The objective of this project is to standardize the Business Processes, the Business Transactions and the Information Entities of the electronic exchange of the crop cultivation data along the supply chain.
This project will describe the business processes for the electronic exchange of
- data involved in the process of plant production farming, between farmer and his suppliers, service providers, the customers and competent authorities, vise versa, and
- the crop cultivation data along the supply chain.
The project focuses on horticulture, fresh fruits, vegetables and arable farming crops. The supply chain consist in parties involved from retail until the grower including cooperatives and producer organization, auctions, packers and traders.
The data involved in the plant production process messages contains
- Information about the crop fields, the planned and or actual cropping schema, treatment, plant health, soil and water situation, crop monitoring data, supplies (seed, fertilizer, plant protection), operation advices and operation instructions and the logging report about operations.
The information is used by the farmer and his partners to insure sustainable farming , food quality and food safety.
The crop cultivation message contains
- Information about the production of the crop (Information about treatment (pesticides, fertilizers, use of energy and water)
- Information about labor (organizing of the labor in the companies in the supply chain level)
- Information about certificates
The information is used by a partner in the supply chain to insure food quality and food safety. |