest with the 250,000 strong Ocean community, including data scientists worldwide, and they will compete to provide the best data-driven insights based on the data set.

Ocean’s data scientist community will be challenged to get insights relating to the optimal conditions to maximize crops yields. This involves data augmentation techniques to aggregate the various datasets, and the use of time-series, regression, classification and clustering algorithms that enable Ocean’s community to discover valuable patterns and trends in the data that lead to maximizing yields and quality while minimizing risks.

It’s not meant to be a complicated process, at least from the bounty standpoint. This program will hopefully bring in the best and brightest minds in the field of data science and direct their efforts toward solving some of the world’s biggest challenges.

A panel of evaluators from Ocean and Dimitra will independently review and rank submission entries followed by a community vote.

What are the Rewards?

Phase 1:

Data scientists are invited to generate ideas about how data sets presented can be used. Participants may use any of the 9 data sets provided to derive insights or identify correlations between them and provide insights. The ideas should reflect how data models or ideas can be used to discover valuable insights, trends, and how to exploit them in order to maximize and improve crop yields.

Phase 2:

Participants will publish their algorithms that can be used on the Ocean data marketplace using a compute to data feature. The entries should contain well explained use cases and bonus points will be awarded for using algorithms that discover valuable patterns and trends in the data. The goal of phase 2 is to develop reports, analytics, and also to identify, create, and publish algorithms to analyze the data. Bonus points

For more detailed information on the bounty program and phases 1 and 2, please consult the dedicated press announcement here.

While bounty rewards are subject to the data set provider and client, here is a basic overview of what those bounty rewards might look like:

“Changing the world with data requires many great minds focused on unveiling wisdom from the soil beneath our feet. Analysis and innovation are some of the first steps. Together we can change how we feed the world in a sustainable way. Join us in uncovering value from our data to help the world’s farmers”. — Jon Trask

Dimitra’s Connected Coffee Platform provides end-to-end supply chain traceability, product quality management, agronomic performance management, cherry and bean processing. And purchase order and warehouse management functionality to all stakeholders in the Global Coffee Value Chain. This enables growers and cooperatives to meet reporting requirements while collecting critical data to improve their farming and processing operations.

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 is 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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At Dimitra we are on a mission to make our technology available to smallholder farmers globally.  We believe that every smallholder farmer, regardless of economic standing, should benefit from simple, beautiful and useful technology. Because when farmers thrive, entire economies thrive. 

According to the World Bank, agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity and feed a growing world. Growth in the agriculture sector is 2-4 times more effective in raising incomes among the world’s poorest compared to other business sectors. 

Smallholder farmers are rapidly adopting mobile phones and have a new platform to run their business, learn new farming techniques, record their performance, communicate with government ministries and agricultural experts.  Most agricultural software is an expense that they cannot afford. We are on a mission to change agriculture software affordability.

Dimitra is actively working with governments and non governmental organizations to make our “Connected Farmer” platform available to smallholder farmers in developing nations, free of charge.  This platform enables farmers to use advanced technology. Which provides them with actionable data, breaking the cycle of poverty, enriching their economy through increased crop yields and healthier livestock.

BELIZE CITY, BELIZE — Dimitra Incorporated, a global Agtech company on a mission to make its technology available to smallholder farmers globally, assists Form Holding Company, which operates under three branches, to preserve the environment through sustainable development.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and its neighboring countries are witnessing rapid growth in all sectors and economic activities. Most notably in the agricultural industry. This rapid growth is a credit to multiple policy changes in the agricultural sectors and surrounding economies. As a result of these changes. Form Holding Company has established agricultural projects to link together investment branches and attract international trade innovations.

One of Form’s branches is focused on agricultural projects, particularly landscaping. Which undergo service, maintenance, and follow-up work to check up on the growth once a project is completed. In addition, Form works on green spaces such as gardens and local parks. To improve the areas sustainably in compliance with the Saudi 2030 green initiative.

Form is uniting with Dimitra to add another layer of distinctive and qualitative value to their projects. Form is deploying Dimitra’s Connected Farmer platform to utilize the advanced technologies to support past, present, and future projects.

The following modules from Dimitra’s Connected Farmer platform:

My Farm Module

Weather Reports Module

Satellite Imaging Module

Drone Imagery Module

Drone Spraying Module

Sensor Management Module

The Connected Farmer platform will continue to positively impact the proper growth of green spaces. While reducing costs and mitigating risk.

