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Industry pack: Agriculture ​

Agriculture adds what a agriculture organisation needs on top of HCM Core: seasonal worker, harvest output, farm certificate, farm incident. Every screen carries charts, and the Overview answers the questions this industry asks first. It works with the people already in HCM Core and Employee; it changes nothing there.

Overview

1. Who uses it ​

RoleWhat they do
Farm / estate managerPlans seasonal labour and reads cost per hectare.
Crew leaderChecks pesticide and machinery certificates before work.
HR / complianceTracks housing, safety and worker documents.

2. Before you start ​

  • Installed plugin: hcm-industry-agriculture (free tier; needs HCM Foundation and Employee). No licence feature has to be granted.
  • Access: tenant administrators can use every screen; the Overview needs a tenant administrator or Report.View.
  • Trial data: in a trial tenant, generate the Agriculture industry pack in Demo Data: 10 seasonal worker, 12 harvest output, 10 farm certificate, 6 farm incident.

3. Set up ​

  1. Open Agriculture > Seasonal Workers and register each worker with crop and season.
  2. Record Harvest Output per crew per day (weight picked, hours worked).
  3. Record Certificates (pesticide handling, tractor operation, food safety).
  4. Record Farm Incidents.

4. Daily use ​

4.1 Seasonal worker ​

A seasonal or casual farm worker, the crop and season they work, and whether they return. Open Seasonal worker in the sidebar under Industry Pack, Agriculture. Choose Add seasonal worker to add a record, click a row to change or delete it. The fields are: worker, crop, season, start date, returning.

Seasonal worker

4.2 Harvest output ​

Weight picked and hours worked by a crew on a day. Yield per hour is the productivity figure. Open Harvest output in the sidebar under Industry Pack, Agriculture. Choose Add harvest output to add a record, click a row to change or delete it. The fields are: crew, crop, date, kilograms picked, hours worked.

Harvest output

4.3 Farm certificate ​

Certificates needed to apply pesticide, drive machinery or handle food. Open Farm certificate in the sidebar under Industry Pack, Agriculture. Choose Add farm certificate to add a record, click a row to change or delete it. The fields are: worker, certificate, status, expires on.

Farm certificate

4.4 Farm incident ​

Injuries, near misses and chemical exposures on the farm. Open Farm incident in the sidebar under Industry Pack, Agriculture. Choose Report farm incident to add a record, click a row to change or delete it. The fields are: incident, type, area, occurred on.

Farm incident

5. Charts, reports and exports ​

FigureWhat it counts
Seasonal workers
Returning workers %
Kilograms per labour hour
Certificates valid %
Incidents, last 12 months
Kilograms per hour by crewPicking productivity
Seasonal workers by cropWhere the labour goes
Certificate statusValid, expiring, expired
Incidents by typeInjury and exposure events

Every list page also has charts of its own records (by status or category, and a trend), and the platform grid offers search, paging, column choice and export.

6. On a phone or tablet ​

Every screen works on a phone: tiles, charts and lists stack one per row, and the add and edit dialogs fit the screen.

Overview on a phone

7. Rules and limits ​

  • Piece-rate pay and minimum-wage top-ups follow national rules and are not calculated here.
  • Worker housing and transport are not modelled: record them in your own register if you provide them.
  • The figures are only as good as the records entered. Benchmarks differ between sources, so none is hard-coded as a target: read the figures against your own history.

8. Troubleshooting ​

SymptomCause and fix
A chart says "Nothing to show yet"No records yet, or none with the date or category the chart needs. Add records or generate the demo pack.
The Overview says forbiddenYour login is not a tenant administrator and lacks Report.View.
A screen is missing from the sidebarThe plugin is not installed for this tenant. Ask a platform administrator to install hcm-industry-agriculture.