Data-driven digital innovations to transform the first mile of agriculture

SourceTrace

SourceTrace is a SaaS (Software As A Service) company that focuses on sustainable agriculture and empowerment of farmers.

As the world population is estimated to grow to 9 billion by 2050, fifty percent more food will be required to feed the world. SourceTrace is helping farmers rise to the challenge through data-driven digital innovations that improve productivity and predictability in a sustainable manner.

SourceTrace's advanced technology platform DATAGREEN provides comprehensive solutions to manage all aspects of the agricultural value chain.

1 Million + farmers livelihoods improved

28 countries covered across 4 continents

2.4 million Hectares of land managed

350+ crops
handled

solutions

Farm Management

Advisory Services

Certification

Monitoring & Evaluation

Traceability

Supply Chain Management

Market Linkage

Financial Services

Farm Management

Digitization of farmer/farm profile, including farm area and soil health, along with pictures, biometric data and geo-referencing of farm.

Crop information like sowing date, sowing area, yield estimation, harvest management and crop management practices.

Crop calendar aids in scheduling of various agronomic & crop production operations, monitoring farm activities and generating alerts and reminders.

Trace seed and track fertilizer, pesticides and other inputs used in the farm.

Periodic or need-based inspection for detection of pest and diseases, monitoring of crop growth and farm activities.

Farmer Advisory Services

Sending advisory audio and text messages based on weather forecasts, crop calendars, pest and disease prevention/control and market alerts.

Remote sensing based NDVI data helps in monitoring the plant health and provides advice on application of fertilizer and irrigation.

Provides early warnings on upcoming weather conditions such as cyclones, drought and rain.

Provides market price information so that farmers can get the best possible price.

Provides information on new seeds, inputs and technology.

Certification

Enables farmer organizations to create and maintain a digital Internal Control System (ICS) for the certification process and compliance

Ready- to-use certification templates are available for several recognized standards such as Organic, UTZ/Rainforest, Fairtrade, Global GAP etc.

Keeps track of non-conformities, related corrective action plans and follow-up actions.

Digital calculation of farm area and geo-referencing of the farms to comply with new certification standards.

Monitoring & Evaluation

Real-time monitoring & evaluation using dynamic survey tool designed specifically for agriculture projects.

Ad hoc data can be collected in the survey format rapidly on different objects such as farmer, farm, farmer organizations, crops, dependents and community infrastructure elements such as schools, hospitals and community water resources.

On-demand surveys can be created and deployed to all the field staff instantly.

Captures M&E activities with geo-tagged photos.

Built-in surveys for certifications, child labour monitoring, farm diagnostics and farmer training.

Enables general surveys, diagnostic surveys, coaching and follow-up surveys.

Traceability

Complete visibility of produce from farm to consumer for various value chains such as fresh produce, organic cotton, aquaculture, cocoa and coffee.

Digital procurement transactions with lot numbers helps trace the origin of produce to farmer level.

Batch/lot numbers keeps track of origin information such as farmer location, date of harvest , packing and transport information to scannable bar codes and QR code labels. Support GS1 and other standards

QR Code / barcode-based traceability solutions allow consumers to trace the origins of food/clothes to the individual farmer/farmer groups.

Integration of GS1 or any other standard registration.

Supply Chain Management

Complete visibility of the supply chain all the way from farm to retail outlet on a real-time basis.

Forecast the volume and plan the harvest schedule based on the yield estimation, crop area and crop calendar.

Digitization of various farmer organizations and farmer groups, along with procurement transactions and place of procurement.

Batch printing of QR Code and barcode labels of farmer/farm ids for supporting traceability.

Integration with digital payment systems enables faster and accurate payment to farmers.

Tracks the current location of the produce through GPS tracking.

Market Linkage

Enable farmers to participate in global markets by providing visibility to the buyer.

Informing the farmer of available markets and prevailing prices.

Digitized certification makes it easier to share farming practices with conscious buyers who are willing to pay premium prices.

Visibility to market prices and commodity futures can improve the prices paid to the farmers.

