To be an entrepreneur is not an easy task because you can’t stand on your own . Choosing and creating your team is the first step in order to become a more successful entrepreneur . In creating our team, we make sure that everyone is a great contributor in our company and can fulfill each others weaknesses .
As our career which is an agricultural and biosystems engineering, we focused on Agricultural problems which can be solve through the application of technology . We then enumerate problems such as weather, climate change, unstable rainfall patterns and insect / pest . After a long discussion, we then choose to solve the most common problem in the field which is the manifestation of insect / pest . We then researched for the most restless crop destroyer in the field and turned out that it was the Leafhopper .
Manifestation of the insect are the most common problems of farmers . Wasted crops due to pest are unstoppable and can effect 35 to 43 percent of the total possible yield of the crops . Continuous used of insecticides can cause mutation of insect, can harm the environment, and can cause the insect to develop their immune system as time pass .
As a result, we came up with a techy way to elimate the leaf hoppers or also known as “talakitik” and that is an insect trap that will instantly kills the insect . Knowing that the leafhoppers and other insect are attracted to light, we then used light as a trap and soround it by wires which is connected to a battery that surely kills the Leafhopper causing it to stop reproducing . As a reflection to our product and what problem it can solve, we named our company Farmtorch and came up with a tagline ” keep the light on and protect crops from pest “.
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