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Dimitra’s Regional Director for MENA, Maged Elmontaser, states, “The purpose of this MOU is to collaborate on improving the green spaces such as gardens, local parks, and landscaping, advancing and directing to maintain the natural reserves in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in a way to comply with the Saudi 2030 green initiative, sponsored by the crown prince H.H Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud and his vision for the Kingdom. Furthermore, the MOU formalizes the alliance between our two corporations, Dimitra Inc and Form General Trading, which is supported by our Technology Partner in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, SmartCity-KSA, represented by the Business Development Manager, Mr. Sameer Al-Draiweesh.”

Dimitra’s Saudi Arabian Sales Partner, Khalid Alouri, says, “Signing such an agreement (MoU) with Saudi companies specializing in agricultural projects, including landscaping and promoting environmental protection and development by adopting the use of modern agricultural techniques, is a valuable opportunity for us to participate in achieving the aspirations of the Kingdom’s vision 2030 and the targets of the Saudi Green Initiative.”

Form Holding Company’s Projects Manager, Mostafa Elgammal, says, “Always and in many cases, it is necessary to look forward to use of modern and advanced technologies, in order to make you unique and distinguished for what you offer in your field of work. Therefore, we always try to activate valuable partnerships. By signing this MOU with Dimitra Inc in order to achieve the desired vision. Which aims to use technologies aimed at maximizing benefit. Raising the level of quality and reducing effort and cost in line with the Kingdom’s vision 2030.”

BELIZE CITY, BELIZE — Dimitra Incorporated, a global agtech company on a mission to make its technology available to smallholder farmers globally, is working with the National Federation of Goat and Sheep Farmers of Colombia (Fedeanco) to improve goat and sheep breeding in Colombia. Dimitra is enhancing the development of technical tools that help raise these animals and their overall genetic improvement.

Sheep and goat production is considered one of the oldest livestock activities in the world. For Colombia, this industry has always been considered a very localized production alternative in the cold areas of the country. However, since wool is a valuable, non-perishable product. And there is production of dairy by-products from goats, these ranches have gained strength over time.

Nonetheless, despite the importance of this market for livestock in several countries. Few companies have invested in the development of innovative products for this sector. That’s why Dimitra and Fedeanco are working together to strengthen sheep and goat farming in Colombia and Latin America.

Fedeanco is leading technical discussions on the main difficulties and needs of the sector. Trying to involve associations from other Latin American countries. In addition, Dimitra is putting its team of experts to identify and develop solutions to help this vital sector.

The mission is to build a unified platform to share knowledge and information between producers from different countries. While simultaneously forming the largest database worldwide on goats and sheep. This aids with the formulation of public policies, the development of sophisticated AI (artificial intelligence). Assisting producers to make the best productive and reproductive decisions while increasing productivity and profitability in the sector.

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The president of Fedeanco, Dr. José Carlos Arregoces Barros, mentions that “With this agreement with Dimitra Technology, I am convinced that our goat producers, for meat and milk, and sheep, for meat and wool, will find new ways to produce not marginally but in a more zootechnical way in order to satisfy domestic demand and generate surpluses for export in a profitable way that serves to build a new social class.”

For Fernando Mahecha Aguilera, Dimitra Sales Partner, “The sheep-cattle sector in Colombia is made up of diverse social classes, but the majority overwhelmingly represent the true rural producer, who has not had the opportunity to involve precision goat-sheep farming. This currently leaves a window of growth opportunities, which will surely improve the quality of life of rural Colombia.”

For Diego Costa, Dimitra’s Director for Latin America, “it is an honor to work with forward thinking associations who have vision. This partnership will not only help with goat and sheep farming’s development in Colombia, but it will use the mobilizing power of Fedeanco and the technological capacity of Dimitra to reach hundreds of thousands of ranchers throughout Latin America.”

At Dimitra, we are always designing something new to empower and equip smallholder farmers. In March 2022, we launched Dimitra Livestock Guru, the most technologically advanced software of its kind that helps farmers and livestock breeders enhance performance and efficiency, leading to increased livestock sector profitability.

While some farms around the world have sophisticated systems for producing the next generation of high-quality cattle, others leave it totally to chance. If farmers can start to understand the factors that affect an animal’s performance and how to better manage their livestock, it reduces cost, reduces negative environmental impact, and directly increases income.

