- AgriTech & traceability
Sociedade de Mutuali — cotton fibre factory
From farmer registration and inputs on credit to graded fibre: cotton purchases with debt deduction, transport, storage and production in FAMS.
- Period
- 2023
- Status
- Archived
- Role
- Consultant and FAMS technical lead: rollout, configuration and training
- Client
- Sociedade de Mutuali
- Partners
- GIZ – ProEcon, COMO Consult
Problem
Sociedade de Mutuali works with cotton farmers to whom it advances inputs on credit and from whom it buys first- and second-grade cotton, which it then transports, stores and processes into fibre at its factory. It needed to link each purchase to the farmer and their debt, and follow the cotton through to graded fibre.
Solution
In 2023, within GIZ's ProEcon project with COMO Consult, FAMS was rolled out end to end: farmer registration, inputs distributed on credit, purchases of first- and second-grade cotton with debt deduction, transport, storage, production and cotton quality grading.
Technical decisions
01
Debt is deducted at the moment of purchase
Inputs delivered on credit stay linked to the farmer; when they sell their cotton, the debt is deducted in the purchase itself, keeping first and second grade apart.
Images
No publishable screens: the system needs real data to run or is no longer online.
Technologies
- Laravel
- PHP
- MySQL
Verifiable results
- field-to-factory rollout, within GIZ's ProEcon with COMO Consult
- 2023
SDGs
SDG 2 · Zero Hungerprimary
Cotton farmers are registered, with each one's inputs on credit and sales linked to their profile.
SDG 8 · Decent Work and Economic Growthcomplementary
Deducting debt at purchase makes it transparent what each farmer received and what they still owed for inputs.
SDG 12 · Responsible Consumption and Productioncomplementary
Cotton is followed from purchase to storage and production, with its quality graded.