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Aladin.farm accelerates digital transformation for farming

Information updated on 24/03/20

InVivo, the leading cooperative farming group in France, has launched aladin.farm. The online commercial platform designed by Montpellier’s Stéphane Marcel offers innovative solutions that will help speed up the agricultural transition.

Stéphane Marcel, directeur du digital du groupe InVivo_Aladin©DR

Stéphane Marcel, digital director at the InVivo_Aladin group ©DR

Online since December 2019, the aladin.farm digital platform seeks to cover all the needs for farming in the future.

The innovation was originated by farm cooperatives and InVivo, a union comprising 201 of France’s largest cooperatives, representing nearly two-thirds of all French farmers.

“95% of farmers are connected. We offer them a French e-commerce alternative that is not Amazon or Alibaba,” adds Stéphane Marcel, a Montpellier-based agronomic engineer and director of digital activities for the InVivo group.

In addition to services, consumables (such as gloves, protective glasses, etc.), and equipment, farmers will be able to browse aladin.farm to find tools with reduced environmental impact as well as alternative crop treatment products (such as innovative fertilizers, bio-control products, and insecticides for combating some diseases).

“We want to create a third channel for farming, between organic and conventional, to steer towards a more virtuous model and offer healthier food,” mentions Stéphane Marcel.

The platform’s footprint in Montpellier

A subsidiary of InVivo, which has some of its staff located in the Eurêka business park, aladin.farm already works with nine of the group’s cooperatives, representing a potential of 50,000 farmers.

“We hope to cover 100,000 farmers by the end of 2020 and rise to the top of digital platforms,” says the director, who founded Neotic in 2001 (developer of farming traceability software), which then became Smag, a subsidiary of the InVivo group for which he is now CEO.

“Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole has a strong reputation in agriculture and agronomics. With the presence of the highly valuable Business Incubation Centre, it is a great place to innovate,” highlights the platform’s creator.

Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole has implemented a novel and dynamic policy to promote agroecological transition and sustainable food. Among other things, local authorities designed and produced the BoCal digital platform to support “good” and “local” food, including a shared calendar filled with events, workshops, tours related to those topics, a geolocated map with points of sale for local foods, recipes, and more.

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