Now, with Dimitra Livestock Guru, governments, large and small farmers around the world could be just a few generations of livestock away from a different future. The platform immediately impacts feed management and value through animal observation, track and trace, and health management.

The Genetics Module – Dimitra Livestock Guru

Livestock management is a make it or break endeavor that directly results in either a predictable improvement or a steady decline in the quality of animals. There are best practices for assessing an animal across its lifecycle that determines a farmer’s best options for breeding. Dimitra’s genetics module was created in close collaboration with leading agricultural industry experts.

Great livestock management, including genetic mapping, reduces the risk of disease and improves productive and reproductive rates. Most farmers simply don’t collect the right information and use that information to make decisions. There are two fields of study that provide data:

Genomics — Providing insight into all genes and their interrelationships. Mapping genomes has been practiced routinely since the early 2000s, and the identification of which genes correspond to which outputs (quality of meat, quantity of milk, etc.) has helped farmers breed with intention.

Genetics — Scrutiny of the function and composition of single genes. This field provides data that helps farmers propagate heritable trait combinations, maximizing the value of livestock.

Statistical analysis of the data gleaned from both fields can inform economic breeding indexes (EBIs), which assess the probability of an animal passing on a single trait. Effective analysis, supported by technology, can provide reliable measurements of additional factors, such as Expected Progeny Differences (EPD) and Expected Breeding value (EBV).

The Dimitra Genetics Module collects the right data on an animal entire lifecycle. Farmers simply input data about each animal. That’s all they have to do. The software then generates precise recommendations for which animals should be bred. What results is the acceleration of the genetic improvement of the herd.

Other positive outcomes of using the platform are that farmers build a body of health records for each animal, identify trends in the herd, and predict issues to avoid poor breeding decisions.

Let’s talk about how this affects beef and dairy cattle farmers.

Why Genes Matter for Beef Cattle

Farms are like a factory, and they’re in the business of making money. As is the case in any factory, the goal is to max efficiency. Many farmers around the world have haphazard practices for how they manage beef cattle. The traits carried by bulls directly support their value in the marketplace. Which means that farmers stand to profit from implementing better practices in genetics tracking and breeding.

For beef cattle, carcass traits are essential to get the best price. After measuring an animal carcass at the slaughterhouse, farmers fill in the questionnaire on the Dimitra platform. The data they receive from that arms them with the knowledge to put a price on the bull and plan for the next generation.

The methods used to determine which traits to use are fairly complex, but the Dimitra platform has made it virtually effortless, leveraging technology to minimize what a farmer has to do to benefit from this basic information.

Why Genes Matter for Dairy Cattle – Dimitra Livestock Guru

For dairy cattle, there are distinctive traits that make for good milk producers as well as predicting the overall health of an animal. Accurately identifying maternal traits will make it easier to predict calving ease. All of the traits that are genetically passed on are identifiable. And if a farmer knows what to look for. They can make strategic decisions to pass on the right traits to the next generation.

There is a complexity to genetic mapping that most farmers may not understand, for instance. Complete dominance versus co-dominance versus recessive traits. If farmers learn to observe the right factors, log them in the system, and make decisions based on the data. Little by little and generation by generation, the herd will improve.

Here’s an illustration:

In a developing country, a farmer may have four cows and one bull. They leave it to fate to let the animals mate. The offspring will be similarly random: one may be skinny, and one may be a low milk producer. Operating in this way creates a huge margin of waste. With our technology, farmers can become methodical in how they reproduce, producing generations of offspring with more valuable or favorable traits. Knowing which animals hold the best genes for producing the next generation is an immense opportunity for farmers within Dimitra Livestock Guru.

Better Production = Better Profitability

Livestock management is a practice which, if refined, could change the lives of farmers around the world. Dimitra Livestock Guru centralizes data, giving farmers an easy tax of recording what they know and observe. And generating recommendations that empower them to make sound decisions.

Dimitra Token Supply

Jon Trask: So by design, the total Dimitra token supply is a billion tokens, and we’re releasing those billion tokens depending on the area of tokenomics, but most of it is released over 10 years or more. If you break down our token supply, we have a reserve set aside, which is about 5% of the tokens. Our reserve would be used for things like DeFi if we wanted to go in that route, or if we were setting up DeFi loans, we need to maintain a reserve for that. We also have 10% of our tokens for an ecosystem fund, and our ecosystem fund essentially drives value through the ecosystem.

