The integration between KisanHub and FarmPlan’sGatekeeper is expected to improve data connectivity across the agri-supply chain, offering a single source of data for making informed decisions
KisanHub product head Jonny Kerley. (Credit: PRNewsfoto/Proagrica and KisanHub.)
KisanHub has integrated its supply chain platform with Farmplan’s Gatekeeper farm management solution, enabling growers to import crop data.
With the integration, growers can now permit and import data selected crop zones and operations from FarmPlan’s Gatekeeper farm management solution onto KisanHub platform.
As a division of Proagrica, Farmplan offers workflow and insight solutions for growers and provides data exchange capability to securely deliver data.
The key to this integration is including crop boundaries from Gatekeeper into the KisanHub platform, a pre-requisite to access other platform tools.
The tools include a crop monitoring app, quality tracking with market suitability, pest and disease predictions and yield models.
The data integration can help growers to make informed decisions
By importing planting/sowing and harvest dates from the crops, which when combined with other platform data, offers the basis for crop management and procurement planning, improving operational efficiency, while allowing growers to make more informed decisions.
KisanHub product head Jonny Kerley said: “Software systems in the form of point solutions have been used by the agricultural industry since the early 2000s and this process has accelerated in recent years with a number of agri-tech companies providing different solutions. These point solutions, for example a soil moisture sensor, rarely integrate or talk to each other, reducing accessibility.
“KisanHub’s horizontally scaled platform brings these data sets together in one place, allowing more accurate and informed decisions across the supply chain. Similar to the computing industry in the early 1980s, agri-tech solutions will transition from vertically integrated to horizontally scaled systems.”
Kerley continued saying: “This will revolutionise the agricultural industry, allowing easier exchange of information and standardisation across multiple systems. We are extremely excited at KisanHub to be an integral part of this journey, alongside precision farming and crop management systems such as Farmplan’s Gatekeeper.
“With the ease of use provided by Proagrica to connect and move this data between Gatekeeper and KisanHub it becomes easier to create connections saving both time and money.”
Jonny’s role at KisanHub is to design the development of the software in crop intelligence and data insights, to ensure that it meets the requirements of the agricultural industry and offers solutions to the problems faced by customers at the ground-level.
Proagrica precision agriculture development director Alistair Knott said: “This type of collaboration is exactly what is needed to ensure the value from systems data is scalably realised. Growers, agronomists and other service provider systems will, through choice or functionality, be different.
“Each has its place in the helping growers to be more productive and so more profitable, and so it is our responsibility to make our growers experience as easy and simple as possible.
“Gatekeeper, as the backbone IT system to so many growers, is ensuring that crop optimisation solutions such as KisanHub can seamlessly fit into that IT infrastructure.”