Dimitra SASPRI-IPB – BELIZE CITY, BELIZE — Dimitra Incorporated, a global Agtech company on a mission to make its technology available to farmers globally, is teaming up with SASPRI-IPB, a social enterprise company linked to the Agriculture Institute Bogor (IPB) to promote the development of community-based cattle farming. This collaboration aims to build Indonesian cattle farmers’ raising capabilities and increase their data-based production and efficiency.

Closing the gap between the supply and demand of beef

To date, domestic production can only satisfy about 45% of the demand for beef in Indonesia. Moreover, most smallholder farmers keep breeding stock rather than fattening cattle. Farmers do this as they aim to have animals for extended periods to provide progeny to be sold and a continuum of stock to provide manure for cropping.

Dimitra and SASPRI are working to close the gap between the supply and demand of beef in Indonesia while supporting and empowering its farmers. In short, they plan to do this by implementing a community cattle farming development program based on a data-driven farming model. In addition, SASPRI will make sure its cattle business owners improve the quality of their breeding cattle with certifications through this program.

A breakdown of the technology – Dimitra SASPRI-IPB

After the farmers have gone through the nine months and ten days of training, in collaboration with SASPRI, Dimitra will implement the Connected Farmer livestock module for these trained cattle farmers. Moreover, 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.

More specifically, farmers will have access to the following functionalities:

• Data acquisition
• Process management
• Data analysis and artificial intelligence
• Report generation
• Operational control center
• Hardware integration like ear tags

“SASPRI believes that by using Dimitra, smallholder farmers can increase the transparency and quality of their products. With traceability, consumers can trace the origins of products. Consumers can also understand the cultivation methods used and appreciate the hard work of breeders. It also helps protect farmers from unfounded accusations against their products,” says Founder and Chairman of SASPRI, Professor Muladno. “Collaboration between the government, universities, the business world, and technology such as Dimitra is very important. It supports the growth and digital transformation of the agriculture, livestock, and plantation sectors. Using the right technology, smallholder farmers can gain the recognition they deserve and continue their role in providing high-quality products that consumers value.”

Using data-driven farming to grow a community – Dimitra SASPRI-IPB

There are a few things that these two organizations will keep in mind during this partnership. Firstly, exploring collaboration patterns in the data-based community cattle breeding program. Secondly, continuously initiating, assisting, monitoring, and evaluating the performance of this program.

The main focus of this program is cattle. However, there are opportunities for other farm animals, such as buffalo, sheep, and goats. Dimitra will add these animals to the program on a case-by-case basis.

Ultimately, SASPRI, in collaboration with Dimitra. Is working to recruit smallholder cattle breeders and improve their capabilities through education and certification. Following that, they plan to consolidate them into a cooperative. The goal is to increase competitiveness and improve the welfare of farmers. In fact, they are inviting local universities and governments to take advantage of their role in mobilizing breeders.

“Fortunately, the presence of technology like that developed by Dimitra is expected to bring positive changes. Through this technology, customers and consumers will now be able to obtain consolidated information on livestock numbers, livestock origin, quality, and health of livestock,” says Founder and Chairman of SASPRI, Professor Muladno. “By utilizing Dimitra’s technology, SASPRI’s efforts to build a collective business that aims to encourage the independence of farmers, ranchers, and area managers can be realized more quickly and more massively. SASPRI believes that this movement can strengthen the livestock sector as a whole through close cooperation and the use of the right technology. Even though it started on a small scale, this collective business has the potential to grow and reach a national scale.”

Overview from Ricky

Dimitra SASPRI-IPB – Dimitra’s Indonesian country partner, Ricky Tanudibrata, says, “SASPRI-IPB and SPR, which is its educational arm, are instrumental in educating livestock entrepreneurs to follow sustainable farming practices, meet market volume and quality needs and, finally, build their welfare.

For this reason, Dimitra is here, providing solutions that are easy to implement and can be followed up by farmers. The interactions between breeders and the Dimitra technology ecosystem recorded on the blockchain will benefit other stakeholders in the beef supply chain. Buyers and consumers know exactly what they buy/eat and enjoy the transparency provided by the system.

Not to mention, this data-driven openness is undeniable. In turn, it will give the independent cattle farming community more opportunities and the confidence to grow. It will increase the availability of beef and improve the beef’s great taste. In addition, the availability of meat from smallholder cattle farms, which is healthier for consumers, will also increase.

So the strategic collaboration between SASPRI-IPB and Dimitra is to build the capacity of smallholder cattle breeders to be able to provide beef from their cattle farms. This beef is raised based on excellent and sustainable animal husbandry practices. It comes from the farms using Dimitra’s Connected Farmer platform. It is healthier for consumers and, at the same time, for our environment.”

Dimitra AgTech Breakthrough – August 18, 2023 — Dimitra has been selected as “Blockchain-based AgTech Solution Of The Year” in the 4th annual AgTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by AgTech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global agricultural and food technology markets today.

Dimitra provides technology to farmers worldwide through the use of blockchain. The agricultural application system helps farmers use technology to increase productivity, improve yield, and reduce cost and risk.

