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Executive Summary 1
Design solution 8
Strategy 9-17
Design process 18
Team roles 19
References 20
Annexes 21
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Recently Thai people concern more on their health and tend to consume non-toxic fruits and vegetables but not
realized that the products they consumed contained pesticide residues which are a major effect to consumers due
to their negative health. What they consume in each day without considering the following health effects definitely
affects their healths in long term. However, there are also people who tend to consume organic products but it is
difficult to access. Most people do not know where to buy them even the supermarkets already provide some
organic products but there are just few so they stop finding it. Moreover, they misunderstand and have no skills in
choosing organic products so the products they got might not be the real organic.
When they choose the products, most of them cannot separate between non-toxic and organic products.
Non-toxic vegetables are produced with no pesticides but not a 100% safe from residues since there is a use of
chemical fertilizer to grow the products. Organic vegetables is processed in a natural method with no chemicals
and pesticides but only organic fertilizer and compost are used in the soil. Also use their existing herbs to
eliminate insects, making every process environmental friendly so the products are 100% natural and safe.
This affects to a higher production cost than other kinds of vegetables in the market but the shapes may not
looking as good as those that used pesticides because of the insect bites.
The advantages are the fresher, more delicious, longer storing, more nutritions products that truly come from
nature. Moreover, the farmers would be healthier in which theres no dangerous chemicals in organic farming and
they would get higher income compared to the conventional farming that the products are in low prices.
Me Farm Suk is an online marketplace that connects between farmers and consumers. We gather many different
organic products such as fresh vegetables, fruits, meat, processed food, etc. which our products are guaranteed
from famous organic organizations including Organic Thailand, USDA, IFOAM, and ACT. Moreover, there are
organic events we will open for consumers to directly meet the farmers.
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DESIGN PROBLEM/
OPPORTUNITY
The SDGs aim to end all forms of hunger and It provide foods and also organic products.
malnutrition by 2030, making sure all people It helps organic farmers and consumers to
especially children have access to sufficient equally access the market with no
and nutritious food all year round. This involves classification since everyone is welcome to
promoting sustainable agricultural practices: use the platform and everyone can reach
supporting small scale farmers and allowing the organic products that contains lots of
equal access to land, technology and markets. benefits, high quality and always fresh.
It also requires international cooperation to Allowing both small scale farmers and big
ensure investment in infrastructure and scale farmers use the platform. Also helps
technology to improve agricultural productivity. in promoting sustainable agriculture indirect
Together with the other goals set out here, we way by increase the organic market growth
can end hunger by 2030. to engage farmer to do organic.
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PROBLEM The effects of pesticides on Thai peoples health
The health problems caused by pesticides are a big problem that is violent
in Thailand. It can be separated into 2 types which are acute poisoning that
Recently people concern more on their health and tend the patients react suddenly from touching chemicals such as headache,
diarrhea, vomit, etc. Another type is chronic poisoning which accumulated
to consume organic products. But it is difficult to access. to form other diseases such as cancer, diabetes, dermatitis, etc.
Most people do not know where to buy them even the It does not only affect to farmers but also consumers from consuming
supermarkets already provide some organic products products that contain residues. Thai people could not avoid consuming
chemical residues products which Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and
but there are just few so they stop finding it. Moreover, Department of Medical Sciences cooperated to survey fresh vegetables in
they misunderstand and have no skills in choosing Bangkok and Metropolitan for 359 samples. They found the percentage of
organic products so the products they got might not be chemical residues in fresh that got the certificate and didnt get one which
are 51.8% and 63.7% respectively.
the real organic.
The problems that most consumers have The effects of pesticides on environment
Pesticides can contaminate soil, water, turf, and other vegetation. In
misunderstandings. addition to killing insects or weeds, pesticides can be toxic to a host of
Organic farming standards are the same as those other organisms including birds, fish, beneficial insects, and non-target
from standard of non-chemicals plants. Insecticides are generally the most acutely toxic class of
pesticides, but herbicides can also pose risks to non-target organisms.
