Israeli AgriTask platform spreading its wings

About 1,000 farmers in Israel, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Kenya and Thailand are reporting up to 40 percent reduced use of pesticides and improved fieldworker efficiency due to a crowdsourcing platform called AgriTask.

It’s like a smart one-stop shop for agricultural technologies and best-practices data.

Developed by Israeli startup ScanTask in 2008, AgriTask translates data into simple work protocols for farmers of vegetables, field crops, fruit and ornamental trees, grapes, and greenhouse flowers, and helps them comply with safety and export regulations.

Exporters, buyers, food conglomerates, and agriculture financing and insurance companies can reap business intelligence and decision support from ground data, aerial images, and forecast data shared by users across the cloud-based AgriTask platform.

All this happens on a simultaneously trilingual platform — English and any two other languages — allowing field workers and managers to use ScanTask in their preferred language.

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