You know, we may need to fund a not-for-profit or a small group of farmers to get them onboarded onto the platform. We may need to fund the implementation of some technology, and we may need to fund different partnerships that will drive more users to the platform.

Dimitra Token Supply

The next component is our partners: Unizen. Unizen are strategic advisors for us, and they played a big role in rolling out our crypto strategy and crypto marketing. So, you know, we’re always thankful to them at Unizen for everything that they’ve done. We have about 8% of the tokens reserved for them. We have 17% of our tokens reserved for staking and rewards, bug bounties, things like that over the years. Like we mentioned before, the maximum is about 13% that people can earn. And the number of those tokens, the 17 tokens, will supply more than a decade of rewards. We have an impact fund, which is a fund to make a difference on ESR. Make a difference with charities and not-for-profits, and onboard those people really in need, to the system.

Dimitra Token Supply

There’s a lot of farmers in the world, over 600 million farmers. Many of them are in some of the most poor nations or poor areas of the world. And they have challenges accessing technology. The interesting thing is a lot of them have a cell phone. So we use these, among other methods to onboard farmers to the platform who maybe wouldn’t jump onto a platform themselves. We sold about 1.3% of the tokens, 13 million tokens, in our presale.

And there’s about 20% of the tokens that are held for founders, advisors, team members, partner organizations who provide services to the company. So we do have a chart that’s available and you can access that chart on our website. Again, go to dimitra.io/token. And currently our circulating supply is over 50 million. And you can watch that on CoinGecko, probably the most reliable information for us on token supply.

Michael Whitlatch: Yeah, fair enough. And John, people had previously mentioned about the Dimitra foundation owning the majority of the tokens. But it isn’t like it’s just a giant pot of tokens you can do whatever you want with. As you said, they’re allocated to specific resources over time, correct?

Jon Trask: Absolutely. Yeah. So we do have our release plan, and all of these aren’t sitting there in my name. They all play a strategic role in the company over the next decade, and fitting together with driving more users to the platform, which again, drives overall value and drives the value of tokenomics.

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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 is 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.

At Dimitra we are on a mission to make our technology available to smallholder farmers globally.  We believe that every smallholder farmer, regardless of economic standing, should benefit from simple, beautiful and useful technology. Because when farmers thrive, entire economies thrive. 

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According to the World Bank, agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity and feed a growing world. Growth in the agriculture sector is 2-4 times more effective in raising incomes among the world’s poorest compared to other business sectors. 

Smallholder farmers are rapidly adopting mobile phones and have a new platform to run their business, learn new farming techniques, record their performance, communicate with government ministries and agricultural experts.  Most agricultural software is an expense that they cannot afford. We are on a mission to change agriculture software affordability.

Dimitra is actively working with governments and non governmental organizations to make our “Connected Farmer” platform available to smallholder farmers in developing nations, free of charge.  This platform enables farmers to  use advanced technology which provides them with actionable data, breaking the cycle of poverty, enriching their economy through increased crop yields and healthier livestock.

Michael Whitlatch: Can you give me a walk-through of the token ecosystem in terms of utility?

Jon Trask: Yeah, that’s a great question, Michael. So, you know, let’s start with the token. Last September 22nd, in 2021, we launched the token online and our first exchange was KuCoin. It’s an ERC 20 based token, and a utility token. Our token is a standard implementation using basic templates. So it’s come off of open Zeppelin, ERC 20 preset mentor pauser, if you know what that means.

We had our token audited by Certik, and you can actually go to Certik’s website and we can put the link up showing the audit of the token. Our KYC provider within our portal is Sumsub and they provide our automated KYC, AML fraud detection for the Dimitra portal. Sumsub verifies our users on the portal, it usually takes about three to five minutes. Varies a little bit depending on the country that you’re coming from. Otherwise, most people will be buying our token on our exchanges.

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Security’s always been one of our highest priorities at Dimitra from the very beginning, and using sum sub and using Certik have been a huge value to us, because they bring a lot of capability and have been great advisors throughout the process. So if we want to skip into Dimitra token utility, think of the Dimitra platform. We start with our Connected Farmer platform, and we also have our Livestock Guru platform, these are the operating systems for Agtech. Our token actually drives utility in our ecosystem. So just keep that in mind as you’re looking at our token, that every kind of transaction we do has some relationship to the token. And as we onboard more and more users, those users will start driving demand in different ways for the token.

