Florida Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services Selects AgEagle’s HempOverview for Managing Statewide Hemp Farming Re...
November 12 2019 - 8:30AM
AgEagle Aerial Systems Inc. (NYSE American: UAVS),
an industry leading provider of advanced aerial imagery and data
collection and analytics solutions, today announced that the
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) has
chosen AgEagle’s HempOverview software-as-a-solution (SaaS)
platform to manage the online application submission and
registration process for hemp growers and their farms and hemp
fields for the 2020, 2021 and 2022 planting seasons.
Holly Bell, Florida’s Director of Cannabis,
stated, “Our Department and Commissioner Nikki Fried are committed
to building the nation’s best state hemp program, which includes
the regulatory infrastructure to get permits in hand and seeds in
the ground. With thousands of growers expected to apply for permits
for the 2020 planting season, we look forward to working closely
with AgEagle to ensure that our online registration platform is
fully operational and ready to begin issuing permits in the coming
months.”
Through a dedicated landing page to be
accessible through the State’s government website, HempOverview
will require each applicant to input data, including personal
contact information for its farm operators. In addition to specific
data to be collected by the State, HempOverview will also capture
field boundaries via a map tool interface whereby applicants can
draw their exact field boundaries. The tool is designed to offer
growers the ability to quickly and easily plot the field extent in
its exact-to-be-planted shape, helping to gather precise
measurement of acreage to be planted; then the application will
directly record the required GPS coordinates from HempOverview’s
mapping interface. This method complies with new state guidelines
and will reduce the recordkeeping burden on Florida’s farming
community. Following submission, applicants can save and return to
their application during a State-approved time window until
applications are no longer being accepted for a specific growing
season.
Commenting on the State of Florida becoming the
first customer of HempOverview, Barrett Mooney, Chief Executive
Officer of AgEagle, noted, “To our knowledge, there is no other
SaaS solution available on the market today – particularly one that
has been developed by an AgTech company with the level of
experience and expertise of AgEagle – that provides the
multi-faceted level of support and services that HempOverview
offers to all stakeholders in the industry. We are very proud that
the nation’s third largest agricultural state has chosen to team
with us to help accelerate growth of hemp cultivation in Florida –
a Florida crop projected to yield hundreds of millions of dollars
in hemp sales over the next several years.”
To learn more about AgEagle’s HempOverview
solution, please visit
https://www.ageagle.com/analytics for more
information.
About AgEagle Aerial Systems,
Inc.
Founded in 2010 and based in Neodesha, Kansas,
AgEagle has earned distinction as one of the industry's leading
pioneers of technologically advanced aerial imagery-based data
collection and analytics solutions. We are trusted to help the
world's growers, consumer packaged goods companies and their supply
chain partners, and urban green managers proactively assess and
manage the health of commercial crops and green infrastructure,
reduce the chemicals in produced foods and products and preserve
and protect natural resources. In addition, we are at the leading
edge of providing state and territorial departments of agriculture,
growers and processors with registration, oversight,
compliance/enforcement, and reporting solutions relating to the
United States' emerging hemp cultivation industry. For more
information, please
visit www.ageagle.com.
Contacts:
Gateway Investor Relations Cody
SlachSean MansouriPhone: 949-574-3860Email: UAVS@gatewayIR.com
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