Therefore, Dimitra’s blockchain-based, “Connected Farmer” platform integrates satellite, AI, Machine Learning, IoT and more, while providing farmers with actionable data to make intelligent decisions and improve operations. Examples include implementing blockchain technology to automate regulatory and shipping documents, national and international food certification documents. As well as compliance documents, supporting the regulations and governance of the agro industry.

For instance, Dimitra also makes use of blockchain technology for reliable coffee traceability and through the entire supply chain process. The Dimitra system streamlines the whole supply chain, with tracking mechanisms from farm. To buying station and warehouses, through global transactions. The blockchain works to replace manual recordkeeping along the supply chain. Traceability enables downstream quality controls, and the ability to backtrack to upstream origin.

Dimitra has also built a Deforestation Certificate solution for farmers, traders, importers and consumer packaged goods companies. To ensure every shipment is compliant and meets the regulatory requirements of the EU. The solution combines satellite analysis, GPS data, AI, blockchain, and mobile technology, allowing operators to detect deforestation, prove compliance, and reduce the risk of fraud.

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Such as, Farmers and cooperatives can consolidate the information on their farms with all data written to an enterprise grade blockchain. That provides transparency and takes advantage of blockchain’s security and immutable ledger.

“It all begins with the blockchain. We set out to develop the world’s first international agriculture network built on the blockchain. Thank you to AgTech Breakthrough for offering support to our mission of making advanced agtech available to small and medium-size farmers,” said Jon Trask, founder and CEO of Dimitra. “Agriculture feeds the global supply chain and we want to provide a solution from farm to plate. We will continue to expand on our platform’s capabilities. And deliver more value to farmers and, by extension, their communities, regions, and countries.”

The mission of the annual AgTech Breakthrough Awards program is to conduct the industry’s most comprehensive analysis. And evaluation of agricultural and food technology categories, including Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based agricultural technologies, farm management, indoor farming, food quality, data analytics and many more. This year’s program attracted more than 1,750 nominations from over 15 different countries throughout the world.

“We’re thrilled to recognize Dimitra as ‘Blockchain-based AgTech Solution Of The Year.’ Supply chain automation using blockchain solutions, alone, is groundbreaking. Dimitra’s tech stack, which includes ML, AI, IoT, satellite, and drones, is having a worldwide impact on agriculture development,”. Said Bryan Vaughn, Managing Director, AgTech Breakthrough. “Blockchain is crucial to agriculture because it levels the playing field for farmers while also aligning with the regional needs of farming. It allows farmers of all sizes to improve productivity with the power of data.”

About Dimitra

Dimitra has gained a global reputation as a leader in AgTech solutions. Partnering with national governments, farmer associations, NGOs, and development banks. By creating “Smart Farming” solutions, they have created actionable steps to enhance food security through sustainable agriculture while driving economic growth and development for local farmers and countries. It is part of their mission to “Think Local, Act Global,” a policy that brings unprecedented economic prosperity. To small and medium-sized farmers — which in turn spurs growth in local communities, cities, and nations.

By focusing on supporting smallholder farmers with innovative technological solutions Dimitra is addressing larger, seemingly impossible goals: ending world hunger, creating sustainable farming practices, fighting climate change, and growing national economies around the globe. With smallholder farmers representing nearly 570 million farms in the world and producing over 70% of the world’s produce. This bold step forward for Dimitra promises to have an impact on a global scale.

As they continue to grow our platform. Dimitra is being joined by some of the largest names in the AgTech space. They recently announced many new partnerships such as One Million Avocados, and Redmuch, allowing Dimitra to further develop the platform, increase user-adoption, and expand the utility of the Dimitra Ecosystem.

To learn more about the Dimitra Token as well as the Connected Farmer platform, visit www.dimitra.io.

About AgTech Breakthrough

Part of Tech Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence and recognition platform for global technology innovation and leadership. The AgTech Breakthrough Awards program is devoted to honoring excellence in agricultural & food technologies, services, companies and products around the world. The AgTech Breakthrough Awards program provides a forum for public recognition around the achievements of AgTech companies and solutions in categories including farm management, indoor farming, IoT and robotics, FoodTech, analytics and more. For more information visit AgTechBreakthrough.com.

Dimitra Redmuch – Dimitra Incorporated, a global agtech company on a mission to make its technology available to farmers globally, is working with REDMUCH, an organization in Honduras that, when translated to English, means “Network of Cocoa Woman Farmer and Chocolatiers of Honduras.” The organization currently consists of around 350 farmers, with the majority of them being female. As a whole, they work together to empower and support women in the agriculture industry.

To start with, Dimitra and REDMUCH are analyzing the cocoa industry needs to see where they can make a difference. In addition, the REDMUCH farmers will be using technologies available on Dimitra’s existing platforms, such as Connected Farmer and Connected Coffee. Based on the findings in this partnership, Dimitra is exploring the development of an official Connected Cocoa platform. The new platform will contain all of the necessary technological tools. These tools help cocoa farmers increase yields, mitigate risks, and reduce costs.

