Case Study: Stara boosts crop quality and yield with Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin

Stara improves global food supply with smart machines

Microsoft Corporation helped Stara, a leading South American farm equipment manufacturer, upgrade the legacy devices and operating systems for its intelligent farm machinery. The challenge was to develop a new solution with the precision, performance, and quality critical for controlling their equipment while leveraging their existing in-house .NET development skills.

The solution from Microsoft was built using Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin. This allowed Stara's team to port their legacy application to Android in just three months, reusing 95 percent of their original code. The results were substantial, automating nuanced farm activities to reduce farmers’ costs by 30 percent, increase worker safety, and provide data-driven insights that lead to higher quality crops and greater yield.

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