Subheading 6 – Dimitra Token Ecosystem

Many of the transactions within the platform themselves are done using DMTR tokens, or drive action on DMTR tokens, and I can give you some examples. So right off the bat, we start with staking. People who buy DMTR tokens can stake their tokens within the Dimitra portal, and they earn up to 13% APY. There is some detail around that, but everybody starts at 13% APY. We have a limited number of tokens that are available for staking.

But we’re nowhere near the threshold of those who can earn 13%. We also have the farmers use the Dimitra platform, and farmers earn DMTR points within our farmer points program. So when they perform different activities, they actually drive action on DMTR. So each farmer can transfer their DMTR points into DMTR tokens if they choose. And trade their DMTR tokens for other cryptocurrencies, or they can buy ecosystem services with them.

All of these transactions can be related to the DMTR token, and I’ll give you an example. So if a farmer wants to buy a sensor, they can buy that sensor through us, through their app using their DMTR or using their points.

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They can contract a soil specialist to come and do readings on their soil. So if you imagine the farmers told by the platform to plant a seed and they’re gonna plant on a specific day, they may earn some points for planting on the targeted day within the platform. And then, you know, shortly after that, once they’ve reached a certain number of days, they may irrigate, or they may add fertilizer. And all of those steps allow them to earn points within our platform. It’s a great reward for the farmer to load data, and data does create value for us.

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You know, another example of utility within our platform. We work a lot with NGOs and governments, farm associations, if they want to buy some of our advanced reports. If they want to buy some of our base reports, they can actually use DMTR to purchase those reports. And I’ll give you an example right now, we have a deal with an individual farming association focused on coffee, and they’ll actually be paying their licensing fees in DMTR. Another example, again, you go back to those NGOs, governments or farm associations. We have advanced reporting. So in our base platform, we offer five satellite reports, and we have advanced reports as well. In order to access those advanced reports, they use DMTR to purchase those reports.

Subheading – Dimitra Token Ecosystem

We do create incentives for people to use DMTR to make payments in the ecosystem. So they can convert or use DMTR and get a discount by using that, versus using US dollars. We talked a little bit about sensors and sensors is a great equalizer within our platform. You look at an individual contract, and that individual contract may have some number of users. For example, let’s say that the contract has a thousand users.

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Well, those thousand users may have 10,000 cows, and those 10,000 cows need 10,000 sensors. If they want to load sensors within the platform, they have to either onboard through DMTR, the sensors that they’re using, or buy our sensors, with DMTR. And then the other piece is we get a little bit of a multiplier on every one of those, ’cause we put margins on those transactions. And those margins coming back through DMTR allows the value to grow.

You know, lastly, we have an announcement I think that most of you have seen around Ocean Protocol. And we’re working with Ocean to make our data available through the Ocean data marketplace. And that Ocean data marketplace will actually be in the marketplace within the Dimitra app. And the farmers receive a percentage of the proceeds of that sale of data. So if we have a large amount of data on corn in Africa, for example, and somebody needs access to that, be that be commodity traders or brokers, universities, whoever the case may be, in order to get access to that data, they would go into our marketplace, buy the data, and then we share the proceeds of that through DMTR with the individual farmers.

So those are some great examples. We have projects where we provide grants for farmers in order to manage agricultural inputs, insecticides, fertilizers, different seeds, and advice. We also have our sensors and satellites, and all of this can be related to DMTR tokens within the ecosystem. So if you’d like to learn more about the Dimitra token, you can actually go to the website, dimitra.io/token and learn more.

The global population is on track to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. Such growth, in conjunction with globally rising incomes, has experts projecting the demand for food will increase by 70 to 100 percent over the next three decades. To keep up with demand, food production in developing nations would almost have to double. But the effects of climate change place enormous strain on smallholder farmers across the world.

Smallholder farmers often operate on less than 2 hectares of land. Crops vary by geographical location and climate. But often include staple foods — like rice and maize — that are vital to the global food supply. Smallholders alone produce roughly one-third of the world’s food. Often sustaining their own families alongside some of the most impoverished communities in the world.

While the natural landscape has always presented farmers from all walks of life with unique challenges to overcome, no threat looms as large as that of climate change. With obstacles mounting and long-familiar weather patterns changing in real time. Access to agricultural technology has become crucial for farmers in both developing and developed nations to succeed.