The challenges in the cocoa sector currently surround increasing productivity and international sales. An additional challenge includes the certification of organic and fair trade. This partnership is a proactive approach to tackling these industry challenges.

Women in the agricultural workforce

Currently, women make up approximately 45% of the workforce in agriculture around the world. But with gender pay gaps, local policy limitations, and insufficient access to the latest farming technologies, many women in agriculture today remain underpaid.

It is estimated that food production could increase by 30% if female farmers had equal access as males in this vital workforce. To put it another way, combating some of the challenges women face within the industry is one of the reasons this initiative has come to fruition. By helping women overcome the barriers they face and providing them with the tools needed for self-empowerment, we can make a thriving economy a reality.

REDMUCH is a remarkable network for several reasons. First, it is dedicated to the production and transformation of the cocoa industry. As a result, it contributes to increasing productivity and business potential. Just as important, it is a massive advocate for women. They have created a unique and supportive network for Honduran women. More specifically, enabling women who participate in the different links of the cocoa chain to communicate and exchange experiences.

With this in mind, REDMUCH, with the support of national and international organizations, seeks the organizational, social, and economic empowerment of women cocoa producers and processors. They are seeking this so that their participation in the cocoa value chain in Honduras is active, remarkable, and admirable.

What makes Honduras cocoa so special? – Dimitra Redmuch

The famous Honduran chocolate tastes like a mix of chocolate, cinnamon, and pinol. It is proudly derived from 100% Honduran crops, with cocoa being the primary ingredient. The unique chocolate is double certified, organic, fair trade, and made with high quality cocoa. In fact, Honduras, at the Central American level. Stands out for being the country that occupies second place in cocoa production.

Honduras cocoa doesn’t just provide the base for delicious chocolate, but it also provides a series of ecological benefits. Firstly, since the cocoa bean grows from an evergreen tree, planting more cocoa trees means reducing the impact of deforestation. Moreover, the trees transform carbon dioxide into oxygen, generating a healthy ecosystem and promoting biodiversity.

In addition to the ecological benefits, cocoa also benefits the community of Honduras.

The crop is linked to generating direct employment within the community, benefiting many people in the cocoa growing sector. According to the Honduras National Cocoa Chain Committee, there are more than 5,000 producing families. More than 20,000 jobs generated and more than 7,000 hectares planted in nine departments. Furthermore, in addition to cocoa benefiting the economy, it also has health benefits due to its high nutritional value, aesthetics, and cognitive abilities.

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Calvin Funez from Honduras Conecta, Dimitra’s Honduras Partner, says, “We are thrilled to announce this new stepping stone towards the sustainability of cocoa production in Honduras. I foresee a very fruitful partnership with REDMUCH and look forward to beginning our first project together.”

Ana Jency Dubón Macedo, President of REDMUCH, says, “My expectation is that this new technology will give us a great boost in the traceability management of our cocoa producing farms and the added value that we give to our raw material. The positive impact on the agricultural sector is increasing yields, mitigating risks, reducing costs, etc. This improves the quality of life of our producing families. And the positive environmental impact that having this platform brings. I really feel that this brings us a great opportunity and hope for us as REDMUCH from all the links in the cocoa chain.”

Dimitra Cointelegraph East African Farmers – Small farmers in the developing world may be on the cusp of an agricultural breakthrough. With emerging technologies like satellite imagery, drones and machine learning boosting productivity. It’s becoming more viable than ever to sell their produce in places like Western Europe. 

There’s just one catch: avocado farmers in East Africa or coffee growers in Latin America.

Their harvest bounty can’t come at the expense of denuded forests or through the assistance of child labor.

This is where blockchain technology could play a significant role. 

Generating an immutable record – Dimitra Cointelegraph East African Farmers

“Blockchain creates a great solution with an immutable record, particularly [when] combined with mobile” and other emerging technologies, Jon Trask, CEO of Dimitra — an AgTech firm active in 18 countries, which has worked with government agencies in Brazil, India, Uganda and Nepal — told Cointelegraph.

On July 20, Dimitra and One Million Avocados (OMA) — a sustainability-focused tech group. announced a partnership to help Kenyan avocado farmers boost production and quality through cutting-edge emerging technologies, including blockchain.

Dimitra’s multitech platform, which also includes mobile technology, artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things devices. Satellite imaging and genomics, will give small farmers “greater access to solutions to further promote sustainable farming practices. Primarily in pest and disease prevention and data reporting,” according to the press release.

Another key goal of the partnership is to help farmers in East Africa. “overcome traceability issues to ensure maximum value of produce and to align with international regulatory frameworks.”

It’s not just in Kenya or the African continent where this movement. Of agricultural goods from the Global South to the Global North is picking up, either. “We have the same situation in Indonesia, Brazil and a few other Latin American countries,” Trask told Cointelegraph. “When they [farmers] are exporting their produce, they can get more dollars per kilo.”

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Documentation will be critical for would-be exporters, especially with Europe’s new deforestation regulation, which went into force in June. Though its main obligations won’t apply until yearend 2024. Explained Trask, adding: “When an avocado farmer in Kenya goes to export their produce. They need to create certain documentation to show the origin of the produce. It’s easy to create a fraudulent document.”

