BELIZE CITY, BELIZE — Dimitra Incorporated, a global Agtech company on a mission to make its Dimitra Connected Farmer platform available to smallholder farmers globally, is working together with The National Federation of Panela Producers to help them achieve the modernization and sustainability of the sector.

The National Federation of Panela Producers, also known as Fedepanela, represents the entire Panela sector in Colombia. And knows the reality and needs of the sector, as it has been working for more than 45 years to develop the sector and empower the farmers.

What is Panela?

Panela (also known as Rapadura or Brown Sugar) is made from sugar cane. Panela sugar is an unrefined non-centrifugal sugar derived from sugar cane juice. And is characterized by its caramel-like colour and high molasses content. This sugar industry is comprised of mostly smallholder farmers. After coffee, the panela sector is the second largest agroindustry in social importance in Colombia. Operated by more than 350,000 families. The sector is present in 29 of the 32 states and more than 50% of the Cities in Colombia. It has a planted area of 206,479Ha, more than 75,000 farms, generating more than 377,805 jobs per year. The country supplies 10% of the world’s production of panela!

Dimitra will provide knowledge and technology to help revolutionize the Colombian Panela sector. Through the use of Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain, Machine Learning, Drones and Satellite Images. Dimitra seeks to help farmers produce better quality yields with less cost and greater productive predictability.

Together, Fedepanela and Dimitra will deliver cutting-edge technologies and data-driven insights to farmers. Allowing them access to information and guidelines that help improve their profitability in an increasingly sustainable way through Dimitra’s application.

The first step of working together will involve conducting a field test in the next few months. Since Panela is a product with a high social impact in Colombia, this partnership is expected to greatly reduce poverty, fight hunger in Colombia and other countries, and contribute to the increased Colombian GDP.

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Fernando Mahecha Aguilera, Dimitra’s Colombian Sales Partner, says, “Signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Fedepanela and Dimitra Technology, represents Colombia’s entry into the use of agrotechnological techniques that will bring our agriculture, livestock, and fish farming to precision levels, raising the production, reducing costs and mitigating risks, achieving a quantum leap thanks to the democratization of knowledge in the rural sector for small and medium growers, which will provide them with better standards of living by taking them by the hand and directly to the agro-industrialization of its products, putting them in contact with international markets. Our “Connected Farmer” application is this and much more for our society and the rural world.”

The National Federation of Panela Producers of Colombia — Fedepanela, says, “We have decided to sign a Memorandum of understanding with Dimitra Technology because it is the best alternative that allows us to innovate in the sector, which enables us to enhance the productive and sustainable development of our producers.”

Dimitra 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 should benefit from simple, beautiful, and useful technology regardless of economic standing.

Fedepanela It is a non-profit union entity representing the Paneleros producers from all over Colombia. Its main objective is to promote the improvement of the standard of living of all the producers who work in the Panelero subsector, to make this activity competitive and profitable, defend the collective interests and the remunerative income of its members, as well as contribute to technological development, social, commercial and environmental aspects of the national rural sector.

Dimitra Incorporated, an Agtech company on a mission to make its Dimitra Connected Farmer plat form available to small holder farmers globally. Has joined The Linux Foundation’s AgStack Project as a gold member. Agstack is a Foundation that seeks to improve global agriculture efficiency. By creating, maintaining, and en hancing free, re usable, open, and specialized digital infrastructure for data and applications.

Dimitra released their base plat form over a year ago and is developing a global eco system. That enables other companies to develop on top of the Dimitra App, making their tech available to Dimitra’s customers. AgStack Foundation has developed various agro nomic models and data for pest, crop, and animal management as well as weather prediction.

Dimitra’s CEO says, “It is exciting to join the Agstack @ The Linux Foundation to further the development of advanced technologies helping farmers of the world. Agstack’s partners are leading global open source initiatives to aid in the development of extensions to support compliance, privacy, user management, and hard ware integrations.“

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“The world’s food supply needs a 21st century make over and digital trans formation is coming quickly to a farm near you. To empower the leaders of this change across our planet, AgStack offers a free, open, and robust digital foundation to ensure system interoperability, code reusability, and reduced time- and cost to market”. Says Sumer Johal, Executive Director and Founder of AgStack @ The Linux Foundation.

