Dimitra x Seer Labs AMA Summary: February 15th, 2023
Dimitra Uses AI Technology & Big Data to Effectively Solve Global Agriculture Problems
Last week our CEO Jon Trask sat down with a community group on Discord called Zhuifeng (Catch the Wind) for an AMA, here is the Summary!
Could you please let us know a little bit about yourself as well as Dimitra?
Hello everyone, my name is Jon Trask and I’m the CEO and founder at Dimitra. Dimitra is a global blockchain-based Agtech company with a mission to help farmers across the world. Dimitra works with governments, farming cooperatives, agricultural corporations, NGOs, and for-profit organizations. Dimitra believes that every smallholder farmer should benefit from simple, beautiful, and useful technology regardless of economic standing.
$DMTR is a utility token created on the Ethereum blockchain as an ERC-20 token.
The $DMTR token is what drives our ecosystem, and farmers can do things like pay for their licenses (Connected Farmer, Livestock Guru, Deforestation, Connected Coffee) with $DMTR tokens, and when our marketplace goes live, they’ll be able to buy things like sensors, coffee, crops, and pay for their transactions with $DMTR tokens.
Here is Dimitra’s Linktree linking all our socials and more: https://linktr.ee/dimitratech
Everything related to our token: https://dimitra.io/token/
Exchange partners: https://dimitra.io/token/#markets_link_id
Could you tell us a little bit more about the Dimitra Livestock Guru? What is the main role of this platform? Our community is very curious about it.
Thank you for the great question! We have two versions of Livestock Guru, and people can purchase Livestock Guru with Dimitra Tokens:
Dimitra Livestock Guru Cloud
Livestock Guru is the all-in-one platform that empowers livestock producers to increase the profitability of their herds. The platform provides end-to-end livestock traceability and performance management.
Dimitra Livestock Guru Commercial
Livestock Guru Commercial brings all the features of Livestock Guru Cloud and also helps improve reproductive selection within herds to improve overall livestock productivity, which results in more and higher quality livestock products.
Dimitra is a new and revolutionary type of farm machinery drive product, what are the advantages of it compared with traditional farm machinery products? What are the benefits farmers get from using Dimitra?
Dimitra has many advantages for farmers compared to traditional farming approaches. Our technology stack is unique b/c it combines mobile, satellites, sensors (IoT), drones, artificial intelligence and machine learning with the power of blockchain and, therefore, immutable records. Simply put,, we have a data-driven approach that increases yields, reduces expenses, and mitigate risks for farmers and their farms all across the world. We’re told again and again by governments and NGOs that we have more features and functionality when compared to traditional agricultural solutions. Plus as our technologies are used for longer periods of time the results are more powerful and tuned b/c of our AI algorithms and machine learning.
As an agricultural product, how can Dimitra help farmers achieve more sustainable agriculture?
Very interesting question, and sustainability is super important to Dimitra as we want to make the world a better place and more sustainable. Here is one example of how we do this: imagine a farmer who has a problem with a blight or pest on their farm and the blight or pest covers 25% of their farm (in Papa New Guinea, which is one of our projects, they have a huge problem with Fall ArmyWorm). Before the arrival of drones, a plane would fly back and forth and, the plane would spray pesticides over the entire farm. This is bad for the environment and it’s also more expensive for the farmer. However, by using our drone technology with satellites and sensors and GEO fencing that farm, we are able to target just that region on the farm where there is a blight or pest problem, and then the drone sprays only the 25% of the farm that is infected. So, this saves the farm 75% in pesticide costs, and it’s also 75% better for the environment.
Every project or nation that we contract with at Dimitra has sustainability as a big focus from the very beginning.
What is the main direction of Dimitra’s future development?
The main direction is to keep building more functionalities into all our platforms, adding more farmers and implementing our solutions in more nations. We still want to help the 570 million small farms across the world. From a crypto perspective, our goal is to add more functionality like the Dimitra marketplace where customers will be able to buy and sell goods with the DMTR token and our newest initiative our Sponsorship Program that just got announced earlier today. https://dimitratech.medium.com/dimitra-releases-new-farmer-sponsorship-program-ce70c3327e18
Plus our Deforestation application is a huge focus for us moving forward please see here:
Our community would like to learn about the most updated $DMTR economics and value of $DMTR?
Here is our updated chart of DMTR tokenomics:
No project can grow without the community, what measures will your team take to protect the interests of the community and investors?
