An application born from the meeting of the land and technology
Our vision
To support the spread of a sustainable agriculture, sparing with resources and regenerative for the land.
Our mission
To bring technical solutions to professional market gardeners, to increase their yield and their profitability without sacrificing sound practices.
Why PermaTechnics exists
Eating healthy, local food should not be a luxury. PermaTechnics exists to strengthen our food autonomy, by giving market garden farms committed to organic and responsible farming the means to produce more efficiently without losing any of the quality of their produce.
Small and medium market garden farms are also the best placed to meet ecological and climate challenges: fewer inputs, less water, soils that regenerate. But this farming demands more manual work, and widens the gap with large farms. PermaTechnics is there to give small structures a high-performing management tool, without asking them to give up their sound practices.
As an example, nitrogen fertilisers are largely lost as nitrites (groundwater pollution) or as nitrous oxide, a gas 296 times more warming than CO2.
Our values
Informed transmission.
What we learn in the field goes into the tool, and from the tool to you.
Active closeness.
A French and Belgian team, reachable, which makes the application evolve according to your feedback.
Respect for living things and for the climate.
A tool at the service of a farming that regenerates rather than exhausts, and that weighs less on the climate.
Our promise
A tool designed with you, for you: precise without being complex, discreet but reliable, so that you can grow what matters with a clear head.
Our story
The idea germinates in 2015, matures over two years of immersion with Belgian market gardeners, and takes shape when the skills come together: management and finance, technology, product, and the hand of a market gardener. The starting choice: begin with Belgian market gardeners, understand them, their land and their constraints, before going any further.
Read how the application came about
The trial ground
A 4 hectare plot at Dion-Valmont serves as a real laboratory. Changes to the application are tested there in market gardening conditions before they reach you.
The team
Jean-Marie Arnould
founder and CEO
Economist by training, long experience of financial management with technology start-ups.
Didrik Pinte
co-founder and CTO
Bioengineer, expertise in data modelling and in the management of agri-environmental data.
Nicolas Heinrich-Thuet
product manager
Bioengineer, graduate of UCLouvain, experience in market gardening and in modelling.
Morgan Alexandre
master market gardener
Extensive experience of market gardening on living soil, of sales, and of implementing time-saving solutions for market gardeners.
Donovan Benfouzari
senior developer
Fifteen years of designing high-performance web applications.
Alexia Trouillet
sales and marketing
Master’s degree in communication, experience in promotion, sales and customer relations.
Raquel De Freitas
UX/UI specialist
Designs the interface of the application and its design system.
They use PermaTechnics every day
"PermaTechnics saves us valuable time by giving us an overview of the whole season. What I particularly like is the impact on the team: by interacting directly with the tasks in the application, they are far more involved."
Emilie Verkaeren
À la mode de chez nous
"Thanks to this tool I plan my whole season in winter, then I manage the daily work easily with a shared schedule for the whole team. Crop schedules, workload, harvest time, yields, everything is in one place."
Cédric Saccone
La Ferme au Moulin
Like to talk about it?
Write to us at info@permatechnics.com or request a demo.