Iharvest takes Sri Lankan agriculture ...
IHarvest, a plantation digitization platform developed by Sri Lankan startup Itechro Private Limited, recently clinched major honours by becoming a winner at the National Best Quality Software Awards 2020 within the Industrial Agriculture Category for its achievements in digitizing the plantation eco-systems and showcasing the potential it possesses as an international product.
The revolutionary platform has been developed to address common issues faced by agricultural enterprises to create a digitally enabled plantation ecosystem by connecting each entity via a digital platform to sustainably redefine the current interactions creating value to every stakeholder in the process.
Improving supply chain efficiency, building stronger brand propositions, and creating customer centric products, meeting local preferences of customers are some key aspects which have earned the attention of industry leaders.
Itechro Private Limited recognised the problem and has come up with their latest product, iharvest, developed with the bold vision to create a digitally enabled plantation ecosystem. Company leadership envisages connecting each entity from trees to customers digitally making it a platform
that will sustainably redefine the current interactions creating value to every stakeholder in the value stream.
Building a supportive community behind the platform is another aspect. Today, the application is run supporting about a 15,000 workforce. The company believes to enrich their users with greater knowledge giving access to state-of-the-art knowhow through an edutech module planned for next release. Contributions are led through the community and expert content.
Chamara Jayaweera, co-founder and director of the company leading the product, added that as technologists it is our responsibility to contribute to positively support the industry to transform.
“As a team, Itechro is taking efforts to derive insights through a big data platform which can support the plantations in the long run. This leads to the transformation and sustenance stages of the product journey, digitally recognising the norms in the industry which will support the planters on best ways to treat a plant to optimise the outcomes. We think at the end, the growth should be made sustainable preserving the objectives on environment, society and economy. Hence, sustain is set as our ultimate goal,” Jayaweera said.
Bhathiya Bulumulla, Chairman of the Planters Association of Ceylon and the Director/ceo of Elpitiya Plantations said, “Over the past decades, we have been looking for ways to transform the traditional methods followed on the Plantations on data capturing into a technology platform. The iharvest system developed by itechro has made this transformation dream a reality.
Today, the entire field level operations at Elpitiya Plantations PLC has been fully digitalized and the cloud based solutions and mobile applications used in this system facilitates real time data capturing, improving the efficiency and accuracy of management information used by the plantations for decision making.
Itechro is in discussion for strategic alliances, and introductions are made opening doors to markets such as Indonesia, Malaysia, Africa, and Europe which also provide very large market potential.