Dimitra 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 is built on block chain 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 should benefit from simple, beautiful, and useful technology regardless of eco nomic standing.

AgStack is a project of The Linux Foundation. The project seeks to improve global agriculture efficiency by creating, maintaining. And enhancing free, inclusive, re usable, open, and specialized digital infrastructure for agriculturally relevant data and applications. AgStack leverages the governance and collaboration structure and processes of The Linux Foundation. The world’s largest collaboration of open source software spanning over 40 countries and 1 million developers.

Dimitra Incorporated, a company on a mission to make its Dimitra Connected Farmer platform available to small holder farmers globally. Is excited to be working with Solok Radjo Cooperative, a Coffee Cooperative and farming community based in West Sumatra, Indonesia.

Solok Radjo and Dimitra have signed an agreement to develop a solution. Accelerating the growth and profitability of Solok’s coffee to premium export markets. Demand for traceability and provenance in today’s coffee industry requires that the solution manages all areas of the extended supply chain — farming, collection, processing, and exporting.

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Solok Radjo’s sustainability strategy has seen the development of an integrated agricultural ecosystem. As well as agroforestry, this ecosystem incorporates cattle as a source of dietary protein, domestic income generation, and fertilizer byproducts that are then spread on the coffee plantation.

By leveraging the power of the Dimitra ‘Connected Farmer’ application and dash board, vital information will be collected and added to the Dimitra block chain to provide immutable records of events for the traceability of Solok Radjo coffee for export to the United States, Australia, and Europe.

Dimitra brings a simple to use platform for the farmers and cooperative management. It is simple to use for them but a hugely powerful back end that will use Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial intelligence (AI) to pull insights from tracked activities in the field. As well as generating the export documentation required to ship to end customers.

Solok Radjo Cooperative is a progressive social farming enterprise using environmentally friendly farm practices to nurture the land under crop. The cooperative motivates farmers to optimize the yields of their land. Farmers should be able to gain benefits from coffee farming while the cooperative process and market the coffee fruits. In addition, cattle are included in the eco system for human protein. Sales to domestic markets for diversified income and the manure is used on the plantations to boost soil health. Solok Radjo has 3300 farmers within the network of the cooperative and is looking to double their farmers in the next two years.

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Dimitra’s Indonesia Country Partner, Ricky Tanudibrata, said, “The Solok Radjo cooperative is an exciting opportunity to prove the effectiveness of the Dimitra Connected Farmer solution in Indonesia. This will open opportunities across Sumatra and Indonesia, which are enormous.”

‘Partnering with Dimitra is important for Solok Radjo to realize an integrated, data based, sustainable coffee. We are greatly looking forward to working with Dimitra’s Connected Farmer platform to provide a more structured approach to our production and to allow us to meet the requirements of our export partners while helping the environment and the lives of our cooperative community,” said Head of Solok Radjo project, Alfadriansyah (Adi).

Dimitra 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 should benefit from simple, beautiful, and useful technology regardless of standing.

Solok Radjo Cooperative is a network of 3300 members producing coffee for domestic and export markets. The cooperative’s point of difference is their focus on agriculture and re forestry throughout the coffee growing activities. Protecting coffee plots with shade trees provides a buffer for soil erosion and prolongs the coffee cherry window. Solok Radjo — “coffee for the people and the earth.”

Dimitra Incorporated, a global Agtech company on a mission to make its Dimitra Connected Farmer platform available. To small holder farmers globally, is thrilled to announce a new agreement covering Pico’s Agriculture Farms in Egypt. This agreement signed along side our Technology Partner Prosoft Information Systems as one of the Egyptian leading Technology companies.

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Pico Modern Agriculture will benefit from Dimitra’s Technologies, knowledge, and experience. To empower their farms and services with emerging technology capabilities through this strategic collaboration. Through the collaboration and use of the Dimitra Connected Farmer Modules and Dimitra Advanced Technologies. Pico Agriculture can utilize technologies such as IoT (Internet of Things) Devices & Sensors, Weather, Satellite Report, and many more. In addition, Pico Modern Agriculture Company can access Dimitra’s Modules and strategic consultancy. For end to end execution, which will result in cost optimization and value creation. “The agreement between Dimitra and Pico Agri will focus on increasing yields and reducing costs for Pico crops and farms.”