Hydroponics is organic farming,
Logo Q is the logo of organic certification Example : Surface water contamination
products, Ground water contamination
And organic agriculture allows the use of GMOs. Soil contamination
Effect on soil fertility (beneficial soil microorganisms)
Contamination of air, soil, and non-target vegetation
Non-target organisms
ORGANIC PROCESS
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Organic farming methods combine scientific knowledge of ecology While organic is fundamentally different from conventional
and modern technology with traditional farming practices based on because of the use of carbon based fertilizers compared with
naturally occurring biological processes. Organic farming methods highly soluble synthetic based fertilizers and biological pest
are studied in the field of agroecology. While conventional agriculture control instead of synthetic pesticides, organic farming and
uses synthetic pesticides and water-soluble synthetically purified large-scale conventional farming are not entirely mutually
fertilizers, organic farmers are restricted by regulations to using exclusive. Many of the methods developed for organic
natural pesticides and fertilizers. An example of a natural pesticide is agriculture have been borrowed by more conventional
pyrethrin, which is found naturally in the Chrysanthemum flower. The agriculture. For example, Integrated Pest Management is a
principal methods of organic farming include crop rotation, green multifaceted strategy that uses various organic methods of pest
manures and compost, biological pest control, and mechanical control whenever possible, but in conventional farming could
cultivation. These measures use the natural environment to enhance include synthetic pesticides only as a last resort
agricultural productivity: legumes are planted to fix nitrogen into the
soil, natural insect predators are encouraged, crops are rotated to Crop diversity
confuse pests and renew soil, and natural materials such as Soil management
potassium bicarbonate and mulches are used to control disease and Weed management
weeds. Genetically modified seeds and animals are excluded. Controlling other organisms
MIDDLE MAN
Effect on Price
Regardless of the important role they play, there are some disadvantages to having intermediaries in the distribution channel. As the goods
are exchanged from one intermediary to the other, their prices inflate. The rationale behind higher prices is to cover expenditures on the
goods such as warehousing, insurance and transportation costs. Intermediaries are also out to make profits, hence they have to include
some profit markup in the sales. Consumers then bear the price of having intermediaries in the channel.
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For Thailand, it is ranked 8th in Asia and 4th in ASEAN. In the year Jaidee Organic Wong Wien Yai, Bangkok Low
Online purchasing has become popular in almost every store which delivering fresh products are totally not their problem since
there is transportation that provides one day delivery. Although the online purchasing is popular, most customers decided to
purchase online after meeting the real farmers or seeing the products to guarantee that they are real organic. This made the
farmers have to be at the event to attract and expand the customer base to be even wider. Another problem was the channels in
products distribution were not enough since organic is popular in just some groups, making the distribution of organic is not as
good as normal products.
CASE STUDIES
Freshket is a supplier that finds one another and buy/sell fresh
ingredients more easily on the internet which helps save time and cost
as well as create new business opportunities for both parties.
Lemon Farm Organic & Natural Food is a Lemon Farm Organic &
Natural Food is a social enterprise. Marketing activities are driving force
a consumer health and help the producers in the countryside. By
combining various organic products to meet the needs of consumers.
Sensing Intuition
Bio Bio Sensing Intuition
Thinking Feeling
Thinking Feeling
Miss Angie is a business owner. She is a Mr. Somchai is an organic farmer.He is a
person who care about her health. She also person who need to produce effective
Judging Perceiving
have a good health since she consumes products and cure some people who faced Judging Perceiving
SKILLS SKILLS
VALUE PROPOSITION
FRESH
INCREASE &
MONEY TRUST HIGH
QUALITY
We are the intermediary that connects farmers and consumers together. The farmers would get
higher revenues than selling to the middleman because it becomes retailing instead. They also have
more opportunity in meeting more customers, more ways of selling and reaching customers which
support them in avoiding price reduction.
For the customers, they would get fresh and clean products that directly come from organic farms
without chemicals. They also get more choices from many sources that are under organic standard to
guarantee that the products are fresh and truly organic.
OPENNESS AND CURATION STRATEGY 9
Who is allowed to join the platform
Customers: People who live at Bangkok and Metropolitan.
Farmers: Organic farmers both who got a certificate and who do not get one but can be proved that they are doing organic.
PARTNERS
Sign up as Customer
Sign up as Farmer
Customer: Purchase organic product in online. People do not have to go out and find
the place that sells organic because all product on the platform and they also can
make an advance order.
Green - You will get the green card after the first purchase and
GAMIFICATION also get promotion codes 10% for the next purchase.
Silver - Reach the purchase of 9,000 per month will get a gift
voucher code 500 baht for discount.
Gold - Reach the purchase of 15,000 per month will get a gift
voucher code 1000 baht for discount.
It will disappear if you could not achieve in the next month.
The green stay still but silver, gold will be lowered to green.
