Soil testing Software for 'Agri-Lab'

About Deepak Fertilizers and Petrochemicals:

   Deepak Fertilizers and Petrochemicals Corpn. Ltd. is a publicly listed chemicals company. It is the largest Indian manufacturer of ammonium nitrate and is a leading manufacturer of industrial chemicals including methanol, nitric acid, carbon dioxide. Today Deepak group has a multi-product portfolio consisting of chemicals, petrochemicals, fertilisers and other agri-inputs.

Situation:

    To provide services to the farmer for testing soil, plant tissue, water and organic fertiliser samples, Deepak Fertilisers And Petrochemicals Corporation Limited has set up a well equipped Agri-Lab with state-of-the-art facilities like Atomic Absorption Spectrometer and Automated Nitrogen Analyser with utmost precision and accuracy. Following analytical services are offered through Agri-Lab:

  • Analysis of N, P, K and Sulphur along with micronutrients in addition to pH and Electrical Conductivity (EC).
  • Testing of plant tissue samples for all major and micronutrients and advise farmers on fertiliser scheduling for fruit crops
  • Analysis of manures, organic and chemical fertilisers to check quality

Deepak Fertlisers desired to develop  a MS-windows based software which will calculate fertiliser dosage requirements, schedule according provide the analysis from the chemical analysis inputs and print reports of fertiliser recommendation based on the above analysis. The reports should be printed in the native indian language of the region where the farmer belongs to, as english is not very well known in interior parts of India.

Solution:

    Zestorm was awarded the assignment to design and implement a software solution on Windows platform customised to agri-lab formats and requirements. The critical challenge was to provide native indian language data entry and reporting. Considering the advances in unicode and support added in .NT and latest XP version, Zestorm went in for .NET based development.

Key benefits:

The Zestorm advantage:

Zestorm demonstrated their keen understanding of requirements and gave a solution which provided native indian language support at no additonal cost for fonts etc.