The relationship will enable Pico Farms to leverage Dimitra’s Technology leading position in digitizing its consumer products and service offerings. Dimitra’s Regional Director, Maged Elmontaser, says, “ Pico Modern Agriculture Company is a leading agriculture company with a long tradition of successful business operations over the last two decades. Dimitra has focused on its transformation to ensure we stand side by side with Egypt’s most developed Agriculture companies. Our cooperation with Pico will provide them with access to all important resources in the sphere of digital transformation. And make it possible for us to increase the efficiency of their operations, optimize costs, and improve Pico’s farming experience. ”

Dimitra’s Country Sales partner Mr. Atef Tawfik states: “We are delighted to welcome Pico Modern Agriculture Company to our customers’ market family and look forward to working together to bring the benefits of our knowledge and expertise.”

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Prosoft’s Business Development Specialist, Hussein Ayman, says “Dimitra, along side its technology partner in Egypt, Prosoft Information Systems, is thrilled to announce an MoU with PICO Agriculture. The MoU provides a framework for all parties to lead the way towards smart, data driven agriculture in line with the Egyptian government’s strategy for embracing the 4th Industrial Revolution. For the past 5 decades, PICO has been a market leader and a household name, innovating in the growth of premium fruits to supply local and global markets at world-class standards. Partnering with Dimitra allows PICO to blur the boundaries between the physical, digital, and biological worlds as they begin to adopt artificial intelligence, data analysis, satellite imaging, and IoT enablement. This adoption of technology will help PICO meet its sustainability goals. While also boosting operational efficiency, as utilizing precision agriculture methods allows them to do more with less.”

Dimitra 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 platform is on block chain 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 should benefit from simple, beautiful, and useful technology regardless of economic standing.

PICO Modern Agriculture Company 1974 by its founder, Dr. Kamel Tawfik Diab. PICO uses advanced technology, cultivating neglected land and effectively establishing long-lasting global relations to increase its export and boost the Egyptian citrus industry. Currently, PICO supplies superior produce all across the world.

With responsible design, development, and implementation, drones are invaluable AgTech tools, especially for smallholder farmers who feel losses and gains acutely. That’s why Dimitra is partnering with DroneX and other drone manufacturers to implement drone-based solutions. Keep reading to learn how we’re using drones to help farmers increase yield, mitigate risk and develop more sustainable practices.

Dimitra’s Connected Farmer platform will harness multiple technologies, including drones, to make precision agriculture a reality. Smart drones, sensors, satellites, machine learning, and numerous supporting modules will allow smallholder farmers to receive unprecedented insights at every stage of crop production.

Smart drones, also called aerial robots, do more than provide an additional vantage point (although that alone is helpful to farmers). They can also accomplish a variety of critical tasks, including the following:

Create 3D models of properties

Seed crops or pasture

Spray crops or pastures for weeds or with liquid fertilizer

Photograph plants for pathogenic infections

Survey farms for pest infestations

Conduct detailed, on-the-fly analysis of water points, infrastructure or environmental damage after weather events

Autonomously undertake repetitive tasks

As drone technology improves, there’s no limit to agricultural applications. With the adoption of AgTech solutions like smart drones, farmers can improve their yields, their lives, and their land.

Drones are expensive and not viable in most cases for small holder farmers to purchase. This is why Dimitra is working with hardware and software vendors to create service models.

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In addition to seeding and spraying, smart drones can help small holder farmers scout and map areas, pollinate, monitor livestock, and more. Despite their transformative potential, the reality is that drones are too expensive for smallholders to purchase alone. However, drones can be hired to do small jobs for the farmer at an affordable cost per acre with a community-based approach to ownership. Additionally, community members can learn how to operate drones, opening up a new alternative income stream.

Where Do Drones Fit into Dimitra’s Ecosystem?

Dimitra’s mission is to equip under served farmers with AgTech to improve their quality of life and their environment. Accomplishing this requires a unique company structure. As a result, the Dimitra Ecosystem is divided into four equally important parts:

Labs Dimitra Labs, develops and delivers software solutions

Dimitra Ecosystem Partner, includes service and tech startups that help deliver Dimitra services to farmers

Incorporated Dimitra Incorporated, which encompasses the DMTR token, as well as serves as the International HQ

Dimitra Investments, which facilitates innovation contests, AgTech business funds, startup funds, camps, and more

As a Dimitra Ecosystem Partner, DroneX and other drone manufacturers help develop. And deliver smart drone technologies to the farmers who need them most.