Mock-Up
Facebook
Page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Q2qj2PinrMo&feature=youtu.be
www.facebook.com/
mefarmsuk
MONETIZATION STRATEGY
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Business Model
CUSTOMER CUSTOMER
KEY PARTNERS KEY ACTIVITY VALUE PROPOSITION
RELATIONSHIPS SEGMENTS
Farmers
Selling Platform Serve fresh food
Good quality product Normal people
Kerry Express
Deliver organic products Add new market for farmer
Website self service People who consume
Bangkok Farmer
and fresh products Serve fast in the right time
Payment of credit
organic products.
Market and right place Organic farmer
Platform
Transportation Cost
Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives Fee
Boost Advertising
Size of Opportunity or Market
Transaction Fee
Transportation Cost
10% Additional fees from the price that farmers proposed. Farmers have the right to decide whether pay the fees
by themselves or add the fees to the price they will sell to customers. For example, the farmer earned 4000 baht
for selling tomatoes, we would deduct 10% of the revenue which is counted 400 baht.
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More than
FINANCIAL PLAN
50,000 people
Capital
150,000 Programmer to write the platform.
More than
1,000,000 people From the market size, We want 5% from the total farms
in Thailand which is 656 users and 5% from people
2,500 people to
who eat organic which is 2,500 users. Assumed that 1
join platform
purchased = 50 bath. So we need 3,000 transactions
and we desire we will recovers the cost within 6
months. It means that we need 17 transactions per day.
LAUNCH STRATEGY 15
According to the insights, customers want to see the real products before making a purchase. If they
are satisfied with the products from that shop, they would be confident to purchase them online.
For the farmers, organizes an event to create reliability and stability of our platform to a farmer.
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STAKEHOLDER MAP
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STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS
ACT (Organic Agriculture Certificate Thailand)
It is an independent certification organization established in 1995 by the Alternative Agriculture Network (AAN),NGOs, academic, consumer
organization, media, and green shop network, working on sustainable agriculture.It is to be the quality mark for organic inspection and certification of
international standards, contributing to the well-being of society and sustainable environment.
Organic Thailand
The National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards (ACFS) announced to use Organic Thailand as Thailands standard in 2012.
Mission
1. To strengthen the standard development for agricultural commodity and food products that is corresponding to demands and in consistent with
international guidelines.
2. To strengthen the inspection and certification systems for agricultural commodity and food products that is corresponding with needs and
international requirements.
3. To strengthen the practices of standards throughout the production chain, and the driving of food safety strategy of agricultural commodity and food
products.
4. To strengthen the positions and procedures in negotiating standards, sanitary and phytosanitary measures.
5. To strengthen the control, oversight, and monitoring of the enforcement of Agricultural Standards Act of B.E. 2551.
6. To be the national center of information on agricultural commodity and food products.
These 3 organizations provide certification for organic products before launching in the market
Greenery
They aim to create an online network for consumers who concern on health through easy understanding communication that everyone can reach.
Through the phrase Eat good, live green, they believe that with peoples life limitations, everyone should consider good food that is safe from
chemicals, together with exercising for the best they can do to their healths.
All of them support farmers to do organic. To support high quality, healthy food, organic products, of safe food to provide
reassurance for consumers and other products while protecting and enhancing the environment.
DESIGN PROCESS 18
Stakeholder
Brainstorming User Research Data Analysis
Research
Adding design to all Asking feedback from Using all data that
elements to finish the our real user what they collected from feedback to
website think about our website improve our website
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ME FARM SUK
Canvas 1 : Showing organisation of team alignment meetings ,resolve conflicts, build productive culture and fast.
Everyone can share their idea Due to there are many members in our
and opinion while everybody was group, so it quite difficult to separate
listening without bias. work to each member.
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REFERENCES
Green Net. 2 . .
2016[cite2017 october 2]. Available from: http://www.greennet.or.th/news/1812
. Bangkok Farmer Market. . 2015. [cite2017 November 12] Available From: http://
www.bangkokbiznews.com/news/detail/652914
The United Nations Development Programme. GOAL 2: ZERO HUNGER. UNDP. [cite2017 November 12] Available
From: http://www.undp.org/content/undp/en/home/sustainable-development-goals/goal-2-zero-hunger.html
Customer: Trust
High quality, fresh
and organic foods/
product.
Farmer: Increase Delivery organic Kerry Express
ME FRAM SUK Customer Base
revenue product to their
Bangkok Farmer
Big Data house Market
Credit card
Community of
organic via
organic market