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These are just a few of the devastating climate issues smallholder farmers face today:

• Rapidly changing weather patterns
• Shifting seasonal planting and harvest dates
• Erratic rainfall and flooding
• Soil erosion and degradation
• Frequent droughts

To cope with these challenges, farmers are often forced to switch from familiar crops to more climate resilient varieties — a change that can impose immense hardships on smallholders during a transition that requires time, resources and crop-specific knowledge.

In areas known for specialty crops, changing weather patterns compromise the future viability of those crops entirely. One example points to the 2019 ice wine crop failure in Germany. Ice wine is a type of dessert wine made from grapes that have frozen on the vine. Rising temperatures in the region no longer reliably support ice wine crops, and yields have decreased in recent years.

In rural India, smallholder farmers combat soil degradation as a result of flooding, acidity, wind and water erosion and salinity. Agriculture is critical to India’s agrarian economy, which is why Dimitra is currently working with an Indian farmers organization to assess soil organic carbon levels, remediate degraded soil, and enhance farming productivity on 2 million farms.

Dimitra’s soil assessment and remediation project in India makes use of satellite data, mobile technology, IoT sensors, artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, and drones. Utilizing Dimitra’s “Connected Farmer” platform, organizational teams and their partners collect data with mobile, sensor and satellite technology. Dimitra uses high spatial resolution satellite images to monitor crop development and assist in measuring soil organic carbon in an efficient and economical way. This data is then analyzed with machine-based learning to provide actionable advice that allows local farmers to implement sustainable strategies in soil remediation.

Climate Resilient Farming: How AgTech Can Help

Agricultural technology — AgTech for short — works alongside farmers to marry traditional farming knowledge with real-time data and predictive insights.

The Connected Farmer, Dimitra’s base platform, allows smallholders to track crop and seed inputs, fertilizer and pesticide applications and crop yields. Field-level sensors combined with satellite imaging provide farmers with useful data and analytics that translate into actionable recommendations all based on machine learning. This information is accessible through the web or through the Dimitra app. Farmers can also register their farms, set up geofences, create livestock goals, schedule maintenance and register invoices.

With Dimitra’s livestock management platform, farmers can easily track key information, such as vaccinations, animal identity and DNA testing. Smallholders can also ensure they are rotating livestock through pastures at the correct intervals.

As farmers use Dimitra’s platform, they accrue points that. Upon reaching a specific threshold, can be converted into the Dimitra token. Smallholders can use the Dimitra token to purchase advanced modules or services within the Dimitra ecosystem. Or exchange it for other cryptocurrencies.

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Dimitra’s advanced satellite and weather modules provide farmers with real-time insights on crop health and changing weather patterns. Armed with this data, smallholders can better plan and prepare for shifting planting and harvest dates, erratic rainfall and droughts.

State of the art drone-based imagery allows for real-time crop evaluation from a bird’s eye vantage point, with image comparison capabilities to highlight potential pain points like moisture issues, pest infestations, crop exposure and shifting weather patterns. Advanced module drones can also provide precision spraying capabilities, reducing pesticide overuse and helping improve soil quality.

Dimitra’s advanced Online Agricultural Marketplace Module connects farmers with individual and corporate buyers and sellers. Farmers can list their produce, livestock and equipment. An ability that helps reduce crop waste and provides vital access to farming resources.

The Connected Farmer platform and each of Dimitra’s advanced modules. Were expertly crafted to solve specific problems farmers face on a daily basis.

Sustainable Agriculture: A Pathway Out of Poverty

When smallholder farmers are able to achieve surplus yields, they move beyond simply feeding their own families. With the help of agtech solutions like the Dimitra platform, and the modules available within it. Sustainable smallholder farming has the potential to pull millions of global citizens out of poverty. And feed millions more in the process.

Successful, diversified crop yields and livestock programs help provide food security and essential nutrition to smallholders, their families, and their communities at large. We believe data-driven farming can help smallholders increase their harvests, reduce costs and mitigate the imminent threats posed by climate change. By democratizing access to agtech solutions, we can transform subsistence farming into a sustainable and profitable endeavor for our world’s most vulnerable farmers.

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Dimitra Incorporated, a global Agtech company on a mission to make its technology available to small holder farmers globally, is excited to be working with Rumion Limited (a Kenmore Group company) a pig farming, feed crops, and cattle grazing enterprise based in Markham, Papua New Guinea (PNG) Drone Solutions.