How is $DMTR a Key in our Ecosystem?
When farmers utilize the Dimitra Connected Farmer Platform while using a drone on their farm, they acquire Dimitra points as an incentive to record their farming information. Once farmers have accumulated enough points, they can transfer them into Dimitra token ($DMTR) to purchase ecosystem services such as a drone specialist that will help improve their farm conditions. Alternately, farmers have the opportunity to transfer their DMTR into another cryptocurrency and off ramp into their local currency. Farmers’ trust in the Dimitra system grows as yields increase, creating a service and token demand cycle. The utility of the DMTR token drives the Dimitra ecosystem, but more specifically, it drives Dimitra’s drone ecosystem.

Dimitra Open Hardware Ecosystem

The Dimitra Open Hardware Ecosystem (DOHE) encourages third party hardware developers to create and deploy complementary devices in the Dimitra ecosystem. As such, the potential for partnerships is unlimited. In addition to drones, technologies could include animal GPS and soil sensors, edge computing devices, WiFi gateways and routers, robots, motion detectors, intrusion detectors, livestock wearables, and more.

Drone as a Service (DaaS) Model

In the software as a service (SaaS) model, a cloud provider hosts applications accessed by end users through the internet. This allows for a more equitable distribution of essential AgTech.

By using the drone as a service (DaaS) model. Dimitra will help agricultural communities fund drones, train pilots, and create drone related businesses that serve community needs.

The Dimitra / DroneX Partnership

Dimitra could not be more excited to welcome DroneX to the Dimitra Ecosystem! As a cutting edge development and manufacturing startup, DroneX focuses on creating designed for purpose drones. The company was developed from the ground up and doesn’t rely on third party controllers or cloud systems to manage drones or data.

DroneX is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, but has deep connections to Vietnam. With valuable insights into the distinct struggles of rural farmers in Southeast Asia, DroneX is an ideal partner with which to begin this journey. Together, Dimitra and DroneX will create bundled hardware software solutions, starting with offering spray drones and management platforms to farmers in Southeast Asia.

Agtech Solutions for Smallholder Farmers

To end the climate spiral, we must encourage the adoption of AgTech on rural farms throughout the world. Doing so will preserve resources, reduce land degradation, and help stabilize the most threatened areas by climate driven crises. Smart drones are one of the many technologies that will help us achieve this.

You don’t have to develop software or own a startup to support Dimitra’s mission. You can join the effort through Dimitra’s DMTR token, which is listed on Kucoin, Uniswap, Gate.io, and Bitmart. The fight against world hunger and climate change won’t be won by companies alone; it can only happen with support from readers like you.

Dimitra Incorporated ($DMTR) is entering the agricultural lending market, making micro loans available to 570 million farmers globally through Dimitra’s proprietary agricultural management platform. The platform will provide loans in three areas, crop inputs, live stock, and trade finance. Dimitra is banking the unbanked by providing access to capital to those that don’t have access to capital. CeDeFi Breakdown

The loans that Dimitra is offering provide small holder farmers the opportunity to collateralize their crops by securing a loan with crop certificates (a promissory note related to harvest). For example, these loans can be for inputs (seed, fertilizer, and chemicals) which are then repaid upon harvest and when the crops are sold to market. Keep reading for a step by step guide on how these microloans work.

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1. Dimitra signs agreements with cooperatives, farmers’ unions, and farming associations. Every farmer in these cooperatives is given access to Dimitra’s basic application. The cooperative or lending institutions will maintain default insurance for their members.
2. Farmers begin to register their livestock or crops in the Connected Farmer App. The data collected through the app helps determine loan approvals. The app allows farmers to join Dimitra’s Farmers Points Program and help with tracking and tracing their live stock and products.
3. Farmer members of partner cooperatives apply for loans in the Dimitra Connected Farmer App. As the app meets KYC requirements for loan provision. The loan approval is automated.
4. The farmer receives USDT in a personal wallet. A QR code is generated to allow local institutions to help farmers convert USDT to local currency.
5. The farmer buys seed, fertilizer, chemicals, other farming needs, etc.
6. The farmer uses the Dimitra Connected Farmer application to help maximize yield, reduce cost, and mitigate risk.
7. The farmer harvests and sells their crops.
8. The farmer pays back the loan with interest.

