8,04 ha/day
Team performance measured for the first time
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.
Team performance measured for the first time
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.
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.
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:
Pistachio still has no established reference data in Portugal. Without their own data, planning the next campaign was essentially guesswork.
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.
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.
Beyond tracking routes, it helps prevent improper behavior and improves coordination between operators.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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