Gate.io AMA with Dimitra-Data driven farming. Increase yield. Reduce cost. Mitigate risk

Time: Jan 5th, 2022, 13:00 UTC
Gate.io hosted an AMA (Ask-Me-Anything) session with Jon Trask,CEO of Dimitra in the Gate.io Exchange Community.
Official Website: https://dimitra.io/
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Guest

Jon Trask — CEO of Dimitra

Q&A from Gate.io

Q1: Why don’t you tell us a little about Dimitra?

Jon: Dimitra is an international company with a mission to deliver elegant and simple agricultural technology (AgTech) globally to farmers via blockchain.

Think of Dimitra as the operating for Ag-Tech and the utility of DMTR token drives the value within the Dimitra eco. Dimitra has team members in over 60 countries and we expect this to double in 2022.

In a nutshell, we are on a mission to help with food security, food traceability, increase food sustainability and more sustainable farming methods, and improve the lives of small farmers across the world.

Q2: Got it! And what role does $DMTR play in the platform/eco?

Jon: The $DMTR token is central to our platform and eco. Please take a look at our whitepaper https://dimitra.io/token and read our “Why Dimitra” article here: https://dimitratech.medium.com/why-dimitra-54bf7a662956

Each token acts as a catalyst for our farmer points program, our eco programs, our Dimitra economy and our innovation programs.

Within the Dimitra platform we have what we call our “farmer points program” which incentivizes farmers to enter their data in the Dimitra platform. Once the data is entered, it is converted and our machine learning algorhythms provide insights for the farmers with actionable insights on how they can 1) improve their farming outputs ie produce more food, 2) reduce their expenses (imagine using less pesticides or less fertilizer), and 3) mitigate risk (imagine being able to know that really hot weather is coming in advance to adjust what you do to your crops or what you plant).

Another way to imagine the Dimitra Platform, is the farmer uses the Dimitra platform, and the farmer is given Dimitra points and then at a certain threshold level of points those points are able to be converted into Dimitra tokens and then the farmer can either buy eco services within the Dimitra platform such as sensors or satellite services, or the farmer can exchange the Dimitra tokens into other crypto currencies or off ramp into their local fiat.

The DMTR token plays a key role in our platform and eco.

Q3: What are some of Dimitra’s biggest achievements so far?

Jon: Dimitra has been listed on Gate, Kucoin, Uniswap and Bitmart.

In addition to this, Dimitra has won some large contracts with the Brazilian Fruit Growers Association which is the 3rd largest fruit growing nation in the world, in India for 1.3 million farms and 350k farms, in Bangladesh for 1 million farms, in Uganda and more announcements are coming in 2022.

Here is a comprehensive list of what we accomplished in 2021 https://dimitratech.medium.com/dimitra-2021-year-end-recap-d7b44b6766d5 . Our country’s deals are usually very large so we anticipate that we will have a big impact on the blockchain community and farmers and communities around the world.

We are making a new announcement today and have secured 3 new deals to start working in Nepal with over 400,000 farmers to start.

Looking back at 2021, I am very grateful for what we’ve achieved and none of it could have happened without the help of our amazing internal team, our developers, our Ag and Crypto partners, and most importantly the farmers across the world and the associations that work with the farmers.

Q4: Great, thanks for the explanation. And I encourage everyone to go check out Dimitra’s end of year recap. Now, could you tell us a little more about your roadmap moving forward? What are you hoping to achieve in 2022?

Jon: Absolutely! Dimitra has big goals and in 2022, we hope to have agreements in place with over 20 countries, to have our SaaS model live, and to double our headcount.

Over the next 5 years we want to have 100 million farmers using our platform. Currently, the world wide number of crypto wallets is around 225 million so imagine the impact Dimitra will have.

We will continue building, expanding the Dimitra platform’s capabilities and delivering real value to farmers (our biggest goal) and improving people’s lives across the world. Dimitra is building an eco platform and a worldwide community which is the key to our success and some many different skill sets and deliverables are ahead.

Q5: Can you tell us what is the advantage of holding $DMTR tokens?

Jon: There are many advantages.

Firstly, agriculture (one of the worlds largest sectors) is largely untouched for crypto investors and we are really the only company doing what we do and taking our approach of focussing on small farmers vs large industrial farms. Most people don’t know that most of the food across the world is produced by small farms and feeds most of the planet.

Plus Ag-Tech is one of the world’s largest business verticals where everybody needs to eat! Over 500 million farms employ over 3 billion people.

We have a great article that summarizes some of the reasons an investor would consider Dimitra token: https://dimitratech.medium.com/why-dimitra-54bf7a662956