Streamlining Farm to Fork
Empowering Producers, Processors, and Procurement for Sustainable Food Solutions.
AgriConnect Portal
Our platform offers a seamless user experience through both a web portal and mobile app, facilitating the application and processing of loan products from over 40 banks specializing in the agriculture and allied sectors. Users can access comprehensive information such as guidelines and model DPRs for all available loan products.
Key Features:
✅ Application Management: Users can apply for loans directly through our user-friendly web portal or mobile app.
✅Real-Time Application Tracking: Applicants can track the progress of their applications in real-time. They receive updates on which bank is currently handling their application and the next steps in the process.
✅ Proactive Notifications: Applicants receive timely notifications via SMS and/or email about the status of their applications as they progress through each stage, including notifications for required actions on their part.
✅ End-to-End Online Processing: The platform supports end-to-end processing of loan applications online, ensuring efficiency and convenience for users and banks alike.
✅ Centralized Access: Our portal serves as a single point of access for all loan products offered by banks catering to farmers and agri-preneurs across the agriculture and allied services sector.
Advanced Pest Surveillance and Early Warning System
The ancient Egyptians were among the earliest civilizations to recognize the necessity of pest management in agriculture. As early as 3000 BC, they employed cats to safeguard their grain stores from rats. Since then, pest management has remained crucial for agricultural safety. Throughout history, devastating outbreaks of pests, particularly fungi and locusts, have ravaged vast swathes of land, leading to widespread famines and human migrations. Events such as the potato blight in Ireland during the 1800s and the Wheat Rust epidemic in the US in the 1950s have underscored the severe economic impact of such outbreaks.
Today, with advancements in agricultural practices and the intensification of farming methods, the ability to monitor and predict pest outbreaks is more critical than ever for both primary producers and governments. The sheer scale of agricultural lands, the diversity of crops, and the specificity of diseases affecting each crop necessitate ICT interventions provided by AgriTech to find effective solutions.
In response to these challenges, AgriTech leverages advanced technologies to track and forecast pest outbreaks, enabling proactive management strategies that enhance agricultural resilience and productivity.
Elhunt has developed a comprehensive platform that utilizes ICT to seamlessly integrate Field Surveillance Data, Forecasting, Risk Assessment models, and a communication platform for all stakeholders. This platform offers a robust solution for effectively managing pest surveillance and assessment processes. Key modules of the platform include:
✅Data Collection Module:
This module offers real-time information on the type, severity, and incidence of specific pests. It includes built-in access for researchers, field surveillance agents, and pest management experts, facilitating seamless data upload and retrieval as needed.
✅ Data Analysis Module:
This module identifies risk areas for specific crops and pests. Utilizing AI and machine learning, it maps geo-tagged survey data and atmospheric weather data to develop predictive models. These models are visualized on GIS-based maps to highlight potentially vulnerable areas.
✅ Research & Development:
This module monitors the behavior of pests and identifies new and virulent strains of fungi, viruses, and bacteria. Data collected from the Data Collection Module can be transmitted to authorized labs for further testing and analysis. Published results are then communicated to sample collectors, farmers, and other stakeholders.
✅ Advisory Communications:
This module disseminates data and models to various stakeholders, providing actionable recommendations on identifying, treating, and preventing the spread of diseases.
Agricultural Producer Registration System
To ensure food security, a robust supply chain is essential, which requires a system capable of tracking both supply and demand within the ecosystem. Central to the supply side is the establishment of a comprehensive registry of food producers in the region. This registry not only records their names and addresses but also provides detailed insights into their land holdings and crop cultivation practices. Such information is crucial for implementing effective interventions during the pre-harvest processes.
In emerging economies, achieving food security involves addressing gaps such as procuring agricultural produce from farmers, managing the supply chain, and enhancing transparency in the system.
The Producer Registry is a technology intervention designed to support agencies and organizations in developing a database of all producers within their operational areas. It includes comprehensive profiles detailing who the producers are, what they cultivate, and their production capacities. This database enables accurate forecasting of seasonal or annual yields. Moreover, its integration capabilities with public databases—including land records, weather forecasts, and agricultural intelligence systems—enable procurement agencies to estimate the requirements of the entire value chain. It also provides validated data to government agencies for their welfare programs.
To facilitate seamless implementation, the product includes the following modules:
✅Digitization Module:
This initial phase involves farmers and sharecroppers registering their demographics, land holdings, and bank details. The system generates unique identification numbers for producers within the state.
✅ Land Verification Module:
Entered land records undergo automatic verification against an existing digitized land records database. If unavailable, the module offers a manual verification process. Verified data can seamlessly integrate with other systems such as Procurement and Supply Chain Systems.
✅ Bank Verification Module:
Farmers’ bank records are verified through an automated system with respective banks. Depending on the country, verification may involve linking to unique identification numbers like Aadhar Number in India.
✅Planning & Forecasting Module: Utilizing the verified data, this module generates customized Management Information System (MIS) reports for procurement agencies, government departments, and food processing units. These reports facilitate planning and forecasting of farm produce availability for stakeholders.
