Revolutionizing the Coconut Industry through Digital EMP

November 12, 2021 at 12:17 PM
Fresh coconuts hanging on palm tree

Coconut cultivation remains one of the key export crops in Sri Lanka. With the diversity & demand of coconut-based products increasing globally maintaining & productively managing Coconut estates would be key to the growth of the industry.

The Pain points associated with managing coconut estates have been one of the reasons for estate owners to divest or sell off their plantations.

In order to help the coconut plantations, address these pain points iTelaSoft has come up with a Estate Management Platform (EMP) which is a digital tool that enables the smooth functioning of the estates even at remote & multiple locations.

The Estate App is an end-to-end Estate Management Platform covering all key functionalities on a coconut estate.

Estate Management Organizations have several pain points which have been affecting their productivity & efficiency. Some of these issues are lag in information between onsite staff & head office, Problems in managing & monitoring crop activities, labour management to name a few.

The Estate Platform addresses these pain points to ensure the smooth functioning of operations.

Some of the key features include functionality for the field staff/supervisors using tablets which gives mobility and capture all the crop information, such as Crop Picks – Coconuts are picked by the casual workers and categorized based on certain criteria, Crop Disposal – Collect and sell each allocated harvest prepared for the registered buyers, Weeding – Monitoring and treatment management. Visual verification through the uploading of photographs is a feature available in this platform as well.

Other features include management of casual workers – Estates employee daily wage workers and managing them is a key activity, multi-level approval and verification workflows, backend portal for admin staff to receive real-time data and take timely decisions & real-time dashboards.

Speaking on the above Country Head Suresh Tissaaratchy said as a company we are working with partners to address their pain points through efficient, easy use & cost-effective solutions.

iTelaSoft is a global technology company headquartered in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 2009 by a group of IT technologists, iTelaSoft expanded its operations to include development centres in Sri Lanka and India. Speaking about the company CEO Indaka Raigama said “ iTelaSoft specialises in product development and enterprise technology with a vision of becoming one of the best innovation partners to their customers. We have helped many start-ups, established product vendors, and large enterprises in Fintech, Telco and Edtech domains to achieve their business goals”