Entwicklung eines FMIS als Smartphone-Anwendung für kleine und mittlere landwirtschaftliche Betriebe

Farmers lack the tools to make informed decisions related to financial management of their business,
taking into account cost and profit margins and profitability analysis. While there is a number of Farm Management ERP solutions on the market today these are mainly complete ERP systems, aimed for the big Farm Enterprises are not suitable nor affordable for use by the individual or family farm typical in most European countries.
For most farms, farming activities are not properly logged at least not in a systematic way so that cost analysis can be performed to find out critical cost factors that could be avoided in order to minimize costs and maximize productivity.
Individual farmers need IT tools that will enable them to log and calculate costs, plan ahead and make informed decisions on what crops to plant, what farming activities to execute and what inputs to use, based not only crop and farming requirements but also based on financial considerations.
Such tools should be able to provide a 'good enough' approximation of the cost and profitability analysis using acceptable 'default values' - typical costs per input and activity, in order to compensate for the lack of accurate data logs typical in a small size farm.