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hm, interesting. in what countries will u work?

Farming is essential for life maintenance, but nobody thinks that agriculture is a reason for modern technologies to develop. Agriculture seems to be a traditional sphere, but today we can say proudly that the future is in the farming.

Farming in India demonstrates perfect examples of technological innovations. In this text we are going to show 5 of them.

Skymet is the largest company in India dedicated to forecasting the weather and providing tools for risk management. Their website allows to check weather conditions in specific villages and help farmers to prepare for bad weather conditions such as excessive rains, and thus to reduce losses.

Ekgaon is an IT network integrator that provides services to aid farmers such as financial, agricultural and civil assistance.

- Financial help is provided by a mobile app that helps to find financial organizations which deliver services such as credit, insurance, investment and savings.

- Web technology and interactive voice responsive system offers help in finding information about weather, market prices and goods, soil nutrition and crop management.

- Through web and mobile applications, the citizens can use government programs and services.

Aquaculture lacks of good technologies for measuring and controlling the water conditions. The technologies of Eruvaka help to implement technologies in aquaculture to measure and control water conditions. Eruvaka organization developed solar powered buoys that measure water parameters (oxygen level, temprature, pH) that are crucial for the health of fishes and shrimps. The measureв data is then uploaded to the cloud platform and delivered to the customers via app, SMS, voice call or internet.

BIOSAT is a soil addition based on biochar which increases soil fertility, reduces carbon emission and strengthen the topsoil, thus reducing the need to use of chemical fertilizers.

Barrix Ago Sciences, a startup based in Bangalore, has developed technologies that help to fight pests without using chemical pesticides.

Barrix Catch Fruit and Fly Lure traps use pheromones to attract pests to the trap.

Recyclable fly pest sticky sheets also helps to attract 19 types of pests from a long distance.

The last innovation that is now gaining traction in India – and we are sure you have heard of it – is 1000Ecofarms platform which unites farmers, food produces and customers within a marketplace. It helps to save money and tailor marketing and sales. 1000Ecofarms is currently going through updates, and developing into a blockchain ecosystem with its own payment and marketing instruments, useful for every farmer.

If you still haven’t registered in this project, you can use our site for that and join our communities in social networks.

Who is a farmer? A person whose main task and mission is to grow delicious and quality vegetables and fruits. In fact, a farmer should deal with many more things. In order to sell the products at a profit, a farmer has to do a hard work, and making a sale on time often require even more effort than planting, growing and harvesting the crop together.

Why is it so hard to market the crop, even though it is the most qualified and certified? Paradoxically, most of the producers have no direct access to the retail market and supermarkets. Large retail chains work mainly with large producers, which have their own resources for proper storage and transport of the grown products. Supermarkets would prefer to procure products of large agricultural holdings and corporations, which package the products in a good-looking wrapping and these products can be stored for a long time, even though they use chemical fertilizers, preserving agents and GMO-seeds.

In order to market their products, small farmers have to be content with the service of middlemen who purchase their products at deliberately knock-down prices in order to sell it at farmers' and wholesale markets with a 2-3 fold increase. The producers themselves rarely can afford hiring carriers, sellers or renting storage facilities for independent product sale. In this case, there is not much benefit to expect.

As a result, the losses of harvest until spring reach 30-40% and more. To reduce losses, small farmers join cooperatives that also has many problems in organization and management.

The internet gives good opportunity to find customers: many successful farmers have their own online product shops with the option of delivery. However, not all manufacturers have time or possibility to apply to the web-designers and developers, or contract logistic companies and banks. The best solution is to sign up a unique platform of 1000Ecofarms where you can create your own shop freely. A little later, after the implementation of blockchain tool of FoodCoin Ecosystem together with all instruments and smart contract library, product marketing will be even simpler.

On the other hand, a particular online farmer shop rarely has a variety of products, which you can find on 1000Ecofarms, so there are certainly more buyers.

More than 4000 users around the world have already been registered in 1000Ecofarms. Check out if you are among them too! 1000Ecofarms is the first, self-consistent and independent project, but yet not the only one.

We're updating our whitepaper. The best answer is to read it when it will be ready.
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I wonder what the actual significance of such a project is.Maybe it's just for ICO and ICO.

Do you always read the information about the ingredients on the product packages? Which criteria do you follow when you buy food? Strict statistics gives the answer. The experts have surveyed the natural food demand among different generations. The results show that conventional supermarket food sales are decreasing while the products claimed as natural, clean and free from artificial admixtures are the more successful.

These trends are becoming more mainstream: results of the survey show that 93% of US families prefer buying eco-labelled products in supermarkets, 70% - in big marts, and 33% in wholesale stores. 50% of the shopping trips include purchasing natural products. Don't let the common numbers confuse you: not all families always visit the same shopping places.

Consumers born after 1965 prefer buying products labeled as ‘Organic’, ‘Non-GMO’ and ‘Free from added hormones’. On the other hand, older generation consumers pay less attention to such labels.

Consumers are more and more keen in the eco-production concept. As a consequence, the food producers seek to exclude artificial sweeteners, colorants and flavoring agents, and especially such products as high-fructose corn syrup, gluten and trans fats.

Kraft Heinz reconsidered the recipe of their famous Oscar Meyer hot dogs, adding only clean products in it. Two years before, Campbell Soup also claimed to exclude almost all artificial colorants and flavor agents from the products manufactured for US until the end of 2018, and launched a new line of goods made of simple ingredients to satisfy the demand for healthy food. Hershey, General Mills and many other manufacturers have made similar changes.

According the survey of Innova, 75% of consumers always read the ingredients section on the product packages, 91% prefer products that contain well-known healthy ingredients.

In such a way, the food industry has a clear economic motivation to move towards the clean production, as the surveys show that most consumers prefer paying extra 10% for the food that contain ingredients they trust in. 18% of the consumers say that they would pay extra 75% for products they prefer.

Aside from the ingredients, the consumers also consider the nutritional information as an important aspect of choice. However, the price is still the most important factor.
Despite of the fact that general consumer prefers eco-labelled foods and drinks, there are still variations by age, income and personal choice.
Nielsen analyzed the proportion of eco-products and drinks versus the regular ones. Eco-labels are leading in several categories such as: beans (51% vs. 49%), baked goods (57% vs. 43%), vinegars (81% vs. 19%), sugar and sweeteners (83% vs. 17%) and dairy (90% vs. 10%), according to Food Business News.

A typical eco-labelled production fan can be drawn as a young customer who occasionally cooks at home, loves dairy and has a sweet tooth. However, as it always is, the survey shows the complex consumer demography which food producers should consider, as well as their awareness on choosing the products.

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Our moderators will verify your submission, and will allocate between 1 and 5 bonus FoodCoin tokens directly to your account. The number of bonus tokens will depend on the popularity and quality of the referring page or social network. Tokens will only be awarded for sharing FoodCoin on legitimate websites - we don't like Spam any more than you do!

And if you have a particularly large following, or own an especially popular online resource, please contact us directly - we can work out an individually tailored partnership program.