One of the most difficult goal for agri-business companies have been to deliver products with desired characteristics, qualities, quantities and prices on consistent basis. This has not been possible in conventional agricultural, but to achieve this objective in organic agriculture, the stakeholder will have to make extra efforts. This platform has been developed to help these initiatives.
In conventionally produced food products, right from the beginning i.e. at the farm level onwards, through out the entire value chain, it is treated as a commodity. In case of organic agriculture, the data management at farm level, provides the basis for monitoring the production management. IT tools are now being developed to do this work in most efficient manner and at a significantly lower costs. Once it begins at production level, in the second step, the intermediaries can also adopt similar approach, methodology and tools. This will also offer additional value addition opportunities for the trade channel partners.
Solutions
To begin with, very sophisticated but very-very user friendly tools are being made available to the stakeholders in Organic Agri-business Value Chain. These solutions are broadly divided into Agriculture and Business Domains. Some of the popular solutions demanded by the stakeholders are as follows:
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