The following scenario is directly applicable to trade finance deals. Consider what happens if a farmer can produce the crops needed throughout the season. But is waiting on export or an external vendor for payment?

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1. The farmer harvests and applies for a trade finance loan and waits for payment to arrive from the export customer.
2. The export customer agrees to pay Dimitra upon receipt, and the farmer receives 80% of the invoice for their crops.
3. The export customer receives the shipment and then pays Dimitra through the smart contract.
4. Dimitra and the farmer reconcile fees and interest, and the farmer receives the balance of the proceeds.

The trade finance method benefits both the farmer exporting their goods and the customer importing them by introducing Dimitra as a third party to mitigate their payment and supply risks. Dimitra provides the farmers with accelerated receivables and the customer with extended credit. Combining the financial and agriculture industries while integrating more parts in the supply chain gives farmers and exporters customers more opportunities to conduct business.

Each lending partner will receive access to a portal or application integration to help manage members and track each step from the loan approval to shipping, and lastly, payment. In addition, Dimitra will introduce more parties into the system by integrating trade finance, creating full transparency for each party involved.

The Problem

Smallholder farmers face a crisis of scarcity, their resources are ever-diminishing and their needs are ever-growing. Small, multi-generational farms are responsible for feeding local communities around the globe. As the climate crisis escalates this situation, an existing environment of tension reaches a new level of severity. Impoverished farmers are faced with impossible circumstances and have no recourse or funds to dig themselves out. This is a problem that demands a solution.

Agricultural development is one of the most powerful mechanisms to ending extreme poverty. Compared to other sectors, it is two to four times more effective in raising the incomes and the living standards amongst the poor. Small holder farmers that have access to better financial support have opportunities. To increase their profits and increase overall productivity on their farms. Dimitra can help provide this support.

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As an example, let’s take Joshua Reyes, a smallholder farmer in the Philippines. Joshua and his family will plant, tend to, and harvest a full crop load of rice. From their two hectares of land every viable season. Unfortunately, the effects of the latest typhoon Rai caused Joshua’s family farm to be impacted by severe flooding. And they lost all their crops and the few livestock they had. 

The country’s agriculture ministry estimates farming and fishing took a $230 million hit, severely impacting the communities affected. This is not an uncommon situation. As climate disasters become increasingly common, more farmers are at risk of being affected in the coming decades. In many cases, humanitarian aid is available to cover the immediate survival needs of the community, but it is not always sustainable for long-term recovery. Dimitra’s CeDeFi agricultural loan system can provide Joshua and farmers like him with more opportunities. And allow him to have a second chance to feed his family this coming season.

Walking through the Loan Process

So what happens now? Farmers like Joshua that have access to Dimitra’s Connected Farmer Platform will have the ability to submit an online application for a loan to help get their farm back on track through the finance module. All farmers who apply for the loan must be members of a cooperative, government, or a non-government organization in a country that Dimitra currently operates in. Once the loan is approved, funds will be automatically transferred to Joshua as USDT or another stable coin. By partnering with local banks, lending institutions, and in-country partners, set up jointly by Dimitra. And the cooperatives, farmers will have increased access to cash to make their businesses prosper.

Joshua will have the chance to use the loan to assist in buying crops, seeds, fertilizers, services, chemicals, or general tools to help with his farming needs next season. For the loan approval and monitoring, farmers will have to use the app and enter specific data about their farm location, soil preparation, planting, and plant care throughout the season. With the farm location, Dimitra can monitor crop performance via satellite imagery and look at the past 15 years of crop performance on the same land. Dimitra’s teams will analyze the data submitted to help Joshua get the most out of his crop yields, mitigate potential risks, and regularly provide him with actionable insights.

The Lasting Global Impact

The Dimitra CeDefi loan program is underpinned by the Dimitra Token ($DMTR), which drives the ecosystem within the Dimitra platform. DMTR token is like the “gas” within the engine of the Dimitra ecosystem, and Dimitra token investors act as the “gas” providers, helping to make a difference in the Dimitra ecosystem and in the lives of many. $DMTR token staking is also another way to provide financial yield opportunities to participants in the rapidly growing world of decentralized public crypto-economics.