The Dimitra community is very important to us and everything we do we ask internally if what we are doing serves them best as we are a customer centric company. We listen to feedback in our social media channels and answer all questions when possible. Dimitra listens to our farmers, and to the governments we work with and Dimitra will only work if our customers (ie Dimitra Crypto Community, Farmers, and Governments / NGO’s) are happy. It’s also our goal to update everyone as regularly as possible via all our social media outlets on what’s new and engage our communities as new platforms or features launch. Of course when things are under NDA such as upcoming exchange listings we cannot announce that to the community. We want more involvement and engagement from our communities. If our social media numbers increase over time and the articles we put out in Cointelegraph have increased views month by month I’d say we are building more support.
Could you tell us more about your security strategy, audits or other measures you take to protect users’ assets and privacy?
Security is always top priority for Dimitra and as you can imagine working with governments and NGO’s requires a lot of due diligence to ensure we are secure. When Dimitra launched in 2021 we did a smart contract audit with our partner Certik here. In addition to this, we always keep users of our portal for staking and sponsorship in cold storage. Customer data and keeping that private and protected is of utmost importance to us as a company.
What is the profit model of Dimitra?
Dimitra has many revenue streams. First, there is revenue generated from licensing our Connected Farmer platform, our Connected Coffee platform, Our Livestock Guru platforms, and most recently our Deforestation platform. Dimitra also makes revenues from custom builds or features that customers ask us for (there are the out of box versions of our platforms and then there is the possibility to customize applications).
There is also revenue generated from buying extra machine learning reports, and eventually we’ll be selling anonymized agricultural data sets via our partners Ocean Protocol and their data marketplace. Another revenue stream is farmers buying things like extra IoT sensors for their farms and having to buy those sensors with DMTR tokens. As we onboard more and more farms, communities, and regions of countries this will all add up over time. Keep in mind we are contracted with 22 million farms + to use our platforms. This doesn’t mean they are implemented or that all 22 million + farms will take our platforms but the governments we are working with want our platforms to be with as many of their farms as possible. It’s a very exciting time for us.
As far as we know, Dimitra has been utilizing a lot of AI and Machine Learning Technology too, can you tell us more about it? And How are you viewing the latest development of the AI technology?
This is a great question — thank you for this great question and first please take a look at our new AI focussed DMTR logo:
We love the logo and hope you do too :) Artificial intelligence is certainly a hot topic these days and it is used in many areas of our applications.
Here are three examples of how Dimitra uses AI and machine learning:
Deforestation — we assess satellite images to differentiate between trees, crops, forested areas and clear cut areas. Machine learning is trained to understand the difference between what is on the ground. Some land looks the same from a satellite and we need to train the AI to understand texture, color, reflectivity, etc.. and understand what it is actually seeing.
Crop performance — we use spectral analysis and radar based analysis from the satellite to provide us readings on the ground. This data is combined with weather, planting, soil data, known agronomy parameters and a combination of statistical analysis and artificial intelligence is used to make recommendations to maximize the performance of each crop. These models are built for each crop and each combination of soil, terrain, weather, irrigation and known soil data. Machine learning is used to compare data sets across the world and align those recommendations based on regional differences.
Animal productivity — many environmental, management and hereditary factors affect the performance of cow. Machine learning combined with statistical analysis helps analyze and provide probabilities of what traits may be passed on, how mating one animal to another produces a prediction of performance. Mom donates 50% of her genes, Dad donates 50% of his genes. Nutrition, weather, water, disease, temperature, care, stress all play a factor. We group the animals based on conditions to make these predictions.
Here is a great feature about our work in AI that CIO review did last year and featured us as one of the top 20 AI companies to watch in the future:
As the first farm and probably the only project that is solving agricultural issues, what is your vision and what’s the story behind it?
I realized many years ago while working on international supply chain projects and when I was contracted to build an identity system for an African nation that there was a huge need and opportunity in developing nations for agtech and that the people who needed agtech the most did not have it. That’s where Dimitra started and as we spoke to more and more governments around the world on their agricultural pain points and what they wanted to achieve we started building Dimitra’s platforms and what you see today is the culmination of all of that feedback. As new use cases emerge such as Dimitra DEFI loans for farmers, and Dimitra DEFI insurance for farmers we will keep building.
Thank you for having me here today and I hope this was informative for your community.
Here is a list of key Partnerships and highlights:
Dimitra’s Key Crypto Partnerships:
- Ocean Protocol
- GEC, the Xi Protocol
- Morpheus Network
- Cointelegraph (media partnership)
- GEM Digital
Dimitra’s Country Partnerships
Dimitra has a growing list of partnerships and projects in 16 nations globally. Here are a few:
Additional Information:
Dimitra’s linktree to all our socials and more.
Everything related to our token
Coinmarketcap page for our Token
To look over the AMA notes from the community themselves, feel free to read it here.