Enter blockchain, the traceability tool par excellence. “Blockchain-traced data is immutable and can serve as proof for farmers to get certifications or loans,” researcher SzuTung Chen, who recently completed a master’s thesis on coffee growing in Colombia, told Cointelegraph. “A blockchain company is working with carbon credit companies, for example. So that the farmers that are operating sustainable practices can have recorded data of their farming and get additional income.”

One of the biggest problems facing small farmers is information asymmetry, Chen explained. “Coffee brands and roasters capture the highest margin of the coffee price. Because they are closer to the end customers, and can leverage branding and marketing.”

Farmers, on the other hand, don’t know where their coffee goes after they sell it. The destination of their coffee or any coffee market trends. “which keeps them in a vulnerable situation in the supply chain,” she adds.

What blockchain can potentially do, she continued, is facilitate two-way transparency, so not only do stakeholders at the end of the supply chain know where the coffee comes from, but farmers also know what happens in the downstream supply chain.

More powerful than blockchain alone

Dimitra will use satellite imaging technology to help Kenyan farmers prove they aren’t ravaging woodlands to grow their avocados, but this technology can also be used to enhance productivity. By applying machine learning models to satellite imagery, Dimitra has developed algorithms that can pinpoint where more fertilizer is required or where irrigation needs to be stepped up, for example.

A multitech solution may generate synergies too. As Monica Singer, South African lead and senior strategy at ConsenSys, told Cointelegraph. “When you are able to create an ecosystem using mobile and Internet of Things devices and AI, where relevant. It will be a more powerful solution than the blockchain ledger on its own.”

Is this cross-disciplinary approach the wave of the future? “I believe that blockchain can’t do it on its own,” Trask said. “We need to combine technologies in order to provide the services that the agricultural industry needs.”

It may be different in the financial sphere, conceded Trask, who has spent the past six years working on blockchain-related projects — his supply chain-related experience goes back even further. DeFi use cases can often stand on their own, but agriculture is different. “When we combine those technologies — machine learning and visual imaging and drones with blockchain — we can get more bang for the buck.”

The firm has “trained” machine learning models to recognize what a tree looks like using satellite images. A “tree” must have a certain canopy, height, etc.

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Dimitra says Kenyan farmers can double their productivity by applying emerging technologies available today. But how much of that gain derives from digital ledger technology per se?

“It does require a combination of technologies,” answered Trask, but one shouldn’t overlook blockchain’s importance. “We originally did a project in East Africa around cattle,” he said, adding:

Farmers discovered that they could “get 50% to 100% more per pound of beef than they would if they didn’t have a traceability [blockchain] system.”

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If African avocado farmers can meet the European Union’s documentation requirements, “they can get 30%, 50%, maybe even a couple hundred percent more on export.” Further gains from AI-driven enhancements in areas like irrigation and fertilization could result in a further doubling of productivity, he suggested.

Others agree that blockchain technology can become a factor in its own right with regard to the continent’s agricultural sector. Particularly if its record-keeping capabilities are used for quality assurance, as Shadrack Kubyane. Co-founder of South’s Africa’s Coronet Blockchain and eFama App, told Cointelegraph.

The importance of tamper-proof agricultural records was driven home to Kubyane by the world’s worst-ever listeriosis outbreak. Which occurred in South Africa in January 2017 and had a death toll exceeding 200.

That case “continues to be contested in the courts to this day,” he said. The primary suspect remains a major food processing and distribution entity that, to this day, insists it was not the major source of the outbreak. “Had blockchain been in full force across that specific food chain, then the determinant factors and source of the outbreak would have been determined in two-and-a-half seconds or less, rather than waiting six-and-a-half years for a still-pending verdict.”

A “game changer” – Dimitra Cointelegraph East African Farmers

ConsenSys’s Singer is bullish about blockchain’s future use on the continent. “Supply chain technology with track-and-trace functionality using blockchain technology will be a game changer in Africa,” she told Cointelegraph. “We have a high penetration of mobile phones in the continent. We also know that blockchain technology is most useful when there are many intermediaries and when we need to have an audit trail of transactions involving many parties in a transparent manner.”

In Africa, the farmer is often the last to benefit from the sale of produce, “in particular when there is dependency on many intermediaries.” Among other virtues, blockchain tech also helps with “right-sizing intermediaries,” Singer added. Moreover, “We currently have very few sophisticated technologies for track-and-trace.”

Some of blockchain’s key attributes resemble those of traditional African bartering systems, like the one used in the small village where Kubyane grew up.

During the harvest season, crops could be traded for livestock in various quantities as needed. This made for some blockchain-like benefits, including traceability, as “people knew exactly where their food came from”; transparency, since “goods could be exchanged without intermediaries adding unnecessary markups”; and supply chain control, as “many farming families had control over their entire supply chain — however small scale — from seed banks to direct sales to consumers.”

