Guatemala: Farmforce, a revolutionary tool for agricultural management

The Agritrade fair, held in Guatemala at the end of last month, brought together members from all over the sector and presented many new innovations. One of them is Farmforce, a new farm management tool. Farmforce is a revolutionary software that helps producers of all types of crops with their traceability, from the field to the consumers, and offers many other advantages.

Farmforce is made up of an application for mobile devices, which can also be used without an internet connection, and a web page that is stored on international servers, so companies do not have to invest in technology to use it anywhere that they are. This tool makes it possible to centralize in a single application all types of agricultural processes, such as the management of small farmers and their individual production data.

Currently, international regulations require producers to implement standards, controls, and procedures to address issues such as traceability, preventive controls or removal of contaminated products, areas in which Farmforce is very useful, as it allows exporters to organize and supervise farmers, both large and small, as well as their activities, their use of pesticides and fertilizers and traceability, all at a distance and in real time. It can also manage product inventories and store data to see how crops perform over the seasons.

When used on mobile devices, it has the great advantage of interconnectivity: used on a mobile phone it can read labels and bar codes, take photographs of the state of a crop or terrain, survey or even link the device with a portable printer to print receipts directly in the field. In addition, it can be used to record all the training given to producers, which helps producers obtain certifications, such as GlobalGAP or Fair Trade, and have a much greater control of producers in the field of traceability. Finally, it is possible to use it to create databases to forecast the harvest and to know in real time at which stage the production is, in order to clarify and optimize the entire supply chain.

To organize all this relevant information to the supply chain, Farmforce is much better than paper systems, as they can easily be mislaid and are not always available when the data is needed (for example, in the field), not to speak of the chaos there is when you have a portfolio of more than 50,000 producers.

Juan Gabriel
Farmforce
E: juan.gabriel@farmforce.com
www.farmforce.com/es