Design of an innovative, easy-to-use technological solution to bring together suppliers - Livestock Farmers - of underused animal by-products (manure), and potential consumers - Farmers - for use as organic fertilizer.
The idea of proposing a proposal for the design, implementation and evaluation of a manure market (MANU Marketplace) for the livestock and agricultural sector in Catalonia, is in the first phase, to provide a technological platform where farmers can publish their manure supply and farmers can satisfy the demand for organic fertilizers for their farms so that both parties obtain benefits in the form of savings and reduction in management, process, transportation and application time.
In addition to the platform, Manu Marketplace will offer an agile communication service between users, geopositioning tools, commitment templates as well as recommendations according to regulations, needs and quality. A monthly e-newsletter will also be available to keep users up to date on platform updates.
In a second phase, it is proposed to add functionalities so that service companies, slurry transport and application, slurry analysis, etc. can offer their services to give added value to the platform and satisfy ranchers and farmers who do not have the means. sufficient to be able to close the slurry marketing cycle.
The general objective of this Project is to design and build a marketplace prototype, with a format and functionalities that make it easy to use, even for people who are not familiar with the technologies, aimed at collaboration between farmers and ranchers, and agricultural service companies. . In the current market, many farmers waste a large amount of fertilizers of animal origin, due to the lack of information on the availability of fertilizers at key moments and real needs for crops, while, for those who, due to their intensive livestock activity, Offering your surplus manure/slurry is an outlet for a by-product of your industrial/livestock activity.
