For decades, farmers and agricultural stakeholders have faced multiple stumbling blocks ranging from crop and resource management to dealing with the effects of climate change. With advanced farm ERP, agriculture can take a leap to an intelligence-based platform, efficiently designed to help the stakeholders shape a better future.
What is ERP and how is It Related to Farming?
In simple terms, Enterprise Resources Planning (ERP) is a software application that helps enterprises efficiently manage their core business functions in an integrated system. By extension, agribusinesses use farm ERP solutions to manage their farms, farmer networks, and other resources better, all the way from crop production to distribution.
Farm ERP solutions today are designed using modern technologies to provide significant benefits of smart farming, including extensive automation, greater operational efficiency, and intelligent insights based on a centralized database. Together, these outcomes translate to cost savings and enhanced productivity for the stakeholders across various departments.
In addition, farm ERP maps data from all quarters for a thorough analysis and makes them readily available for quicker and smarter decision-making. It helps safeguard the stakeholders from multiple agricultural risks, such as low yield, inefficient resource management, roadblocks in supply chain management, and financial risk.
Agriculture undergoes multiple challenges due to various factors, including vagaries of the weather in the region, global warming, diseases and pest infestations, water stress, and satisfying the rising consumer demands and changing tastes. When producers do not have the power to control such external factors, they need to look deeper at other aspects of agriculture. It includes production, administration, and support. Here is where farm ERP comes into the picture.
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Benefits of Farm ERP-based Technologies
With Cropin, you can know the risks, opportunities, and requirements at the right time. SmartFarm, Cropin’s next-generation farm management software, allows managing farming essentials skillfully.
Below are a few benefits of using a farm ERP solution:
- Share weather-forecast-based crop advisories to farmers.
- Arrive at the most suitable crop for the soil type and geographic location.
- Automate crop advisories, package of best practices, activity plan notifications, and more for your field staff.
- Ensure maximum utilization of resources for a higher net profit margin.
- Keep track of your production with near-real-time insights.
- Manage field officer productivity and automate workflows.
- Monitor crop health and lifecycle stages in real-time.
- Leverage tonnage insights at crop variety level to keep tabs on yield and output
- Get harvest date insights for single cropping or multi-cropping systems.
- Map activity plan to be followed throughout the cultivation process.
- Manage and streamline harvest collection using pre-defined SKUs (stock-keeping units).
Amplifying Business Values in Farming with ERP
There are various additional benefits of using Enterprise Resources Planning platforms. These include but are not limited to:
- Profit maximization: Advancements in technologies enable the enterprise to drive efficiency and productivity, which can save time and resources and, hence, maximize ROI.
- Reduced human-error index: Digitalization of day-to-day processes using farm ERP solutions eliminates paperwork and subsequent possibilities of human error and data loss while enhancing productivity effectively.
- Minimum resource usage, maximum productivity: ERP solutions allow a systematic approach to managing resources. Remote monitoring of plot performance, clear activity plans and PoP (package of packages), easier scheduling and allocation of machinery and equipment, and reduced need for human labor: the list is endless.
- Enhanced risk management: ERP software like SmartFarm increases visibility and traceability along the production and supply chain. It enables agribusinesses to implement sound safety and quality compliance mechanisms, too. Timely alerts allow stakeholders to quickly identify vulnerabilities, including unfavorable weather conditions, potential disease outbreaks, or pest infestations, which decreases their response time to impending crises.
- Optimized supply chain management: SmartFarm summarizes the performance of each farm plot through insights on yield estimation, crop health, crop growth stage, and more. Together, they provide a fair idea of the expected output and warn stakeholders about a potential reduction in crop yields, allowing them to take corrective steps that boost yield output and economic gains. Further, they enable proactive harvest and post-harvest decision-making (resource allocation, post-harvest handling, storage, transportation) and ensure effective downstream planning.
Managing Land with Advanced Farm Management Software
How can you utilize Cropin’s farm ERP in the best possible way? Take a look:
- Farm and Farmer management: SmartFarm facilitates agribusinesses to create comprehensive digital records of the farms and farmers associated with them. It includes accurate geo-tagging and area audit of the farm plot, which provides the exact location and acreage of the piece of land. In addition, it also comprises personal details of the farmer with proof of identity, the crop and crop variety they cultivate, and images of the farm plot. Among many benefits, such farm/farmer records enable detailed profiling of the asset and the farmer, ensure farmers are provided with apt advisories for crop production and permit farm-to-fork traceability.
- Crop and Plantation Management: Getting maximum yield from a crop depends on making the right decision right from the pre-sowing stage. It includes understanding which seed to plant for the existing soil and environmental conditions, the right sowing window, and the most favorable weather conditions. The most appropriate use of fertilizers and pesticides and proper nurturing procedures of the plants are also equally critical for crop vitality. The AI-based ERP platform of Cropin efficiently addresses these aspects.
- Resource Management: The main factor that reinforces profit maximization is adequate utilization of resources to produce greater yields. SmartFarm helps meet crop quality and quantity benchmarks with efficient resource usage.
Farm management software is indispensable as a modern means to streamline agricultural management and maximize production. The day is not very far when the agriculture industry will turn into data-based agribusiness. For that matter, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning software are the prime tools to satisfy the requisites and help attain sustainability in agriculture.
Go beyond Farm ERP with the Cropin ag-ecosystem intelligence platform
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