DCx AgriTech & GeoSpatial Intelligence Hub

◆ Inside the DCx ecosystem

One venture · one family of capabilities

AgriTech does not start from scratch. It is the geospatial-intelligence specialist within the DCx Co., Ltd portfolio — drawing on the data-science core, the AI/ML practice, the LABx STEAM programs and the consortium's project track record. The same brand, the same governance, the same standards — focused on agriculture.

PARENT DCx Global Data science, GIS & digital transformation — the parent consortium. SOLUTIONS AI · GIS · MIS DCx's AI / machine-learning, GIS, blockchain and data-engineering services. LABx STEAM R&D Geo, Drone, Electric, STEAM, Data & Bio — including AgriTech & space-tech R&D. SISTER CashEW Agri-fintech sister brand — wallet, marketplace, traceability, rural credit. SISTER DCx Alpha Properties Real estate, agritourism & engineering — sister brand within the consortium.

The Leapfrog Thesis

From Agriculture 2.0 straight to 5.0 – 7.0

Cambodia doesn't have to climb every rung. Just as it leapfrogged fixed-line telephony straight to mobile, it can leapfrog directly into digital, data-driven agriculture. The enabling conditions are already in place — ~57% internet penetration, ~145% mobile penetration, a youthful population and 5G roll-out. The missing piece is an organisation that can deliver 4.0/5.0/7.0 capability as affordable services. That is AgriTech.

Global agriculture has moved through seven generations — from Traditional 1.0 (human and animal power) and Mechanization 2.0 (tractors and chemical inputs), through Automation 3.0 and Precision Farming 4.0, to AI & Big Data 5.0, Nano- & Biotech 6.0 and the emerging Future Agriculture 7.0 (autonomous farms, digital twins, blockchain traceability, carbon-smart regenerative agriculture).

Cambodian agriculture sits predominantly at Generation 2.0, with only pockets reaching 3.0 and 4.0. ~2.1 million smallholder households farm an average of 1.2 ha each. The 2024 diesel-price spike pushed some smallholders back toward draught animals; conservation agriculture covers ~0.12% of agricultural land. Precision tools exist only in donor pilots like CAPRED.

The productivity gap is not ambition — it is the missing data, intelligence and service layer between the farm and modern technology. AgriTech is deliberately built to be that layer.

The Dream A Cambodia where every cooperative and commune has a geospatial and AI intelligence layer, where land-use planning, carbon accounting and traceability are digital and trusted, and where a generation of Cambodian drone pilots, GIS analysts and data scientists has been trained at home.

Roadmap of Agricultural Development — the 7 generations from Pre-Modern 0.0 through Traditional 1.0, Mechanization 2.0 (where Cambodia sits today), Automation 3.0, AI 4.0, Data-Intelligence 5.0, Nanotechnology 6.0, to Smart Agriculture 7.0. Each milestone shown with timeline, illustrations and impact pillars: food security, rural prosperity, environmental sustainability, economic growth, resilient communities. — **Cambodia at 2.0.** The leap from mechanization to AI-driven, regenerative agriculture is a generational opportunity — and the path AgriTech is built to deliver.

◆ How AgriTech enables the leap at each generation

4.0 Precision

Donor pilots only

UAV survey, GPS/GIS mapping, plantation assessment, precision-spray advisory — delivered as a service.

5.0 AI & Big Data

Nascent · fragmented

Agri-intelligence platform — crop-health dashboards, yield analytics, disease prediction, mobile advisory.

6.0 Nano & Biotech

Largely absent

Trials monitoring & traceability for biofortified inputs — partnership-based, not core.

7.0 Future Revolution

Aspirational

Carbon MRV, blockchain-ready traceability, roadmap to digital-twin farms & carbon marketplace.

Service Portfolio

Six revenue streams · one integrated stack

Project-based services generate near-term cash and reference projects; the subscription platform builds recurring revenue; the academy develops talent — and feeds the team. The revenue mix shifts over the plan: UAV & GIS dominate early; carbon MRV and the intelligence platform become the principal growth engines by 2030.

01 · UAV Survey

Drone survey & mapping

Land, topographic & Commune Land-Use Planning (CLUP) mapping; plantation assessment; RTK ground-control. SSCA-permitted operations under Decree No. 1644.

$500 – 2,000 / day

02 · GIS & Mapping

GIS & remote sensing

Land-use, forest, fisheries and carbon mapping at landscape scale. Satellite imagery, classification, change detection, dashboards.

$5,000 – 50,000 / project

03 · Intelligence Platform

Agri-intelligence SaaS

Crop-health dashboard, weather analytics, disease prediction. Subscription delivery to cooperatives, exporters and government — mobile-first.

