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ProAgria Plant Production Services. Plant Production 1990-2010. Food consumption per capita is stable Amount of cultivated is quite stable Amount of farms has declined over 30% during last 20 years Bigger farms More land is hired. Advisory services before EU (Plant production services).
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Plant Production 1990-2010 • Food consumption per capita is stable • Amount of cultivated is quite stable • Amount of farms has declined over 30% during last 20 years • Bigger farms • More land is hired
Advisory services before EU(Plant production services) • Cultivation plans (= only fertilizing plans) • Plant rotation plans • Collecting soil samples (to be analysed) • Farm´s tax accountings • General advisory work • Fairly big share of public financing to advisory work
Advisory Services in the beginning of EU membership • Cultivation plans (more exact according to new regulations) • Planning of farm economy = subsidy system optimizing • Enourmous coaching and training projects (advisors and farmers; financing in projects) • Collecting soil samples (to be analysed)
Advisory Services nowadays Exact cultivation planning according to environmental subsidy act Advisory on cultivation accountings (compulsory notes) Yearly filling of subsidy applications Economical accounting and planning
Software DevelopmentPlant production and Farm economy-branches Pertti Savela
”All” sectors • Plant production • Cultivation plans, accounting • Farm economy • Tax accounting • Result analysing • Long term planning • Animal husbandry • Milk farms • Pigs • Sheep
Trend • Development trend • Central computers with ”dummy” clients • PC-Software (DOS > Windows) • Network softwares • Mobiles • Handheld computers with PC-software • Mobile phones with network softwares • Databases • Storages • Enables creating of netsoftwares
Plants Animals Forestry Entrepreneur IT – splitted model • Data in various ”chambers” • No possibilities to unite data • Owners of data (farmers, advisors) have no possibilities to ”discuss” with same data Production data Economy
IT – unified model • Production and economical data of various sectors should be: • Possible to combine • Collected in same place • Homogenous • Farmer and advisor have same basic ”knowledgebase”; so advisor can concentrate on fundamental matters Production data Economy
Client register Agr.plot data bank Economy data bank Meter data bank Animal data bank Basis • Data banks containing real data from farms • Plans • Monitoring (economy, amounts, yield quality etc.) farms • Data is used to • Benchmarking • Improving farm´s actions • Increasing knowledge • ProAgria DataWareHouse as final goal DataWareHouse
MK-tsto Client register Agr.plot data bank Economy data bank Wisu Wakka XXX bank Animal data bank Elmer Ammu WinPig Collecting data • PC softwares • Wisu, Wakka, Likwi, Mittari • Ammu, WinPig • Advisors and farmers use same softwares
MK-tsto WisuMobile WebWakka WebWisu Client register Agr.plot data bank Economy data bank Wisu Wakka XXX bank Animal data bank Likwi Elmer Ammu WinPig Collecting data • Internal webservices • Services using ProAgria data banks and creating additional data • WebWisu • Farm Index • Wide range of applications Mobile
Connecting cluster Admin Edu Com • External webservices • Soil analysis • Yield quality analysis • Administration • Commerce • Food industry • Weather stations • Maps • etc. MK-tsto WisuMobile Science WebWakka WebWisu Client register Agr.plot databank Economy databank Wisu Wakka XXX bank Animal databank Likwi Elmer Ammu WinPig Mobile
Creating comprehensive IT-system takes years and years – and it never gets ready! New needs always appear, used technologies gets out of date, new technologies will arise…..but in some cases miracles can be done in short periods! Developmentprocess
Process Description -ProAgria Crop – IT-services IT-servicesteam Developmentproposals and updatingplans Proposal and Description of implemetation Negotiations Decisions of implementation IT-budget → Acceptance in board of directors Implementationdescription (for programmers) Databasechangesorupdating Testing - programmers, IT-team, end-users Acception Manuals and othersupportigmaterials Training • Bitcomp / MLOY • Development proposals • Preliminary clarification of task´s • Resource needs • Possible implementation alternatives • - Budgeting • Implementation with own financing • Programming • Testversion • Corrections • To production • ProAgria Crop • Conclusions of proposals and statement of actions • Plan of operation • - Development of services • Training of software and service • Communication and marketing • Implementation • Uprisingneeds • Proposals from • Farmers • Advisors • Various ProAgria servicesgroups • Pro PlantEconomygroup • Changes in • Regulations • Common updates in parametertables or
Time schedules Acceptableskills 8X % Acceptableskills 7X % Acceptableskills 9X % Degree of utilizationincreases New needs = New features, new techniques Corrections Parameterupdates New needs = New features, new techniques Corrections Parameterupdates
Marketing • Beforehand • Planning softwares so that they are solid part of ProAgria services • During life cycle • Ads on magazines, internet,… • Editored articles in magazines, internet,… • Information about training courses and so on…
Support • Training courses • Comprehensive on screen manuals • Latest news in • For advisors in ProAgria Intranet and in mailing lists • For farmers in ProAgria Web pages • Free HelpDesk in office hours • Possibility for Remote services (HelpDesk – Client)
WebWisu New model to operate
Technical environment • Internet • System is basically • Not dependent from operating system (Windows, MacOS, Linux) • Not dependent from web browser (IE, Mozilla, Netscape, Firefox, Opera, Safari,….) • Problems may exist in various systems! • WebWisus working companion in mobiles is • Mobile phones with Java possibilities • No direct use of WebWisu with mobilebrowsers is not supported
Content of WebWisu • Cultivation bookkeeping • Basic data, plot data • Soil analyses • Sowings • Fertilizing, manure, liming • Field observations • Plant protection • Harvesting • Storages, Sales parcels, Quality data • Cultivation planning • Fertilizing, manure, liming • Map interface (option) • Economical planning and accounting of plant production (option)
Agricultural plot databank Cultivation data Cultivation economy
Agricultural plot databank • Input data bases on • plotwise bookkeeping of actions done during cultivation year • done by farmers or advisors • economy accounts of plant production • done by advisors
Agricultural plot databank • Basic interface and reports • Quartiles • Gross margins • Classifications • Product safety
Selections • Selecting classificator - Safety classificators
Reports • Quartile reports by • yield amount • yield quality • economical key figures • ……. etc. • Economy by • plants • various factors • varieties, etc
Reports • Classification reports • varieties • soil types • farm sizes • areas; RAC, subsidy zone, cultivation zone; municipalities, etc.. • Graphics • basic; all tables, all variables
Other functions • Farms own data • plots • fertility • tillage • sowings • fertilizing • plant protection • observations • yield • sales portions • Sales parcels • Product analyses • reports • filling
Economy reports for farm groups • ProCultivation groups, Rural Centers, Farm clubs, etc…
Economy reports • Types • tables (numbers) • graphics • By target group • single farms reports • group summaries • group comparisions • Trends • Various levels • by cultivated plant • by variety • by plots
Farm economy Wakka >>> WebWakka
Accounting • Wakka • Bookkeeping for taxation • Taxation forms • Direct bank functionalities to all major banks • Economical analysis • Invoicing • Wages calculation • Result analysis and sending data to economical databank
Economical planning • Likwi • Long term (10 years) planning • Profitability • Liquidity • Wisu • Minor planning versions inside plant production economy component • Tuottopehtoori • Modell calculations in Internet
Economy databank Result analysis
Economy databank • Input-data bases on • Whole enterprise´s (agriculture, forestry, other activities) • Taxation accountings • Inventories • Extra data filled in before sending to databank • Done by advisors
Economy databank • Interface • Reports • figures • graphics