Manage labor and production by Data Monitoring

Food safety and security have become a major global issue. Factors such as population growth, decreasing water resources and the demand for sustainable produced products require stricter regulations to ensure food quantity and quality. But how can horticultural automation help growers to improve production, quality and food safety?

As a grower it is essential to keep your crop healthy in order to ensure food safety and security. Insight into factors that affect your crop yield is therefore required. This valuable data makes e.g. pests and diseases traceable, but it also provides insight into harvest activities.  At the same time, technology enables you to take action at an early stage to improve the quality of your crop. Thus, by data on harvest activities, crop health, production costs and personnel performance, the quality and quantity of your crop can be increased and at the same time costs can be controlled.

Hoogendoorn’s management information system Work-IT wirelessly registers real-time data about crop yields, labor performance, and pests and diseases. Work-IT can be used both by means of a terminal or smartphone.

Prevent yield losses due to pests and diseases

The Work-IT registration system enables you to locate pests and diseases at an early stage. With the use of crop protection, in contrast to chemical pesticides, the infestation can be combated more effectively. This prevents yield losses and maintains a healthy crop. The location of the infestation can be read directly from the greenhouse floor plan on your computer screen. These registrations also make it easier to comply to quality and environmental legislation.

Ensure food safety and security

With Work-IT you can monitor the complete route of your harvested crop from your greenhouse all the way into the shop. With these features you are fully equipped to meet the growing demand of conscious consumers who want to know all about where their purchased product came from. Next to this it also enables you to ensure food safety and security.

Save up to 15% on labor costs

For a high staff productivity and yield stability, information about labor performance and crop yields are important. This data enables you to manage labor, production, crop health and costs in an efficient way.

Work-IT provides you and your employees with instant performance feedback. The dashboard overview shows you which employees perform any given activity the best. With this information you can deploy staff more efficiently and, if needed, make adjustments throughout the day in order to reach your production targets.

Secure your inventory

Another aspect of Work-IT is that it helps to secure your inventory. Work-IT keeps track of your current stock of e.g. clips, packaging, pesticides, and fertilizers. You can see what came in, when it came in and in what quantity, and also who used it, when it was used and in what quantity. The big advantages here are that you know exactly when to order new materials and it prevents you from being out of stock.

The added value of Work-IT

• Provides insight in labor, production and crop health and thus allows for improvements.
• Includes a wide range of analysis options that sets out your business into detail.
• Increases staff motivation and productivity by instant performance feedback.
• Early localization of pests and diseases to maintain a healthy crop.
• Ensures food safety by track and trace.
• Available in multiple languages, which can be adjusted per user.
• Can be integrated with general weighbridges,      scales, etc.
• Tailored to your organization

Local customer-focused service

Along with innovative tools, knowledge is an important driver to gain the maximum benefit out of horticultural technology. Therefore, partners Hoogendoorn Growth Management and Bosman van Zaal provide custom-made trainings, advice and support. This can be done locally or online, which enables you to expand your knowledge at any place and any time.

Bosman van Zaal supplies local service and support for growers. Bosman van Zaal delivers and installs the systems at your greenhouse and also provides maintenance service, crop-focused and user training, and technical support to customers.

With Hoogendoorn Growth Management and Bosman van Zaal as partners a long term investment and partnership is key. With a wealth of experience in African countries, we help you as a farmer to always be a step ahead and get the maximum out of your greenhouse or open field. Together with a diversity of partners we have been involved in a range of projects in Africa in collaboration with local authorities.

For more information please contact us:

 

 

 Flower Business Park – Panda

20117, Naivasha, Kenya

+254 707 000 309

office@bosmankenya.com

 

Meskel Flower Road

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

+251 114 673 878

ds@bosmanethiopia.com

www.bosmanvanzaal.com

 

+31 10 460 80 80

info@hoogendoorn.nl

www.hoogendoorn.nl