A barter system has many limitations, of course, including a lack of scalability, and Kubyane is against turning back the clock on Africa’s modern food supply chain. But blockchain technology can help with many contemporary challenges, including “food traceability, post-harvest losses, lack of supply chain transparency, unfair trade practices, and monopolies that marginalize small and semi-commercial farmers,” he told Cointelegraph.

Patience is required

Dimitra Cointelegraph East African Farmers – Overall, it may take some time to move the African farming needle. “Certainly, it will take years,” said Trask. For instance, a farm cooperative may come in and sign a contract with Dimitra and say that “they’re going to onboard 30,000 farmers. We probably never get 100% adoption; we may only get 80%.”

Moreover, only 10% of system users may be “power users,” he continued. Some may be participating because food giants like Nestle and others have told them “they had to have traceability,” Trask noted. Other farmers simply don’t want to convert to new technologies.

Another challenge is, implementing these solutions sometimes “requires too many parties to be involved or to learn about the technology,” according to ConsenSys’s Singer.

Solutions must also be accessible, affordable and scalable, added Kubyane. “It is of utmost importance to have patient capital at a significant scale.”

In sum, synergies from melding blockchains with other emerging technologies like satellite imagery, AI, mobile tech and others may one day revolutionize agriculture in the developing world. But until that day arrives, farmers in East Africa and other regions can potentially fetch higher prices for their products by tapping export markets like the EU and North America.

But to secure a permanent place at dining tables in these Western economies, they will have to convince regulators and sustainability-minded publics that their crops weren’t grown by razing woodlands or employing child labor. To accomplish that, private and public blockchains, with their enhanced tracking, tracing and certification capabilities, may prove invaluable.

Dimitra One Million Avocados – BELIZE CITY, BELIZE — Dimitra Incorporated, a global Agtech company on a mission to make its technology available to farmers globally, is collaborating with One Million Avocados (OMA), a startup organization in Kenya, focused on helping the avocado farmers in the region. More specifically, OMA’s goal is to increase the production and quality of East African avocados using trace technology and, ultimately, “saving the world, one avocado at a time.”

Everything you need to know about avocados

So, why do people love avocados? This pear-shaped, green-skinned crop is not just a way to upgrade your dips and spreads, but they are also a nutrient-filled powerhouse. Contrary to popular belief, avocados are actually a fruit, not a vegetable.

An increasing number of people are focusing on a healthy lifestyle, leading to rising demand for nutritious food. As a result, the global avocado market is predicted to expand and grow in the coming years.

Amidst the projected growth of the avocado market, we have the farmers trying to keep up with demand. Before you see an avocado in the produce aisle of your local grocery store or market, a farmer will have gone through many stages to grow it — propagation, planting, farm analysis, post-harvest, and market distribution. Harvesting the fruit requires an enormous amount of labor and water.

To combat this, OMA is utilizing Dimitra’s tech stack to support the OMA farmers. To put it another way, farmers will be able to improve the current practices and create more sustainable farming methods for the future.

Industry challenges farmers face – Dimitra One Million Avocados

Currently, avocado farmers are facing certain challenges with their farming that we want to improve upon.

For example, there are stringent export rules that are in place that make it difficult for a farmer to export their produce with ease, limiting their potential revenue stream. Other common problems that farmers face are pests and diseases that affect the livelihood of their crops.

With Dimitra’s tech stack, combining advanced machine learning and data science methods, farmers can have the tools and insights they need to better understand their pest and disease problems in real time and discover effective solutions for control and management.

What’s more, Dimitra is exploring potential sponsorship opportunities and programs with OMA. For example, looking into helping farmers access financing modules to alleviate financial burdens. Together, they aim to cement Kenya’s position as Africa’s top producer of quality avocados and increase exports globally.

An agtech solution to support farmers

Currently, OMA focuses on traceability, precise farm management, pricing, financial inclusion, and the marketplace to support their farmers. By working with Dimitra, OMA’s farmers can utilize Dimitra’s tech-driven solution curated for the avocado industry. Ab0ve all, by providing farmers with the tools and support needed to succeed, they can increase yields, streamline supply chain processes, and promote sustainable farming practices.

Dimitra continuously develops the Connected Farmer platform to adapt to new regions and crops. Today, the platform is ready for avocados, and Swahili has been added to the growing list of 18 languages. More specifically, the app will be used to support OMA’s farmers with pest and disease prevention and data reporting.

By working with Dimitra, OMA plans to reduce administrative and operational costs associated with farm data registration and collection.

A noteworthy point about this agreement is that OMA uses Dimitra ($DMTR) tokens for transactions, ensuring that farmers also use the token. OMA will convert the One Million Avocados (OMA) farmers’ points accrued for DMTR tokens, consequently increasing awareness of Dimitra tokenization among its farmers.

Actionable insights for decision-making

Reporting is a big factor in a project like this. At Dimitra, we use reports to benefit farmers through advisory services. This way, farmers can apply actionable insights to their farming activities to increase yields, reduce costs, mitigate risks, and improve overall crop health.

More specifically, by increasing crop performance, farm productivity can as much as double in some cases.