Connects farmers and buyers through a common portal.

Financial Services

Comprehensive management of all financial services in agriculture value chain including credit, crop insurance, collections and payments.

Farmer groups and producer companies can digitize all financial transactions with the farmers and hence provide transparency and accuracy of their operations for accessing credit.

Minimize the risk of financial institutions to provide crop loans to the farmers by aiding in establishing farmers’ credit worthiness and real-time monitoring of the crop growth and yields.

Agribusinesses can monitor buying and payment processes without any leakages in the system while ensuring fair and transparent prices and faster payments to farmers.

Farm business plans can be generated based on the historic cost of cultivation and current market prices and farmers can be advised on which crops to grow.

Integration with digital and mobile wallets can enhance the transparency of the transactions and enable faster payments to farmers.

Technologies

Mobile applications

Extreme competency to work at both offline and online modes even at low band with areas.

Remote Sensing

Advanced weather-based advisories cloud/rain maps, geo-location of fields.

Blockchain

Offers highly protected data of supply chain, payment and KYC services through blockchain platform.

AI & ML

Enhanced predictability of crop fields. Early warning signs for pest and disease ETL levels in turn minimizing the risk of crop loss.

Customers

Testimonials

Suzanne Uittenbogaard

Sustainable Value Chain Manager, Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate, Netherlands

quote The SourceTrace platform enables us to digitally collect and link data from cocoa farmers, farms and the communities allowing us to formulate plans for coaching farmers based on their needs. quote-right

Nanda Kumar

COO, Chetna Organic Agriculture Producer Company Ltd., India

quote SourceTrace’s platform helped us digitize the end-to-end value chain all the way from farm to the brands taking possession of the bales. Chetna could distinguish itself in the market and gained customer loyalty and premium pricing in a sustainable manner. quote-right

Hendrik Jan (Erik) Keus

Chief of Party, WorldFish, Bangladesh

quote USAID-AIN project implemented by WorldFish is proud to introduce e-traceability on a pilot scale into Bangladesh using SourceTrace applications. quote-right

ASM Sofrul Islam

Programme Coordinator, BRAC, Bangladesh

quote SourceTrace solutions played an instrumental role in real time monitoring of JIBIKA project to develop Village Development Entrepreneurs in agriculture sub sectors such as vegetables, goat rearing, beef fattening and duck rearing and establishing the end-to-end value chain. quote-right

Mathias Vansteenkiste

ICS Manager, Goldtree, Sierra Leone

quote The monitoring of field staff, the efficiency of the mappings, the ease of retrieving loans on soft copy, have all become efficient. We now have a fully digitised system with total ease of monitoring quote-right

Juan Guardado

Managing Director, Natural Extracts Industries Ltd, Tanzania

quote SourceTrace solutions are a one-stop destination for all of NEI’s supply chain management information systems, monitoring and evaluation, procurement and payment tracking, organic certification, as well as scheduling of training programmes. Achieving our high standards has become possible with this solution that is simple and user-friendly, robust and seamlessly fulfills all our farmer management-related requirements quote-right

Uzair Javeed

Chief Operating Officer, Fruitmaster Agro Fresh Pvt.Ltd., India

quote It doesn’t matter whether we are dealing with a single orchard or hundreds of them, data is required at every step – to make policy decisions, to integrate with banks, to provide feedback and explanations to the farmers, or to share with government agencies. We need numbers, which we did not have till date quote-right

Banshi Katkar

Project Head, Krishi Pragati Foundation, India

quote The major benefit of the software is traceability, estimates of production for planning the marketing of produce quote-right

Dr. Md. Azharul Islam

Chief Scientific Officer, Dairy Development Research Project (DDRP), Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute, Bangladesh

quote The solution has been able to solve the challenges in collecting critical research data, particularly from remote farm level with its team of a limited number of scientists quote-right

Dr. Arjun Saini

Managing Director, Small Farmers Agri Business Consortium, Haryana, India

quote The SourceTrace platform will help us provide speedy and easy access to horticulture service, leading to better quality of life for farmers in the State quote-right