Soil Management Information System
It is widely acknowledged that soil plays a critical role in supporting food production, as food availability hinges on soil health. Healthy soil is essential for food security and nutrition because any deficiency in the 15 essential nutrients required for plant growth can limit crop yields. With the global population expected to surpass 9 billion by 2050, coupled with challenges such as competition for land and water resources and the impacts of climate change, the future of food security depends on increasing yields and improving food quality using existing agricultural lands. Agricultural production must rise by 60 percent globally—and nearly 100 percent in developing countries—by 2050 to meet projected food demand alone (FAO, UN).
Sustainable soil management offers a promising solution, potentially increasing food production by up to 58 percent (FAO, UN). Soil testing is a crucial component of effective soil management, recognized as a reliable scientific tool for assessing soil’s ability to supply plant nutrients. An integrated soil information system that consolidates soil testing data is invaluable for informing policies, interventions, and recommendations. This system is vital for all stakeholders in the food industry, from individual farmers to institutional growers and government bodies.
The Soil Information System is a centralized, integrated information system that consolidates data from soil surveys, sample testing, analysis, and final output generation for soil mapping and recommendations. It facilitates efficient monitoring by providing easy access to comprehensive soil information.
Below is an overview of the system’s workflow:
✅Form Designing & Surveyor Tagging:
The process begins with the system enabling the design of survey forms featuring predefined questions through a dynamic application. Surveyors are tagged, and specific locations for soil sample collection are assigned.
✅ Data Collection & Soil Sampling:
Survey data is collected and entered into a mobile app form. Each soil sample is assigned a unique identity code for archival, reference, and potential retesting purposes. The system captures real-time longitude and latitude coordinates to track sample collection accuracy relative to assigned locations.
✅Soil Archival Management:
The system maintains records of soil archives, facilitating tracking of transaction history for each soil sample taken for retesting.
✅Lab Testing & Soil Analysis: Samples undergo laboratory testing to analyze soil type specific to the area. Results provide insights into various soil parameters such as pH levels, texture, structure, and elemental composition.
Certified Seed Verification System
Seed Quality Assurance System
Achieving a successful harvest hinges on various factors: soil quality, temperature, water availability, fertilizers, and notably, the seeds used. Providing producers and farmers with the best seed varieties is crucial for optimizing the food production value chain. A major challenge in achieving high farm yields has been the availability of quality seeds. Low-quality seeds not only reduce yield per hectare but also result in substandard produce, vulnerable to diseases and pests.
Seed Certification is a globally recognized system aimed at preserving genetic purity and seed identity. Legally sanctioned in most countries, it serves as a prominent quality control mechanism, ensuring seeds are of superior genetic stock and comply with established standards.
This certification holds paramount importance for all stakeholders in the food industry. Farmers and institutional growers benefit from higher yields and resistance to pests, while procurement agencies can rely on certified quality produce. Government bodies and food processing industry leaders also rely on seed certification to ascertain produce quality.
To enhance the certification process and integrate all farmers into the system, automation and IT play pivotal roles. Streamlining the process and making it accessible to producers is essential for compliance. Technologies like Blockchain further ensure transparency across the entire farm-to-fork value chain.
The Seed Certification System by Elhunt revolutionizes the certification process, enhancing efficiency and transparency. As a core component of our AgriTech solution suite, it provides an end-to-end solution for certification, ensuring stakeholders have instant access to critical information.
Key Modules of the Seed Certification System include:
✅Certification Module:
The registration module allows producers interested in certifying their seeds to register and access the system.
✅Seed Producer Module:
This module enables registered producers to perform key functions in the certification process. Producers can request field inspections to verify compliance with certification parameters or request re-inspections, view reports, and apply for import and export notifications.
✅Seed Distributor Module:
This module notifies distributors about registrations and renewals, and facilitates management of payment receipts.
✅Seed Grower Module:
Seed growing entities receive critical notifications through this module. They can register, apply for renewals, and access inspection reports.
Unified Farmer Registration System
To tackle these challenges, a significant investment approach involves integrating geographically dispersed agricultural markets into a unified online platform. This initiative aims to consolidate distant markets onto a single platform, enhancing market competition, transparency in price discovery, and ultimately improving farmers’ profitability. With approximately 60 percent of India’s population engaged in agriculture, contributing around 18 percent to the GDP, and the agricultural sector’s share in Gross Value Added (GVA) showing positive trends, such initiatives are crucial. The government’s allocation of Rs 1.33 lakh crores for agriculture in the recent union budget underscores the importance of advancing agricultural markets through digital connectivity.
Why Farmer Registries are Essential?
✅Facilitating Government Services: A farm-business registration system streamlines access to government services.
✅Verification for Eligibility: Government departments can verify farm-business eligibility for various programs and subsidies.
✅Policy Formulation:Farmer registries aid in framing farm-centric, outcome-driven policies.
✅Poverty Reduction:They contribute to rural poverty reduction by ensuring policies are accurate, cost-effective, and transparent.
✅Targeted Social Safety Nets: Farmer registries enable better targeting of populations in need by simplifying the process of assigning social safety measures to vulnerable rural areas.
