02 Jul 2018

To keep agriculture aloft, young people have designed a farm records management system dubbed Montsamaisa to aid people in the farming business.

The software is said to be built primarily for monitoring and to help in farming as a whole, with accurate feedback that helps with informed decisions and improved farm performance sales. 

Speaking in an interview with BOPA, the Montsamaisa representative, who is part of the pentad that built the system, Mr Karabo Serojane said the system gave a detailed reflection of what is was happening in the farm remotely.

He said they had already registered two commercial farmers with over 400 cattle.

Mr Serojane said the system had modules; the first being the dashboard page, which was a decision based phase that helped with farm analysis and statistics to make instant decisions, while the other phase was machine integration that aimed at helping the software to communicate with internal machines to reduce human error by communicating results in real time and getting accurate results.

The financial and human resource module is said to manage employees and intelligence for financial analysis and the  inventory which captures feeds, manure and others and gives detailed usage of all farm daily inventory, adding that the software is mobile compatible and could be accessed offline as well as incremental backup.

Moreover, Mr Serojane said the reason they built the software was to help farmers and the youth to take agriculture seriously and to pervade the business mentality to those who had been in subsistence farming or those who neglected the importance of record management. 

He said the software enabled farmers to realise how much they used and with the information provided by the software, they could make generally well informed choices.

Lastly, he said other young people should be inspired to work together and venture into innovative solutions to answer and simplify life in all segments of the economy, adding that young people could actually work together and bring out the best in each other.

He said they had come together to work tirelessly to improve and work on solutions to better integrated agriculture. Ends