$10 – 100 / farm / month

04 · Carbon & MRV

Carbon & climate MRV

Baselines, MRV systems, satellite monitoring, verification support. Positioned as an independent MRV provider — fee-based, not exposed to credit prices.

$ per project · 5–6 figures

05 · Digital Traceability

Provenance at scale

Cashew, coffee, fisheries, organic rice. QR codes, batch IDs, EUDR-ready records — integrated with the FarmsNexus and CashEW ecosystems.

$10,000 – 100,000 / project

06 · Academy

The AgriTech Academy

Drone pilot, GIS, AI for agriculture, KoboToolbox, carbon accounting. Builds a domestic talent pipeline and serves as a revenue line.

$100 – 1,000 / trainee

◆ Field evidence

The same drones we deploy for clients · flown over our own farm

A short flight from our team's own land in Cambodia. UAV Survey is the first service pillar — it isn't a brochure capability. It's the operation our team runs day-to-day, with the same equipment, same SSCA-permitted flight discipline and same delivery pipeline that goes into a client engagement.

◆ Field flight · Cambodia

What you're watching is the everyday output of the AgriTech UAV practice — a survey-grade drone mission over our own land. The same workflow scales to government CLUP mapping, plantation assessment for cashew or coffee, and forest / carbon baseline flights.

▸ Equipment

RTK + multispectral UAV stack

▸ Compliance

SSCA-permitted · Decree 1644

▸ Output

Ortho · DSM · canopy · crop-health layers

▸ Operated by

DCx Co., Ltd · field-trained pilots

▶ Watch on YouTube ↗

◆ Platform evidence · Live production portals

GIS portals we've built · GeoServer + PostGIS + React

Two national geospatial portals DCx built and hosts for Cambodia's Community Fisheries (CFi) and Community Fish Refuges (CFR) — production apps on our own GeoServer stack, backed by PostGIS with React front-ends. Each card previews the live at-a-glance data; click to open the full interactive portal. This is what service pillar 02 (GIS & Mapping) looks like as a shipped product, available for your next commissioned engagement.

Live · GeoServer Open ↗

CFi in Cambodia infographic — total CFIs, MAFF registration, membership, inland and coastal fishing area covered by the DCx GeoServer + PostGIS + React portal

▸ Portal 01 · Community Fishery

CFi Cambodia Portal ↗

Community Fisheries (CFis) are Cambodia's locally-managed fishing grounds — communities co-manage inland lakes, floodplains and coastal mangroves for long-term food security. DCx built and hosts the national CFi portal that maps every registered CFi, its area, membership and governance — open data for planners, donors and the communities themselves.

◆ Origin · 2021–2025

First version developed by Open Development Cambodia (ODC) under FAO's CAPFISH Capture programme — Complementary Support to the Cambodia Programme for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in the Fisheries Sector — with Dane So (DCx CEO) serving as FAO Technical Advisor for the Fisheries Information Management System (FIMS).

GeoServer PostGIS React WMS · WFS Vector tiles

cfi.analyticalx.org Visit live portal

Live · GeoServer Open ↗

Community Fish Refuge (CFR) in Cambodia infographic — refuge distribution across all 25 provinces mapped by the DCx GeoServer + PostGIS + React portal

▸ Portal 02 · Community Fish Refuge

CFR Cambodia Portal ↗

Community Fish Refuges (CFRs) are the sanctuaries that keep Cambodia's inland fisheries alive — dry-season shelters where broodstock survive to repopulate rice-fields and rivers in the wet season. DCx built and hosts the national CFR portal, mapping every refuge, its committee and its coverage in one open geospatial layer for MAFF, donors and communities.

◆ Origin · 2021–2025

First version developed by Open Development Cambodia (ODC) under FAO's CAPFISH Capture programme — Complementary Support to the Cambodia Programme for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in the Fisheries Sector — with Dane So (DCx CEO) serving as FAO Technical Advisor for the Fisheries Information Management System (FIMS).

GeoServer PostGIS React WMS · WFS Vector tiles

cfr.analyticalx.org Visit live portal

◆ Same reusable stack behind both portals: GeoServer for OGC-standard map services, PostGIS for the spatial database, and a React front-end for the interactive experience. Available for any commissioned Cambodia GIS engagement — fisheries, agriculture, land use, hydrology, protected areas.

Market Opportunity

Four buyer pools · already procuring

AgriTech is built around demand that already exists across Cambodia — government, development partners, private sector and climate buyers. The DCx + ADIC network is already inside the procurement channels for each segment.

