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Digital technologies help food producers reduce wastage

Othel V. CamposbyOthel V. Campos
December 5, 2021, 11:07 am
in Agri & Mining
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Southeast Asia’s fast-growing population and increasing food demand, coupled with escalating adverse weather and supply chain events, highlights the region’s future food security challenges that could be a hindrance to the development of sustainable growth ambitions.

SAP Southeast Asia president and managing director Verena Siow

This was revealed at a recent event organized by SAP titled ‘A Growing ASEAN, A Hungry Population: Building Resilient and Sustainable Food Supply Chains’, which brought together business leaders across the region’s food ecosystem spanning agriculture, manufacturing, distribution and logistics.

Among them were Dole Asia Holdings, a worldwide leader and innovator in the production and marketing of high-quality packaged fruit and healthy snacks and Loc Troi Group, a leading manufacturer and supplier of products and services in the field of agriculture with a sustainable value chain from research, production and sales of seed products, plant protection drugs, bio-organic products, rice and coffee.

SAP provides technological support both to big companies and micro, small and medium enterprises.  In the Philippines, it teamed up with both institutional clients and smaller enterprises.

Echoing what the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, SAP Southeast Asia president and managing director Verena Siow  said empowering food producers with the right tools to meet the growing demand for food and combating food wastage are critical for challenges in the region –areas where technology and digitalization play a critical role.

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“As a start, we need to better utilize the food we produce to minimize wastage. Food security and sustainability is more of a resource management challenge, where technology can be a change agent,” she said.

Around a third of all food produced—or 1.3 billion tons—is lost or wasted every year, according to previous estimates by the FAO, contributing 8 percent to 10 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions.

“Given the diverse food industries across the region which spans from production to retail and restaurants, businesses need help in gaining better end-to-end oversight over their operations, forecast demand through big data to deliver food in a timely manner, and improve supply chain efficiency—all of which could greatly contribute to the reduction of food scarcity in a sustainable way,” said Siow.

Experts and industry players cited the opportunities that lay ahead for Southeast Asia, among the world’s most productive agriculture regions, particularly on investing in driving high-tech agribusinesses, enhancing cross-industry collaborations, digitalizing and building resiliency across food supply chains and other activities along the value chain to bolster the region’s food future.

Agriculture and food are key drivers for Southeast Asia’s economy and GDP, forming a substantial proportion of the region’s workforce.

Speaking at the fireside chat segment hosted by Siow, Dole Asia Holdings CFO Leonardo Rabelo outlined the company’s efforts to elevate agriculture practices, ensuring better harvests for farmers yet also driving sustainable practices to mitigate food waste across its large operational footprint.

“Minimalism is at the heart of our green habits in our journey towards zero food loss. Technology in agriculture or agtech is vital in shaping our progressive and proactive waste reduction agenda.  The in-farm IoTs, phase tracking and  end-to end digitalization will be the new super powers to enable us to improve our quality and overall product value like never before  and  remarkably reducing waste. For the remaining waste our direction is to focus on upcycling it. To cite few examples we make banana puree, frozen banana, etc. In Dole, the ‘art of possible’ and the magic of enthusiasm are our fruit-some way of achieving zero fruit waste,” he said.

As food demand continues to increase with population growth and a rising middle class, countries will need to look at ways to bolster domestic food security and boost local production, especially for import and export dependent nations in the region.

Fundamentally, greater technology and finance support is needed for farmers and food producers, to increase yields and have better real-time data of the health conditions of their crops, especially for regions vulnerable to climate change like the Mekong Delta—which accounts for nearly half of Vietnam’s rice production.

Loc Troi Group chief executive Nguyen Duy Thuan, on the other hand, shared the company’s pilot project in rice sustainability standard with rice farmers across the Mekong Delta, developing high-quality value chain and eventually market Sustainable Rice Platform-certified rice both domestically and abroad.

“Today Loc Troi works with more than 200,000 rice farmers and aims at 1 million farmers in 2024, on top of annual rice milling capacity of 6 million tons. We leverage our foundations in agricultural knowledge in developing new crop varieties and resource-saving farming methods, along with applying technologies like drones and hospital mobile apps to provide consultancies for rice and fruit farmers. We were a member of SATForRice, a program by the Netherland government, which used AI in spectrum analysis and soil interactions to forecast next year’s yield, pests, and diseases risks. Loc Troi is working with farmers to obtain crop planting area codes and traceability through QR codes to promote Vietnam’s agricultural products in international markets,” said Nguyen.

Loc Troi underwent a digital transformation journey with SAP S/4HANA in 2020, which helped the group, standardize all processes to level up to international best practices, improve planning capacity, automatically track all activities across its business and maximize agriculture competitiveness and integrability.

With greater internationalization of Southeast Asia’s food businesses, enabling a resilient and agile food value chain remains critical to drive future growth for the industry. This includes greater integration and collaboration across partners, along with digital supply chains that grant visibility across their partners’ operations and their own.

To accelerate the circular economy, SAP announced the availability of SAP Responsible Design and Production—a solution for designing products sustainably to help businesses increase their measurement and data management capabilities.

The new solution, now available across Southeast Asia, helps companies gain better visibility of material flows through their processes including tracking and complying with rapidly changing regulations, especially those concerning product packaging and plastics.

SAP’s strategy is to help every business run as an intelligent enterprise. As a market leader in enterprise application software, SAP helps companies of all sizes and in all industries run at their best. SAP customers generate 87 percent of total global commerce.

Tags: ASEANfood producersPhilippinesSAP
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