Crop management includes factors such as:

• Soil remediation
• Reducing the use of chemicals and fertilizers
• Irrigation and water management
• Weed management

In fact, an example of where Dimitra intervenes is providing recommendations to reclaim soil health and a problem diagnosis on what pests and diseases might be evident. A farmer receives these recommendations through an analytical crop report that can be sent daily, weekly, or monthly.

Prince Victor Femi-Fred, Dimitra’s Director of Sub-Saharan Africa, says, “Dimitra is proud of this partnership as it will help bridge the gap of complicated farming. Providing room for data-driven farming using today’s technology across the Sub-Saharan region of Africa to make a difference. We are excited to work with our new partner and expand Dimtira’s presence in Sub-Saharan Africa.”

Dimitra Day of Cooperatives – The International Day of Cooperatives highlights the growth and progress of cooperatives all across the globe. These organizations help communities build better sustainable practices, shore up financial resources and develop socially progressive approaches to community building.

On this day, it’s important to shine a spotlight on those who are on the ground doing the good work of building a better future for us all.

At Dimitra, we’re committed to helping these communities grow with the latest agricultural technology. Let’s explore why this day is so significant and look at a few projects we’re excited about that support cooperative efforts worldwide.

What Is the International Day of Cooperatives?

On July 1st, the world will celebrate the 101st International Day of Cooperatives. United by the slogan “cooperatives for sustainable development,” this year’s event will highlight how the cooperative approach to working is a critical element necessary to meet the targets set by the U.N. in their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) is one of the oldest and largest business networks in the world, and the drive to meet the SDGs is an intrinsic part of its DNA.

This year, the international community will reach the midpoint of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — with the International Day of Cooperatives highlighting the contribution of cooperatives toward advancing and achieving the SDG.

Why Are Cooperatives So Important?

Cooperatives provide citizens access to vibrant local communities focused on improving the economic, social, cultural and political advancement of their members. These people-centered enterprises offer open-membership models that are owned, controlled and run by and for the members themselves.

As organizations driven by values, cooperatives don’t just think locally but also progress toward internationally agreed principles, like the SDGs. These groups are crucial in fighting against environmental degradation and climate change. In addition, they generate good jobs, contribute to food security and build ethical value chains.

Cooperatives allow people to take an active approach to their economic future. What’s more, since stakeholders don’t hold the reins, the economic and social rewards of their activity.

These businesses have a proven track record of resilience. As a result, this makes them the perfect partner for tackling the major challenges facing the international community and sustainable development efforts.

Dimitra Cooperative Spotlights

As a company on a mission to help farmers across the globe, we’re quick to highlight the good work of the international community here at Dimitra. In the past, we’ve brought awareness to worldwide sustainability efforts like World Water Day and World Population Day.

In the spirit of the International Day of Cooperatives, let’s explore several cooperatives that work with our technology to bring their communities closer together. What’s more, cooperatives create sustainable frameworks for financial, environmental, and social success.

Solok Radjo Cooperative – Dimitra Day of Cooperatives

The Solok Radjo Cooperative is a progressive farming enterprise located in Indonesia. What’s more, it highlights the use of environmentally friendly farm practices to nurture the land under crops. One of the driving forces behind the cooperative is to help farmers learn to optimize the yield of their land. In particular, their focus is on coffee crops.

The cooperative of 3,300 coffee farmers helps members process and market the coffee fruits. In addition to coffee, the Solok Radjo Cooperative raises cattle. They sell the cattle to domestic markets and use the manure locally on plantations to boost soil health.

Using Dimitra’s Connected Coffee Module, farmers can open up new growth opportunities. This includes access to the students, lecturers and professors at Andalas University. Moreover, the goal behind this is digitizing the user experience and improving the platform. Through that, an industry-leading service is created that will benefit other farms.

In fact, by bringing farmers into the digital world through the Connected Coffee Module, the cooperative can accomplish quite a lot. Here are a few more standout benefits:

• The platform opens up new premium export markets, bolstering financial profitability and growth.
• Data collected from the app will find a home in Dimitra’s immutable records. This includes soil test results, satellite imagery and plant and tree coverage from farms.
• Powerful back-end ML and AI systems pull insights from tracked activities in the field. For example, soil sample traits and weather events provide actionable insights for farmers.

As the Head of the Solok Radjo project, Alfadriansyah (Adi), describes, “partnering with Dimitra is important for Solok Radjo to realize an integrated, data-based, sustainable coffee enterprise.”

Ahprocafe

Coffee plays a pivotal role in more than just Indonesia. Located in Honduras, Ahprocafe is an association of more than 100,000 coffee farmers across dozens of local cooperatives.

Their goal is to provide these farmers with state-of-the-art agricultural technology, more specifically, traceability and AI tech. In fact, as Honduras is the fifth largest coffee producer worldwide, this type of tech adoption is essential to shoring up this critical national export.

