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Precision Agriculture

Empowering farmers with a suite of hardware and software technology solutions to support their farming process, help make business decisions & improve sustainability. The solutions will be linked to a central dashboard for each farmers, that feeds important food security data to MME & other govt stakeholders

Tags:

Farmers

Key benefits

Increase agricultural output

by providing farmers intelligent tools that help them ensure the produce has optimal growing conditions

Reduce manual labour effort & operational costs

through automation and savings in utility consumption

Support govt. contingency planning

with consolidated data on field usage & crop planning on a national level

Related personas

Farmer

Khalid

Age

42
Job Title

Agribusiness consumer
Country

About Khalid

Khalid produces tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers & eggplant. 17% of vegetables consumed in Qatar are sourced locally and he thinks that the local market size will be on the rise in the near future. Soil in Qatar may not be very fertile, and the water quality is not always great, but as agricultural technologies keep improving, there is no reason for Khalid’s business not to grow.

Income Level

50% Income Level

Tech Knowledge

90% Tech Knowledge

User Journey

1

Khalid logs into the Agribusiness Dashboard on his tablet and receives general information on weather and soil that day
2

He sends a robot to collect updated crop data from the fields and requests a new report regarding his upcoming harvests
3

He notices a crop might be ready for early harvesting and requests further historical data related to the crop in question
4

He analyzes different scenarios and financial outcomes in the Agribusiness Dashboard
5

He takes the decision to harvest based on the size of the current crops matching those from previous seasons

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Potential Service Features

Automated data upload
Manual processes automation
Agribusiness decision support

National Visibility of Production

Implementation Analysis

IMPLEMENTATION TIMELINE

progress 80%

Short
Medium
Long

TECHNOLOGY COMMERCIAL VIABILITY

progress 50%

Currently Viable
Viable in Short Term
Viable in Long Term

REGULATORY CONDUCIVENESS

progress 80%

Favorable
Challenging
Complex

INVESTMENT REQUIREMENTS

progress 80%

Small
Medium
Large

Key Implementation Consideration

Vendor Selection Due diligence to identify ones with high competence in UI/UX, sensor & automated aggrotech, big data analytics, & agribusiness analytics

Discovery Phase Research phase to identify existing APIs that can be built on, local farming practices & tech, and enablers for use case development

Development Collaborative process with farmers & MME to roll out hardware & software to farmers and a central platform for MME for national monitoring

Testing & Monitoring Hardware maintenance & UX testing to optimize app layout for farmers’ ease, and dashboard features as per MME’s feedback