The Dimitra CeDefi loan program is an example of multiple technologies being used to open new doors. For smallholder farmers in ways that were not possible before. The CeDefi program helps leverage banking and integrates sectors that previously had no connection. Farmers may not have the means to transfer crypto to money. Still, the Dimitra application and its partnerships with lenders and banks will allow for this opportunity of integrating agriculture and cryptocurrency.

Making a lasting impact on the lives of farmers and creating a more sustainable future for farmers like Joshua Reyes is Dimitra’s goal. Dimitra aims to reach 100 million smallholder farmers with the Connected Farmer application in 4 years. The Dimitra Platform enables farmers to use advanced technology and provide real actionable data. It also helps break the cycle of poverty, enrich farmers’ lives, and increase crop yields and healthier livestock.

Dimitra Incorporated, a global Agtech company whose mission is to make its block chain based Dimitra platform available to small holder farmers, today announced that it has joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA). A member led industry organization dedicated to driving the use of Enterprise Ethereum and Mainnet Ethereum block chain technology. As an open standard to empower all enterprises.

As a member of the EEA, Dimitra will collaborate with industry leaders. In pursuit of Ethereum-based, technology best practices, open standards, and open source reference architectures. Dimitra is excited to be part of the EEA. And will bring the Dimitra platform to the EEA membership with the intention of growing the Ethereum eco system.

“We’re excited to join the EEA which will offer us the opportunity to leverage the EEA’s expertise in enterprise grade block chain and software development and to collaborate with their community and explore best practices learned through years of block chain integration,” said Jon Trask, CEO, Dimitra Incorporated.

The EEA’s membership base represents companies from every region of the world. The EEA’s Interest Groups, Working Groups and events bring together the top Ethereum and global business leaders, technologists, and industry experts to learn about the latest business reference implementations, real world use cases, and technical innovations. The EEA Community Projects, the governing body of critical Ethereum projects like the Baseline Protocol Initiative, is the hub for open source standards development in the Ethereum industry. Alongside EEA’s member driven initiatives, the EEA Community Projects extends the pool of partners, talented developers and engineers dedicated to solving similar problems. And helping the Ethereum community innovate even faster around initiatives.

About the EEA

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) enables organizations to adopt and use Ethereum technology in their daily business operations. The EEA empowers the Ethereum ecosystem to develop new business opportunities, drive industry adoption, and learn and collaborate. The EEA Community Projects will help businesses innovate even faster around standards. And project initiatives that benefit Ethereum as a whole. To learn more about joining the EEA, reach out to membership@entethalliance.org or visit https://entethalliance.org/become-a-member/.

About Dimitra Incorporated

Dimitra 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 platform is built on block chain 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.

Belize City, Belize — Decentralized finance (DeFi) has upended traditional finance models across all industries. Dimitra, a leader in agritech and blockchain, has developed a novel and new approach to lending for farmers across the globe. With this new initiative, Dimitra’s token holders also stand to benefit from increased utilization of the Dimitra $DMTR token across the Dimitra ecosystem and Dimitra token holders will also directly participate in making a difference to the farmers who need it most. Dimitra token holders stand to benefit from a strengthened agro value chain as the company launches its CeDeFi lending product.

Built on Global Lending Partnerships

Dimitra is a purpose-driven company with a unique mission of providing its agrotechnology platform to smallholder farmers globally. This mission is by the $DMTR token. Which cryptocurrency investors can find on Kucoin, Gate, Bitmart and Uniswap.

Dimitra’s next step is CeDeFi lending, and Dimitra has partnered with countries across Asia, Africa and South America. Dimitra has established a few critical lending pilots with key partners and offers “input” lending to farmers and this will get the much-needed funds directly into the hands of those who need it the most.

Agrifinance Loans for Agricultural Inputs and Trade Finance

Dimitra agrifinance loans will initially be for agricultural “inputs” — including seed, chemicals, fertilizer, and trade finance. Combining this with the Dimitra Connected Farmer application will enable these agricultural cooperatives partners and farmers within these organizations to improve their production and better manage a complex value chain by helping with tracking and tracing of their products and livestock to international export markets while also having the positive effect of commanding better prices for their goods.