While we only announced earlier this year, Dimitra and Ahprocafe have big plans for the implementation of the Connected Coffee Platform:

• Provide traceability for coffee grown in the area
• Offer real-time track and trace across the supply chain
• Build transparent and credible businesses
• Attract new sustainability-savvy customers
• Improve pest management efforts
• Reduce climate change effects
• Deliver continuous data collection — informing data-driven decision making

“Ahprocafe seeks to strengthen the business capacity of affiliated coffee cooperatives and generate initiatives that allow us training support and potential market spaces,” says Manfredo Villanueva, Ahprocafe’s General Manager. He continues, “we faithfully believe that the alliance with Dimitra will allow us to achieve our objectives.”

To become involved with Ahprocafe and its work, consider exploring the Dimitra Sponsorship Program for Individuals.

Moving Forward: Dimitra’s Commitment and Mission

Lastly, as we celebrate the International Day of Cooperatives, it’s important to highlight the growth and progress of these organizations as they build a sustainable future for the world. Dimitra is proud to be a technology partner with these cooperatives, helping us both push forward and deliver ethical, sustainable and socially progressive farming practices worldwide.

Dimitra SDG Good Health – Overall health and well-being impact many important aspects of human life, from career and family to socioeconomic experience. Studies have shown that better health and higher levels of perceived well-being are associated with decreased risk of chronic disease and injury, better immunity, and increased longevity.

Although most developed nations have greater access to health resources and best practices, many developing countries around the world do not. In the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to promote worldwide sustainability, Good health and Well-Being ranks third on the list.

Here’s how Dimitra is approaching this non-negotiable health goal, especially as it relates to global agriculture today.

Good Health and Well-Being SDG

3 “Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.”

The SDG objective for Good Health and Well Being not only focuses on health and wellness. It also looks at the ways in which poverty, illness, discrimination, and populations intersect.

This goal coincides with several other SDGs, such as the goals to mitigate unclean water, inequality, and world hunger. With an emphasis on “leave nobody behind,” it also addresses socioeconomic inequalities including education, income, and gender.

Health Education and Improved Access – Dimitra SDG Good Health

Nearly 3.4 billion people around the world live in rural, developing locations without frequent access to clean water or food — the two fundamental requirements for good health. Even when given the resources to improve food and water quality, a lack of proper education surrounding health and well-being presents ongoing risks.

In addition to improving access to health supplies and basic resources, reliable educational frameworks are crucial for enabling effective change. When working toward SDG #3 for Good Health and Well-Being, education and technology are two essential parts of the solution.

Dimitra: Advocating for the Well-Being of Farmers and the World

One of the most practical ways to improve the well-being of a population is to improve access to quality nutrition, adequate healthcare, accurate education, and emerging technologies. With smallholder farms producing nearly one-third of the world’s food, it’s vital that farmers in rural locations have the resources they need to achieve and maintain sustainable health and well-being.

The hard work and harvests of farmers contribute endlessly to the well-being of the world. But smallholder farmers have families to support. They should not have to sacrifice their own health and well-being for the sake of crop production.

Dimitra is dedicated to helping farmers improve their lives as well as their livelihoods. By supplying farmers in developing countries with opportunities, technology, and education, we’ve seen many smallholder farms become more sustainable. The Connected Farmer App, for example, democratizes farming technology by helping farmers learn best practices for business, farm operation, livestock management, and even Track & Trace features. All of these contribute to increased income, fewer risks, and fairer outcomes.

Dimitra’s agricultural technology solutions help farmers and other agricultural workers gain access to food, market opportunities, land protection, and community support. Dimitra also helps to improve SDG 3 by working with students and Universities to teach. And work hands-on with farmers and farming communities. Dimitra continues to work with government and farming organizations to strengthen farm-related jobs while mitigating health risks.

Cointelegraph Dimitra Agtech – Blockchain technology has shown that it can transform data-driven markets, such as finance. However, the technology is industry-agnostic and can be applied across the board in ways specific to each industry. For example, it can be used in agriculture, the oldest industry in the world, and one that’s part of the primary sector of almost every economy globally.

Agricultural technology (AgTech) is growing rapidly to streamline and automate multiple processes. Thanks to a range of innovative technologies, including blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI), and satellite and drone imagery, farmers can scale their businesses, reduce costs and expand their reach.

In recent years, farmers and other industry players have adopted AgTech for a variety of use cases. Including farm management, remote sensing, precision agriculture hardware and automation, among others. North America and Europe are leading the way in AgTech adoption, while Asia remains an untapped market. According to a McKinsey survey published in 2023, more than 60% of polled farmers in Europe and North America are currently — or are planning on — integrating innovative technologies, with Asia lagging by a wide margin at only 9%.

This AgTech firm offers a complete tech stack for farmers and stakeholders

Cointelegraph Dimitra Agtech – AgTech has evolved rapidly, giving today’s farmers access to many offerings. Dimitra, a leading AgTech firm, offers a comprehensive tech stack that utilizes the latest technological innovations in agriculture. Including blockchain, AI, drone imagery, Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and genomics, among others. Dimitra’s tech stack makes it easy to adopt AgTech on any farm. Helping farmers scale their businesses, cut costs and improve the quality of their products. Mike Meurin, the company’s chief digital currency officer, said:

“The true power of Dimitra lies in our entire tech stack. By combining all of the elements of our tech stack and analyzing immense amounts of agricultural data in real time, we can provide farmers with real, actionable insights to improve their crop outputs and, by extension, their lives.”