Rumion and Dimitra have signed an agreement to deliver drone precision spray, spreading, and mapping services to fight the invasive Fall Armyworm (FAW). The FAW has had a significant impact on the Maize crop in PNG, Asia, and Northern Australia.

Dimitra is working with Rumion in collaboration with the Pacific Horticultural and Agricultural Market Access Plus Program (PHAMA Plus). With funding from the Australian Government and New Zealand Government and assisted by GrowPNG (part of Regional Grow Asia Network). To build a solution to suppress the FAW in PNG and look at the efficacy of Drone spray in corn. The program will be managed under the FAW Monitoring and Management Response in PNG Project.

Located in the Markham Valley, Morobe Province, Rumion Limited is PNG’s largest producer of pigs with around 12,000 heads. And is the major supplier to an associated company, ‘Prima Smallgoods.’ In addition to pig production, Rumion grows corn (maize) exclusively for stock feed manufacture. In their feed mill plant for their pigs and has a 5,000 head beef herd operation.

The initial engagement will run photographic mapping and NDVI and RTK processing across the Rumion properties. This will provide a reference tool loaded to the Dimitra platform. In conjunction with data collected from the current corn maize growing season and FAW infestation patterns. An optimal spray sequence would be devised leveraging 3 x 30L agricultural specific drones, purchased by Rumion and operated by Dimitra.

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“Partnering with Dimitra will enable the first use of agricultural specific drones in fighting the FAW infestation in PNG. with the aim to reduce human exposure to chemicals and increase application efficiency. In addition, we are looking forward to working with Dimitra to set up best practice for our operations to allow us to take advantage of agriculture across not only our cropping, but also our cattle operations as well,” said David Duran, General Manager, Rumion Limited,

Through assessing efficacy in a large enterprise. Dimitra will then work with Grow PNG and PHAMA Plus to evaluate a cost effective community based model. To provide drones as a Service (DaaS) approaches to small holder farmers in the surrounding farms. The project will look at the hypothesis that a coordinated precision spraying program across large and small holder farmers. Could increase the impact on FAW numbers while decreasing pesticide use.

“Grow PNG is excited to collaborate with Rumion, PHAMA Plus, Dimitra, and with the support of the Australian and New Zealand governments to look at the feasibility of a community based drone services model. The aim is for this engagement with agricultural technology to provide a lower cost of application, higher yield of crops, new technology job opportunities, and providing PNG’s small holder farmers much needed access to new technologies,” said John Simango, Executive Director, Grow PNG.

All data will be collected by the Dimitra ‘Connected Farmer’ application and dashboard. And vital information will be added to the Dimitra block chain. To provide immutable records of spray application events for the traceability of Rumion corn fed to their pigs in the piggery. And into the small goods produced and sold to the end consumers.

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Dimitra’s Regional Director, Ben Wark, said, “The engagement with Rumion Limited is an exciting opportunity to prove the effectiveness of the Dimitra platform and Drone technology in the very important fight against FAW in PNG. In collaboration with Grow PNG, PHAMA Plus and regional government agencies, the learnings from this engagement will open opportunities. For large and small holders across the Markham Valley and the whole of PNG!”

Rumion Limited is PNG’s largest producer of pigs with around 12,000 head. And is the major supplier to an associated company, ‘Prima Smallgoods’. In addition to pig production, Rumion grows corn (maize) exclusively for stock feed manufactured in their own feed mill plant. For the pigs and has a 5,000 head beef herd operation.

Australia and Papua New Guinea (PNG) share a special relationship, strong bonds and ambitions for the future. We are working together to implement the Papua New Guinea-Australia Comprehensive Strategic and Economic Partnership.

GrowPNG’s vision is to accelerate the growth of the agriculture sector in the Markham Valley by enabling small holder farmers to increase their income by 20% within eight years. GrowPNG is part of the Grow Asia network, a multi stake holder platform that builds field, national, and regional level partnerships to broker market driven solutions that cultivate inclusive, resilient and sustainable food systems in Southeast Asia.

The Pacific Horticultural and Agricultural Market Access Program or PHAMA Plus provides practical and assistance. To help Pacific Island countries manage regulatory aspects associated with exporting primary and value added products. This encompasses gaining access for products into new markets. And helping to manage issues associated with maintaining and improving existing trade.