Harris Moysiadis
| Organization | Future Intelligence |
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| Organization type | Private Sector (Commercial Companies) |
| Organization role |
Business and Research Development Manager
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| Country | Greece |
| Area of Expertise |
Internet of Things, smart agriculture, smart and collaborative farming, fair-playing field for data sharing, knowledge-sharing economy, community rights and management, autonomous organisations
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Harris Moysiadis, Business Development Manager in Future Intelligence, f-in.gr, and Product Owner of the company's Agriculture services. He has graduated from Athens University of Economics and Business (BSc in Business Administration) and received his MSc in Information Systems: Business IT from Manchester Business School (UK) in 2010. His previous experience is in the Finance & Insurance, and Leisure & Tourism Industry sector as an analyst and consultant. His research interest focuses on the business implications of ICTs, mapping their intervention in Business Process cycle within Smart Cities/ Agriculture/ Transportation context. Finally, Harris is the project manager of QUHOMA project- quhoma.com- that aims to set a QUalitative HOrticulture MArketplace for B2B services' exchnage among quality agrifood growers, agronomists and quality certification bodies, thus creating a knowledge sharing primary economy.
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Forum The Role of ICTs in Sustainable Crop Production Intensification (SCPI) of horticulture crop based system (mainly fruits, vegetables, roots and tubers)
What are the specific constraints you have faced in the use of ICTs for sustainable intensification of horticulture crop base
Thank you Dr Simone and Thembani for the introduction.
From my experience, I would summarise the constraints as the lack of partners' commitment to the required and emergent common bridging "organisational" layer. This layer is a prerequisite to be formatted among the ICT provider, the farming organisation, the local policy makers and the local community. When ICT projects intervene in conventional activities and markets a whole new world opens up that certainly needs a constant supporting environment to alter as-is and status quo behaviours and enable total attitudes' transformation.
So Simone despite your comments being profoundly true and well-targeted as technology progresses neither money nor complexity won't be the problem. Business/ technical continuity and (micro/ macro) environment's support will, however.
Thank you for the discussion.
Regards,
Harris Moysiadis
From your understanding and experiences, what is the role of ICTs in sustainable intensification of horticulture crop based s
From my experience gained from piloted Internet of Things technologies in smart agriculture, the multiple effects of the use of ICTs in sustainable intensification (I excluded the sustainability/ environmental gains that are pre-assumed in this hypothesis) are summarised as below:
i. ICTs increase the productivity of the farm by lowering the supply of inputs to precisely match its contextual needs (context is based on soil moisture, temperature, EC, leaf-wetness etc) leaving unchanged or even improve the yield's quality and quantity
ii. ICTs increase the productivity of the farmer by rationalising the time spent for his farming and business activities. For example, operational tasks can be evaluated remotely and -when approved- also applied remotely; saving time and money for the farmer (e.g. irrigate without physical presence for assessing soil moisture and/or turn on the pump and activate the irrigation system),
iii. marketing/business gains for the commercial launch of the products that were produced with the use of ICTs due to increased traceability of the cultivation practices.
iv. Last, ICTs acquire, transmit and diffuse to relevant stakeholders data that relate to pre/ during/ post production phases. As a result, modern enterpreuners can benefit from the data treatment as a commodity that enables novel data-sharing business models and interelationships across the horticulture crop value chain.
I would be glad to elaborate on these with anyone interested also bringing in the discussion specific technologies and projects for farmers, food processors, traders and consumers.
Harris