Dimitra’s flagship product is Connected Farmer, a web and mobile application supporting more than 18 languages and multiple module components to address a wide range of needs. It can help farmers monitor their finances and insurance operations. As well as track crop inputs, fertilizer and regulatory requirements, seed inputs and crop yields.

Farmers can also utilize field-level sensors and integrated satellite imagery, and Dimitra then takes this data for AI-based analytics. Dimitra also incorporates satellite technology and drones for anomaly detection. Providing farmers with real-time insights into crop health and potential issues. In addition, the integration of mobile image analysis allows farmers to capture and classify anomalies directly from their smartphones, enabling real-time monitoring and quick action.

Furthermore, Dimitra’s AI algorithms utilize historical weather and satellite data for yield estimation and forecasting, empowering farmers to make informed decisions based on predictive analytics.

Lastly, the all-in-one platform Livestock Guru empowers livestock farmers to increase the profitability of their businesses for generations to come. The platform provides farmers with various management features, including the EPD Calculator and genetics correlations. As well as animal weight measurement using images. Offering comprehensive support for livestock farmers to optimize breeding programs and feed management.

Making life easier for farmers – Cointelegraph Dimitra Agtech

Dimitra has integrated blockchain technology into its tech stack to improve the lives of farmers around the world. But Dimitra’s business model and multifunctional applications address the increasing demand for innovative technologies while offering solutions at an affordable price. The company’s applications are now being used in 17 countries on different continents, including South America, Africa, and Asia.

Recently, Dimitra partnered with the decentralized data monetization platform Ocean Protocol to enable its users to sell anonymized agricultural datasets through Ocean’s marketplace. This will incentivize farmers to collect and sell data. Enabling market participants to access up-to-date data prices, trends and updates from seed companies, fertilizer companies, and commodity traders.

By integrating blockchain, AI and other technologies into its tech stack, Dimitra aims to empower farmers around the world. Supporting 100,000 users worldwide and running projects in over 40 crops. Dimitra demonstrates its commitment to making a significant impact in the agricultural sector.

Abrafrutas Dimitra – With the mission of providing technology to farmers worldwide, Dimitra, a global agtech company, established a partnership with the Brazilian Association of Fruit and Derivative Producers and Exporters (ABRAFRUTAS) last year. This union aims to explore how Dimitra’s technologies can be used to. Increase efficiency in the production, logistics, and export of Brazilian fruits.

The partnership is seen as crucial for the sector, as Brazil is the world’s third largest fruit producer. Producing over 56 million tons of fruits annually and employing around 16% of all agribusiness workforce in Brazil.

The first action taken to initiate this partnership was to identify ways to predict and detect areas where Citrus Canker occurs. A bacterium that attacks all varieties and species of citrus and is one of the most serious diseases in Brazilian citrus farming.

Citrus canker is one of the most concerning diseases in global citrus farming. As it reduces the productivity of affected plants due to defoliation and premature fruit drop. While it poses no risk to human health, it has a significant negative impact on the commercialization. And transportation of fresh fruits due to the risk of pathogen dissemination. Limiting the sale of production to other regions and countries.

However, despite the disease being easily detectable to the naked eye. The sector lacks a way to optimize the risk analysis and control process that helps reduce the risk of exporting infected fruits, which can affect the entire Brazilian citrus exportation.

With this objective in mind, Dimitra initiated a project to study and analyze ways. To help farmers predict, prevent, and mitigate the risk of Citrus Canker. As well as assist in monitoring this disease, which in 2022 led to the suspension of lemon exports to Europe.

After studying the factors that favor the occurrence of the disease and conducting research in various countries worldwide. Dimitra developed an algorithm that showed 95% accuracy in detecting the disease and the percentage of infected trees, using publicly available data from other countries.

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The next step of the project is to use data from national production to validate the algorithm and. If necessary, refine it for national realities. After this stage, ABRAFRUTAS and Dimitra will seek ways to develop a commercial platform that can assist producers in their mission to combat this pest. The objective is to reduce costs and mitigate risks for the producers.

Eduardo Brandão, Executive Director of ABRAFRUTAS, stated that “the partnership with Dimitra will certainly contribute to solving some technological bottle necks in the sector and, consequently, help maintain and increase our competitiveness in the domestic and international markets.” The partnership with Dimitra will allow ABRAFRUTAS to be at the forefront of agricultural technology and, thus, achieve its goals of feeding the world.

Diego Costa, Director of Dimitra for Latam, said. “We are honored to support ABRAFRUTAS’ goals and assist them in their mission to feed the world. They are leaders in the fruit sector and an important partner in Dimitra’s expansion in South America.”

ABRAFRUTAS and Dimitra will continue to explore other bottle necks and identify effective solutions to improve the production. Logistics, and export of Brazilian fruits to meet the needs of consumers worldwide. Dimitra will continue to utilize its innovative technology to help Brazilian fruit farming. Remain among the world’s top producers and further expand Brazilian exports.

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