Segment 01

Government

MAFF · FiA · MLMUPC · MoE · NCDDS

Agricultural statistics, crop monitoring, CLUP, fisheries-resource maps, protected-area & forest mapping, commune planning. Active programmes with ADB, GAFSP and CAPRED.

Segment 02

Development Partners

USD 10–20M / yr

World Bank, ADB, IFAD, FAO, GIZ, JICA, UNDP, EU, USAID — survey, mapping, baseline, MRV and digital-agriculture consulting. Procurement channels DCx is already inside.

Segment 03

Private Sector

USD 5–10M / yr

Cashew (~700K ha, USD 1.15B exports 2024), coffee, rubber, mango, agroforestry — plantation mapping, yield assessment, traceability. CashEW is the fintech bridge into the cashew chain.

Segment 04

Carbon & Climate

USD 11.6M earned

Cambodia earned ~USD 11.6M from voluntary carbon credits (2016–2020) via Southern Cardamom and other REDD+ projects. AgriTech sells independent MRV, not credits.

Why AgriTech wins

DCx leads · ADIC partners · FarmsNexus connects

Most survey firms offer drones and mapping but lack agricultural extension, community engagement and development-consulting depth. Software firms lack field delivery. AgriTech unites both — difficult to replicate and directly aligned with how government and donor procurement is scoped.

◆ Lead · DCx Co., Ltd

The technology owner

DCx leads the venture: software engineering, data systems, GIS & remote sensing, AI / analytics, digital-platform delivery. DCx owns the technology roadmap and holds the commercial and operational mandate — single accountable owner, clear governance.

Geospatial & remote-sensing software stack
AI / ML models for crop health, disease and yield
Digital products: dashboards, mobile, MIS, blockchain traceability
Project & client delivery to donors and government

◆ Strategic Partner · ADIC

The field & community arm

ADIC contributes agricultural and rural-development field experience, community engagement, cooperative access, natural-resource governance and development-consulting credibility — capabilities essential to winning and delivering government and donor work.

Agricultural extension and community engagement
Cooperative & producer-group relationships
Development consulting, M&E and participatory research
Government & donor relationship depth

And FarmsNexus connects. AgriTech sits inside a deliberate two-venture portfolio shared by DCx and ADIC. FarmsNexus is the integrated agriculture-ecosystem platform joining farmers, cooperatives, buyers and institutions. AgriTech supplies its geospatial & data-intelligence backbone — UAV mapping, GIS layers, crop analytics, traceability and MRV. CashEW adds the fintech rail.

Technology & Operations

An integrated stack, delivered as a disciplined workflow

Modular architecture, so each service line can be delivered independently or combined into integrated engagements. Every engagement follows the same workflow: scope & SSCA permitting → field capture → processing & analysis → QA → client delivery.

▸ UAV

RTK & multispectral drones

DJI Mavic 3 Enterprise RTK + multispectral platforms for high-resolution survey and crop health.

▸ Ground control

RTK GNSS

Emlid RS3 RTK survey equipment — centimetre-grade ground control for accurate ortho & CLUP outputs.

▸ GIS

Remote sensing & analysis

Open-source & commercial GIS stack, satellite imagery (Sentinel / Planet), change detection, dashboards.

▸ AI / ML

Crop, disease & yield

Models for crop-health detection, disease prediction and yield estimation — DCx's AI / ML practice.

▸ Field collection

KoboToolbox & mobile

Mobile-first, offline-capable field surveys for ground-truthing & community-participatory data.

▸ Delivery

Cloud dashboards

Cloud servers, dashboards, MRV documentation. Modular delivery — independent service lines or integrated.

Case study · In production

Open-source toolchain · production cartography

A recent DCx data-science feasibility study delivered a parcel-level land-use inventory across ~10,000 ha of the Battambang / Chul Kiri irrigation district. The pipeline was assembled entirely from open-source geospatial tools — orchestrated through QGIS & Python, segmented with Meta's Segment Anything Model, and shipped as a print-ready cartographic PDF.

◆ Area ~10,000 ha ◆ Tiles 110 × 1 km² ◆ Geography Battambang · Chul Kiri ◆ Resolution Sub-metre · Sentinel-2 · WorldCover 10 m ◆ Compute PyTorch · CUDA GPU

QGIS canvas — per-parcel land-use tagging with SAM-segmented field boundaries overlaid on satellite imagery and OpenStreetMap infrastructure for the Battambang / Chul Kiri irrigation district — **Per-parcel land-use tagging.** Yellow polygons are field boundaries automatically delineated by Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM) via *segment-geospatial*, each tagged from the ESA WorldCover and Sentinel-2 layers — overlaid on the OpenStreetMap canal & built-up network for the Chul Kiri irrigation command area.

