Published date: November 22, 2021
Boniviri, an innovative Sicilian startup and benefit company specialized in the production of high-quality and sustainable foods, has signed a partnership agreement with Linkem SpA, a leading Italian operator in the ultra-broadband wireless telecommunications sector, to offer farmers who join the Boniviri project innovative agriculture 4.0 services.
Linkem4Farm smart farming services, developed in collaboration with xFarm and Farm Technologies, involve the use of an integrated digital platform for business management connected to a system of sensors that communicate with the mobile application, all through the cloud. Through smartphones and tablets, growers will be able to manage and coordinate business administrative activities digitally, automate activities such as inventory control, machinery maintenance and export specific documentation required for companies operating in organic farming, including specific documents for GlobalGap members.
Thanks to the agreement with Linkem, the agricultural companies participating in the Boniviri project will also be enabled to use the platform's Decision Support Systems, which will allow, thanks to forecasting models based on artificial intelligence, to consult data coming from the field in real time - such as soil humidity and temperature, salinity, conductivity, leaf humidity - and receive precise agronomic advice, for example on when and how to irrigate, thus improving the quality of production and management and effectively planning work in the field.
"Boniviri's mission is to create value with food for all actors in the agri-food chain, from growers to consumers, and the partnership with Linkem represents a further step towards achieving our objectives indicated in our Impact Map", said Corrado Paternò Castello, co-founder and director of Boniviri. "Thanks to this agreement, we will be able to provide our partner growers with innovative tools at advantageous conditions to make business management more efficient and improve the production and sustainability performance of their activities".
"Through the partnership with Boniviri, we aim to further enhance and accelerate the digital transition not only in large national companies, but also in small local businesses that have so far had difficulty approaching new technologies," said Daniele Righi, Chief Innovation & Business Development Officer of Linkem. "Linkem4Farm's technological solutions will allow an increasingly complete digitalization of the agricultural supply chain and we hope that they will thus contribute to indirectly guaranteeing the excellence of the final product of companies in the Sicilian territory, the pride of Made in Italy at an international level."
Thanks to Linkem4Farm, Boniviri takes a further step towards achieving the environmental and social objectives indicated in the Impact Map, the strategic document that identifies the company's mission and long-term objectives defined on the basis of the SDGs (the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals): safeguarding small, valuable Italian farms by making them prosperous and sustainable, making Boniviri products as eco-friendly and quality as possible, and bringing the world of those who grow closer to that of those who consume through sustainability.
Linkem4Farm solutions will be added to the integrated ecosystem of services offered to Boniviri growers, which will allow them to improve business management in terms of productivity and sustainability, thanks to the mapping of business performance through innovative digital solutions and the identification of actions to reduce the environmental impact of activities in the countryside.
