Field Sense

The Field Sense initiative enables data-powered sales growth for Government Programs and International NGOs and helps reduce costs and improve efficiency by providing remote agriculture monitoring, yield prediction, and sustainable ways to engage with farmers and raise awareness on matters of great importance. FieldSense consists of 3 products - monitoring, advice and engagement that can be implemented separately or in a bundle. Using Field Sense Monitor, this initiative field staff in remote areas to provide farm advisory services to clients consisting of monotiring field activities remotely, predict yields and leveraging data for decision making. The initiative providing a live dashboard with all the data ollected. The initiation also provide advisory services under Field Sense Advise provinding client farmrs with with agronomy tips to improve crop husbandry, imrpvide yields and mitigate risks. The agonomic advisory tips are tailored to actual conditions on the ground. The initiative also engage with with clients using the FieldSense Engage app that enables clients to reach more farmers with their products and insurance instruments while educating them on insurance benefits. By combining insurance with tailored advice, the net effect is to encourage more farmers to pay for the product and insurance. The initiative is a business to business and business to government solution deployed in 20 countries including the Philippines.

Lead (category)

Private company

Name of initiative lead (and partners)

Pula Advisors (an agricultural insurance and technology company)

Categories of Digital initiative deliverables

Specific ICT technology product and/or service delivery

ICT products/solutions and services by category

Digital Agriculture

Digital Agrifood Services

Non ICT products and services (deliverables)

Insurance services

Business and governance structure

DI ICT-deliverables format

Web-based platform

Mobile applications

Primary stakeholders (beneficiaries, actors, enablers)

Agribusiness / private organization

Farmers

Value chain actors

Size, scale or scope of primary stakeholders

Digital Initiative development Stage

Fully operational - Growing and expanding stage

Measurable impacts on primary stakeholders and target beneficiaries

Initiative geographic scope (or coverage) (national, regional, sector specific, specific user co-horts etc)

National

All over Philippines

On-line resource links (Web-page links, links to videos, links to reports, etc)

Main DI webpage

Link to Digital village

Link to Digital solution