Farm Compliance Software for UAE Farms

The platform supports the four bodies UAE farms commonly interact with: ADAFSA (Abu Dhabi Agriculture and Food Safety Authority) for farm registration, livestock identification, veterinary medicine, and food traceability programmes; Dubai Municipality Food Safety Department for Dubai Food Code 2.0 obligations and Foodwatch food handler records; MOCCAE for federal Food Safety Law 10/2015, animal-movement permits, and animal-welfare records; and MOIAT for ECAS standards where farm produce intersects with Emirates Conformity Assessment requirements. Each regulator's records are held in the structure that regulator expects.

Dubai Food Code 2.0 (12 July 2023) section 8.10 requires food businesses to demonstrate traceability one step forward and one step back. For a farm supplying retailers and hospitality, that means every despatch lot carries its origin (the plot or pen), its treatments and inputs, its harvest or processing date, and its destination. When Dubai Municipality or a retailer asks about lot 2026-05-186, the platform returns origin plot, treatments applied, harvest date, and the despatch lot - all from continuous records, not assembled per-query.

Federal Law 10/2015 Article 9 sets maximum penalties up to AED 2 million for food safety non-compliance. The exposure comes from gaps that paper records cannot close: untracked treatments, missed withdrawal periods, traceability that breaks at the despatch point, food-handler records that lapse. The platform addresses each: structured medicine register, automated withdrawal-period clearance, continuous lot traceability, food-handler renewals flagged ahead of expiry. The AED 2M scenario becomes near-impossible to trigger.

Foodwatch is Dubai Municipality's online platform for food businesses - food handler registrations, training renewals, and inspection events. FIEMIS (Food Inspection and Establishment Management System) handles establishment registration and inspection records. The platform references Foodwatch certification data and FIEMIS establishment records, flagging renewals before expiry and capturing inspection events against the establishment record. Where Foodwatch or FIEMIS expose API access, the integration is direct; where they don't, the platform tracks the data farms upload to those systems.

ADAFSA carried out 103,895 inspections in 2023 across Abu Dhabi - frequent, structured, and outcome-driven. Inspectors look at farm registration data, livestock identification (TAMM tags), veterinary medicine records, traceability of produce, animal welfare conditions, and food-safety practices where the farm processes its own produce. The platform supports this by holding each domain in regulator-aligned structure, generating a daily inspection-pack export, and tracking inspection findings through to closure. The inspector arrives to a structured record rather than a paper scramble.

Every inspection finding - whether ADAFSA, Dubai Municipality, MOCCAE, or internal audit - is captured as a discrete record with the source regulator, the specific finding, the action required, the action owner, the due date, and the evidence of resolution. Open findings appear on the farm manager's dashboard. Closed findings are archived with the closure evidence. The same paperwork gaps don't recur because the closure discipline runs through the platform - rather than relying on someone to remember between inspections.

Yes - the compliance platform sits alongside whatever the holding already runs for finance and operations. Where ADAFSA or MOCCAE records intersect with finance (e.g. vet invoices, purchase records for veterinary products, lot-level supply records), the platform reads from the existing system rather than duplicating. Integration depth is decided during Discovery based on what's in place.

Yes - and this is the sensible path. Most holdings start with the area carrying the highest exposure (typically Federal Law 10/2015 traceability and ADAFSA livestock records), get the core records discipline embedded over 6-8 weeks, then add Dubai Food Code 2.0 traceability, Foodwatch renewals, and findings-closure workflow as later phases. The Discovery Report maps the phasing explicitly so the owner can prioritise risk reduction over feature completeness.