QGIS interface — NDVI land-cover classification with Sentinel-2 spectral bands, WorldCover 10 m raster, and OSM road/canal/built-up vectors layered for analysis — **NDVI + WorldCover classification.** Sentinel-2 spectral bands processed into an NDVI classification raster, layered over the WorldCover 10 m land-cover grid and the OSM road / canal / lake network. Greens read as crop & tree cover; reds & oranges resolve built-up and bare ground. Every layer in this canvas — analysis, basemap, vectors — is open-source.

◆ Technology stack · the full open-source pipeline

This land-use inventory was produced entirely with open-source geospatial tools orchestrated through QGIS and Python (PyQGIS in a dedicated Conda environment). Satellite imagery was sourced on demand — Sentinel-2 surface reflectance via the Earth Search STAC API and sub-metre Esri World Imagery tiles — and combined with the ESA WorldCover 10 m global land-cover product and OpenStreetMap infrastructure data (Overpass API). Individual field/parcel boundaries were delineated automatically using Meta's Segment Anything Model (SAM) via the segment-geospatial (samgeo) library, running on PyTorch with GPU (CUDA) acceleration to process the ~10,000 ha area as 110 one-square-kilometre tiles. Geometry handling, raster sampling, and the per-parcel land-use tagging used GDAL, rasterio, and GeoPandas, with Matplotlib for the summary chart, and the final cartographic layout (map, legend, scale bar, north arrow, statistics) was assembled and exported to print-ready PDF with the QGIS Print Layout engine.

Programme Roadmap

Cambodia · Mekong · ASEAN

Three sequenced phases — each one de-risked by the previous, each one expanding the service footprint. Reference projects compound into framework agreements; framework agreements compound into platform reach.

Phase 01 · 2026 – 2027

Establish & reference

Cambodia · build the core team

Stand up UAV survey, GIS services and the agriculture-intelligence platform. Secure SSCA permits. Win first government & donor reference projects with MAFF, FiA, MLMUPC, MoE and NCDDS.

▸ Cambodia · National

Phase 02 · 2028 – 2030

Scale & recur

Cambodia + Laos + Vietnam

Scale carbon monitoring, climate analytics & digital traceability. Expand into Laos and Vietnam through partnerships. Convert one-off projects into recurring platform subscriptions.

▸ Mekong corridor

Phase 03 · 2031 – 2035

Regional platform

ASEAN · multi-commodity

Regional AI-agriculture platform, digital-twin farms, carbon marketplace, full smart-agriculture ecosystem reaching across ASEAN producing economies.

▸ ASEAN · Multi-commodity

Ways to engage

Four ways to work with AgriTech

Whether you're a ministry commissioning a survey, a donor scoping a programme, an exporter that needs provenance, or a partner exploring co-investment — there is a defined door for each conversation. DCx-led, ADIC-anchored, FarmsNexus-connected.

▸ 01 · Commission a project

For government, donors, exporters, plantations. UAV survey, GIS & CLUP mapping, plantation assessment, carbon MRV, digital traceability or an integrated multi-service engagement. SSCA-permitted operations, community-participatory delivery via ADIC, full compliance documentation.

▸ 02 · Subscribe to the platform

For cooperatives, processors, exporters, ministries. Crop-health dashboards, weather analytics, disease prediction, yield estimation — delivered on subscription, mobile-first, offline-capable. Roll-out via cooperative or value-chain partner.

▸ 03 · Train your team

For ministries, NGOs, agribusinesses, universities. The AgriTech Academy — certified drone-pilot training, GIS & remote sensing, AI for agriculture, KoboToolbox & carbon accounting. Cohort and tailored corporate formats.

▸ 04 · Partner or co-invest

For ecosystem partners and aligned investors. Strategic partners who want to extend AgriTech into their geography, sector or institutional programme — and qualified co-investors who want to back the venture — talk to us directly. The detailed business plan, financial model and terms are kept as confidential documents and shared on request.

Turn Cambodia from follower
into regional example.

The leap from Agriculture 2.0 to 5.0–7.0 is technical, but the decisive ingredient is an organisation that can deliver the technology as a service. DCx leads it. ADIC anchors it. FarmsNexus channels it. CashEW finances it. Start a conversation about where you fit.

Email the team → Partner with DCx Global

◆ Full business plan, financial model and partnership terms shared privately with qualified partners and investors on request.