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At PTachio, managing a farm remotely starts with data

With two managing partners, Inês and Filipe, living on the farm but working full-time away from it, PTachio needed real operational visibility that let them see results even when daylight, whether at leaving or arrival time, no longer allowed it. They found it in Wisecrop.

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8,04 ha/day

Team performance measured for the first time

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of pruning tracked in detail
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Wisecrop is an operational farm management system that helps me know where I stand. 
 
Filipe Figueira - Managing Partner · PTachio
SOBRE

PTachio - Sociedade Agrícola, Lda

Founded by Inês and her husband Filipe, PTachio is a pioneering pistachio project at Herdade de Vale Figueira, Arraiolos. Inês, an agricultural engineer, brought to the project the experience she gained working with pistachio cultivation in Spain, and leads the farm's agronomic vision alongside a strong commitment to technology.

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1 Farm
Hecares digitalizados
38 hectares
pistacio
Pistachio
CASE 1 – Productivity and Growth

From a manager with no data to a manager with real benchmarks

 Still in its pre-production phase, PTachio makes careful cost management its top priority, because reaching break-even starts, above all, with controlling spending before the first harvest.

PROBLEM

The Challenge

Managing a pistachio farm during its establishment phase, with both Inês and Filipe working full-time away from the estate, brings challenges that go far beyond agronomy. PTachio faced three concrete problems before implementing Wisecrop: 

No benchmark to plan by

Pistachio still has no established reference data in Portugal. Without their own data, planning the next campaign was essentially guesswork.

Invisible costs

Without logging hours and operations, it was impossible to know how much each task cost. Deciding whether to use in-house or outsourced labor was a matter of opinion, not calculation.

Limited remote supervision

Inês and Filipe needed a system that could act as their eyes in the field.
 Wisecrop centralizes all the important information and supports more rigorous, productive management. 
Inês Lopes
Managing Partner · PTachio
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HOW WE SOLVED IT

The Solution

The implementation of Wisecrop at PTachio focused on operational logging and monitoring tools: GPS on the tractors, the Labor app, and the task-logging add-on. The result was a level of visibility that, in the manager's own words, had never existed before.

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Permanent operational memory

Every task logged in Wisecrop remains available for review at any time. Inês and Filipe can now easily reconstruct what was done last week or last month. 

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Route tracking and remote supervision

Beyond tracking routes, it helps prevent improper behavior and improves coordination between operators.

 

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Cost calculation per operation

By logging hours per worker, PTachio can now calculate the real cost of each agricultural operation. Figures that now serve as a reference for negotiating with outside contractors and for planning future campaigns.

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Operational debriefs with real data

Generation of internal reports per operation, detailing hours per worker, productivity, and comparisons between in-house operators and outside contractors — an analytical capability that simply didn't exist before.

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Building a history in a crop with no benchmarks

Pistachio has no reference data in Portugal. Building its own history will position PTachio, in the medium term, among the few farms with solid data on this crop.

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A clear path to delegation

Currently it's Inês and Filipe who log the tasks. The next step, already planned, is to bring workers into using Kiosk, reducing the logging effort and increasing team autonomy as treatments progress.

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Day-to-day management of our farm becomes much simpler when we can access irrigation, routes, sprays, and products used, all on a single platform.

Inês Lopes - Managing Partner · PTachio

THE RESULTS

What changed after they started logging data

The farm is in a phase of heavy cash outlay. To reach production, it's important to keep costs under control. The more out of control we are in that department, the more expensive the investment will be until break-even.
Filipe Figueira
Managing Partner · PTachio
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with tracking
helps adjust behaviors
71,24 €/ha
Pruning
a figure that's hard to calculate without data
8,04 ha/day
pruning performance
helps with planning
Benchmark
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PTachio is building, campaign by campaign, the first reference data on pistachio in Portugal, with growing strategic value with every operation logged.
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We would never have arrived at these numbers, no matter how much we like to pretend our little notebook is good for something. It changes the planning for next year and how we track our team's productivity.

Filipe Figueira - Managing Partner · PTachio

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