{"id":1715,"date":"2021-04-29T08:23:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-29T08:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agnext.com\/?p=1715"},"modified":"2021-04-29T10:55:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T10:55:33","slug":"digital-revolution-for-agriculture-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.agnext.com\/test\/digital-revolution-for-agriculture-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Revolution in Agriculture Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The agriculture sector has different layers in the supply chain, from farmers to consumers. However, the procurement process in the agriculture supply chain involves layers like quality assessment, supplier management, logistics, payments, business intelligence &amp; various other data-oriented activities. As procurement lies in the frontline for agribusinesses, its evolution has become quite crucial for informed business strategy. Procurement is at prime while discussing supplier risk, profitability and sustainability.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The revolution of the procurement process with technological advances such as digitalization has become a need in \u2018the new normal&#8217; in the COVID-19 situation. Ensuring Food quality, handling the paperwork and pricing have become riskier due to malpractices and lack of technology in place. That is to say, that manual processes lack transparency for producers and buyers in crop procurement and these challenges can be mitigated using digital technologies at the procurement level itself.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1716\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1716\" class=\"wp-image-1716 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/agnext.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Digital-Revolution_Blog-Creative_28-April_5-1-1024x538.jpg\" alt=\"Digital Revolution for Agriculture Trade\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.agnext.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Digital-Revolution_Blog-Creative_28-April_5-1-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/test.agnext.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Digital-Revolution_Blog-Creative_28-April_5-1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/test.agnext.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Digital-Revolution_Blog-Creative_28-April_5-1-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/test.agnext.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Digital-Revolution_Blog-Creative_28-April_5-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Digital Revolution in Agriculture Trade<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the COVID-19 pandemic has locked down most industries, the processes that go with it have ceased as well. Unavailability of manpower, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">laboratories for quality and other parameters testing are unreachable\/closed <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&amp; various logistics-related issues <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">during the pandemic<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has given rise to an urgent need for rapid, on-field quality testing solutions that save time and enables quality-based trade in the supply chain. AgNext, with its new-age rapid on-field quality testing solution, Qualix, is all set to revolutionize the way food trade happens amidst the pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can address various challenges such as food quality, fair pricing, transparency, food loss, malpractices due to manual interventions &amp; most importantly the business losses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qualix can optimize procurement in the agricultural last mile.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rapid Food Quality Assessment-<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 To bring trust, speed &amp; transparency in food transactions, Qualix provides instant on-field quality assessment. Presently it can assess commodities like grains, oilseed, pulses, spices, tea, milk and animal feed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Information Services:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> To enhance business opportunities and improve products and services, agribusinesses can collect insights from the data collected on-ground related to food. Digital information service is the heart of the data transfer among each layer of the value chain.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital Profiles:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Authenticated identities and digital profiles of stakeholders help agribusinesses keep a formal history of transactions, location, feedback, and other parameters.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Track and Trace Systems:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Modern agribusinesses need real-time visibility and tracking for traceability and certification of food products which is possible with traceable digital solutions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Quality-based transactions:<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The risk and cost involved in cash payments are drastically reduced using digital financial services such as mobile money transfer applications and services.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thus, the digital revolution for procurement can offer efficiency and reduce value losses. The management of risk and informed decisions, and effective responses to events are possible only with agile AI and cloud-based platforms. Automation is the latest technology trend that can eradicate time-consuming quality assessment processes &amp; data analysis. Such innovation at the procurement level will help reduce strain from the supply chain, making the process faster, reliable, and all the more efficient.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The agriculture sector has different layers in the supply chain, from farmers to consumers. However, the procurement process in the agriculture supply chain involves layers like quality assessment, supplier management, logistics, payments, business intelligence &amp; various other data-oriented activities. 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