✅Preventing Fraud: They help filter out fraudulent farmers and ensure only legitimate beneficiaries receive support.
✅Integrated Digital Ecosystem: Creating an integrated digital ecosystem for stakeholders across the farm-to-fork chain.
Key Features:
✅Unique Identity Proof: Provides farmers with a unique identity proof for official transactions.
✅Instant Eligibility Check: Enables quick verification of farmers’ eligibility for government schemes.
✅Identification of Beneficiaries: Helps in identifying genuine beneficiaries for targeted support.
✅Detection of Anomalies: Facilitates detection and prevention of fraudulent activities.
✅Verified Farmers’ Database: Maintains a verified and updated database of farmers.
✅Scheme Monitoring: Supports scheme monitoring and evaluation by extension workers.
✅One-stop Portal: Acts as a comprehensive platform for farmer registration and management.
✅Verification by Extension Workers: Allows extension workers to verify and update farmers’ details seamlessly.
This integrated approach ensures efficient management of farmer information, enhances transparency, and supports effective policymaking in agricultural development.
Integrated Platform for Agriculture and Allied Services
Agricultural development stands as the most potent intervention to eradicate extreme poverty, foster shared prosperity, and sustainably feed a projected population of 9.7 billion by 2050. Economic growth driven by agriculture is pivotal, yet it faces risks from various shocks—from pandemic disruptions to climate extremes, pests, and conflicts. The well-being of farmers and farm productivity are fundamental to a nation’s development. Farmer empowerment is thus a top priority for any government striving to advance the nation.
As underscored in SDG indicator 2.4.1, the economic resilience and well-being of farmers are essential for sustainable farming practices. Efforts are underway to enhance farmer income, ensure their security and technological proficiency, advance agricultural research and education, and bolster farm infrastructure. Government schemes and subsidies play a crucial role in supporting farmers to establish or expand their agricultural enterprises. However, effective scheme delivery faces challenges, especially in accurately identifying genuine beneficiaries:
✅Disaggregated Data: There is a lack of a unified data source on farmers and schemes, leading to data fragmentation.
✅Authentication Challenges: Farmers often need to authenticate multiple times to access scheme benefits.
✅Lack of Unified Portal: Absence of a seamless platform where farmers and agriculture stakeholders can apply for approvals and access scheme benefits efficiently.
A Unified Portal that consolidates various agriculture and allied services and schemes into a single platform, with comprehensive information and eligibility criteria, serves as a crucial facilitator for farmers. Such integration not only empowers farmers but also provides the government with a comprehensive database. Aggregated data enables policymakers to formulate targeted policies, schemes, and interventions with precision, ensuring effective implementation and attainment of desired goals.
Features
✅Online Application: Farmer-facing web portal and mobile app enabling application for all schemes and services in the agriculture and allied sector. Provides comprehensive guidelines and eligibility criteria.
✅Status Tracking: Applicants can monitor real-time application status via the portal or app using their mobile number, with visibility into processing stages and responsible officers.
✅Proactive Status Notification: Automatic SMS or email notifications inform applicants of application progress, approvals, rejections, and required actions.
✅Single Window Service: Integration of essential service applications (e.g., water supply, electricity connection) from various government departments, simplifying processes for farmers.
✅Online Application Processing: Enables end-to-end processing of applications, including uploading verification reports and geo-tagged photographs, by block, district, and state-level officers via the web portal and mobile app.
✅Reports & Dashboards: Scheme-wise reports and dashboards for department officials to monitor application status and delivery performance in respective jurisdictions. Real-time data access aids in resolving implementation bottlenecks and informed decision-making.
Benefits
The Farmer Facing Scheme System, designed and implemented as a user-friendly web-based platform, enhances transparency and accessibility of government services for farmers:
✅Unified Portal: Centralizes all schemes and subsidies, offering farmers easy access to information and applications.
✅Comprehensive Information: Provides a one-stop source for detailed scheme descriptions and updates.
✅Transparency and Accountability: Monitors and analyzes scheme-wise allocation and disbursement, ensuring transparency in fund utilization.
✅Decision Support System: Maintains and enhances existing systems for informed policy decisions and resource allocation.
✅Integrated Farmer Database: Integrates with Aadhaar-authenticated farmer profiles (e.g., Krushak Odisha), ensuring data accuracy and uniqueness.
✅Dynamic Workflow and Notification Management: Configures workflows and manages notifications dynamically to streamline processes.
✅Integration with Key Systems: Links seamlessly with e-Sign, Krushak Odisha, Service Plus, Apicol, iFMS/PFMS for comprehensive service delivery.
✅Security Assurance: Regular security audits through CERT-In empanelled agencies to safeguard data and operations.
✅Centralized Help Desk: Provides dedicated support for farmers, enhancing communication and coordination.
✅Process Automation: Automates subsidy disbursement processes, improving efficiency and reducing manual intervention.
This unified platform revolutionizes farmer interaction with government schemes, promoting efficiency, transparency, and responsiveness in service delivery across the agriculture sector.