Innovation and even more need to improve crisis traversing the Spanish countryside have created a new Farm to Table app, already presented in Navarre. It will allow local producers to sell their grown food directly to consumers or customers, without the involvement of intermediaries. Those who with their presence, in most cases, prevent the agricultores receive a fairer price for their products, what work they entail. Public society INTIA has developed this application that could be the future of the agricultural and livestock sector. We tell you more details below.
The pandemic accelerates local consumption
In the middle of this pandemic that the whole planet is suffering, the local consumption it is becoming more and more essential as perimeter confinements are established. In many Spanish towns the only way to access fruits and vegetables is to go to the neighborhood greengrocer, in that context of mobility restriction. This is how the need to acquire proximity products, with that closeness between farmer and consumer. Formerly the direct relationship between the two was more common. It may be time to get it back.
With the birth now of the Farm to Table app, whose name in Basque is Sardetik Sardeskara, you want to go back to the past but resorting to technological innovation. A mixture with the traditional essence and also the enhancement of the primary sector that feels so outraged by the scarce profitability you get. The fight for prices that cover production costs goes a long way. Now, initiatives like this one launched by INTIA in Navarra helps local farmers a lot.
This is how the From Field to Table app works
In addition to fruit and vegetable products, the application offers the possibility of also selling wines, dairy, meats, honey, or other foods. In this way, the catalog is expanded beyond fruits and vegetables so that the customer can buy everything they need with a excellent quality. Something fundamental also in current times is that it allows two options for that sale: shipping at home or collection on the farm itself.
This second way even facilitates an interesting activity that can be an extra for farmers or ranchers. We talk about the organization of visits to get to know closely how it is produced what the consumer buys. More and more the client is intrigued or likes to know about this process, so this possibility is always enriching. As much as is the Farm to Table app with its operation as simple as downloading it from the web Sardetik Sardeskara and start seeing all the producers that are registered in it. Shows his contact information with telephone, mail, web and even location.
You can search by type of product or type of sale to consult these data, as well as the characteristics of each food. Likewise, the application tells you the minimum order of each producer and their delivery zones at home. A map shows the farms available to order throughout Navarre. There are already more than 65 registered up to 57 locations.
Social and solidarity economy
In addition to this food offer you can find information about seven collective platforms they have created several associated producers to sell a set of products. And it is that INTIA is updating the app as more are added farmers or ranchers. Those who are interested should contact the Navarrese public society of which we have already spoken in other articles for their innovations in the food industry. This recently launched is an important help for what we have already explained but there is still more.
Because by facilitating that direct relationship without intermediaries Not only is the sales margin improved for the farmer or rancher. Also moves a social and solidarity economy that promotes the natural and economic conservation of the rural territory. In general, a mutual trust is generated in which the two parties involved benefit indisputably.
In summary, we could point out that these types of projects, very much made possible by current technology, are a bet of the present and of future in the primary sector. We have seen the birth of other initiatives similar to this Farm to Table app, especially since the situation with the coronavirus worsened. Perhaps becoming passes through these applications and through direct relationships. We will be attentive to news that arise.
