Welcome to Pomona!

At a recent meeting of the Mid Kent growers, Chairman, Nigel Bardsley unveiled a new database that will revolutionise the way the co-operatives orchard data is collected.

Pomona, a custom built data base designed by Ether Creative will allow members of Mid Kent Growers to enter all their farm and orchard information into a web based system. John Evans, Vice-Chairman said “this will be a wonderful tool for all our members and will help move the grower co-operative into a stronger and more streamlined P.O.”

For the first time the member growers’ will be able to submit their planting, grubbing, crop estimates and picking figures directly via this online system. This unique solution will enable them to plan forthcoming crops more efficiently and make their farm business future proof. Ether Creative were delighted when representatives of the group approached them to come up with a solution for the co-operative. Alex Collins, Ether Creative Director said “The first step of the project was to build the front facing website with a full Content Management System, enabling the Mid Kent Grower administration team to easily update the content” he continued, “The second and more difficult task was to design and build the database”.

The database built using PHP and Msql, provides a secure login area for each individual member where they can access specified information and allow input of crop/yield and storage figures.

It also has the ability to generate a report across all members to show the data from each member as one document that can be exported to Excel as well as generating reports specific to each member.

At the meeting on Wednesday 26th January, members were able to discuss both the website and database and had some very useful feedback and were looking forward to the new direction the grower co-operative are taking.

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