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Dimitra agrifinance loans will be delivered through farming cooperatives, associations, and unions. They will go directly to farmers and include insurance that helps farmers mitigate the risk of default, climate change and natural disasters.

Dimitra Founder and CEO, Jon Trask, a subject matter expert in enterprise blockchain and emerging technology explains, “Smallholder farmers face a crisis of scarcity: their resources are ever-diminishing and their needs are ever-growing. Small, multi-generational farms are responsible for feeding local communities around the globe. As the climate crisis escalates, an existing environment of tension has reached a new level of severity. Impoverished farmers are now faced with impossible circumstances and have no recourse or funds to dig themselves out. This is a problem that demands a solution.”

Trask understands that agricultural development is one of the most powerful mechanisms to ending extreme poverty. Compared to other sectors, agriculture is two to four times more effective in raising the incomes. And living standards of the poorest people in the world.

Smallholder farmers with better access to financial support will have greater possibilities and opportunities to increase their profit and overall productivity on their farms.

Loan Goals = 50 Million Farmers

Dimitra has agreements in place with lending institutions to provide loans through farming cooperatives with over 50 million farmers. They are piloting these loans while testing related smart contracts in early 2022. And will begin scaling lending operations in the coming months. Dimitra has an immediate requirement to provide for 50,000 individual farm loans across a small group of farmers unions.

What to Expect – Dimitra $DMTR

Dimitra $DMTR Token holders and members of the crypto investment community are watching this rollout closely. The company has confirmed that 100% of the income from loans will be traded through the $DMTR/USDT pair. And remain within the Dimitra value chain. This is to include loan premiums and profits.

Ocean Protocol, the decentralized data exchange protocol to unlock data for AI and business innovation, has entered into a partner ship with Dimitra, a technology company guided by the mission to deliver technology to help farmers around the globe improve operations and deliver higher yields.

Dimitra’s software plat form leverages advanced technology to provide farmers with data and its current adoption is targeted at 100 million small holder farmers by the end of 2025. Addressing the crucial need for insightful data to further the growth of the agricultural eco system, the aim of this partner ship is to mitigate operational and financial problems and deliver relevant, valuable data driven information to farmers globally.

As part of the collaboration. Ocean’s Web3 capabilities will be employed to enable data sharing and monetization for small farmers around the world. The organizations will work to achieve this by introducing Ocean Market to Dimitra eco system members and on boarding them. Ocean Market is an out of the box, privacy preserving, intuitive data marketplace for the secure sharing and monetization of data. By publishing, and selling their data in the Ocean Market. Small farmers can add an extra layer of revenue to their operations. And the global agricultural eco system will benefit from the exchange of vital datasets.

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To enable greater food security globally and productivity. Dimitra’s goal is to place technology in the hands of millions of small farmers around the world. With the help of Dimitra’s soft ware platform. Allowing them to make informed decisions to increase yield, reduce cost and mitigate risk. As of 2021, Dimitra’s additional objectives include advancing AgTech innovation and securing operational grants. For developing countries around the world to enable participation in the Dimitra Ecosystem.

Bruce Pon, Ocean Protocol Co-Founder, shares his thoughts on the collaboration:

“Actionable data will be a game changer for current farming methods. Ocean Protocol is joining forces with Dimitra to scale up Ocean Market adoption. And help towards growing the global economy and ensure food security.”

Jon Trask, Dimitra CEO adds:

“Farmers and cooperatives in the Dimitra eco system produce a great deal of valuable data regarding soil conditions, crop conditions, animal health, seed performance and the extended food chain. This partner ship provides Dimitra eco system farmers with a second source of revenue through the monetization of their data, and reinforces the value of agricultural digitization to increase crop yields, reduce costs and mitigate risks to their farms.”

About Ocean Protocol

Ocean Protocol is a data exchange platform spear heading the movement to unlock a new Data Economy, break down data silos, and open access to quality data. Ocean’s marketplace technology allows data to be published, discovered. And consumed in a secure, privacy manner By giving power back to data owners. Ocean resolves the trade off between using private data and its public exposure.

About Dimitra

Dimitra’s mission is to place technology in the hands of millions of small farmers around the world. By doing so, Dimitra aims to enhance and therefore the lives of farmers, improve food safety, and enable greater food security around the world.