Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Food, Ireland

Since the initial GIS implementation Mallon Technology have been re-awarded the contract to process land parcel updates up to and including the current contract.  We currently have a team working on a split-site operation in Agriculture offices in Dublin and Portlaoise and we are in our sixteenth year of working with the Department.

Approximately 133,000 farmers submitted Single Payment Scheme applications to the Irish Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in 2009 in respect of approximately 1,000,000 land parcels. Our team is responsible for the update of the Land Parcel Identification System with new parcels and boundary changes declared by farmers on maps, which they will submit with their 2010 Single Payment Scheme applications. This includes the permanent sub-division and merging of existing parcels, which generates new parcel numbers and the redlining of non-eligible features within parcels. The project also includes the digitisation of control inspections cases, an audit of land parcels against current orthophotography and digitisation of Forestry contracts. It is estimated that 50,000 SPS applicants will submit maps identifying new parcels and/or parcels with non-eligible features for scheme year 2010.

Benefits
Mallon Technology provides the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food with a project team that has individual LPIS and other GIS project related experience ranging from 2 years to 15 years. The team have extensive experience in spatial systems, cadastral mapping and orthophotography and to follow the required procedures and processes to produce high standard of quality.

The digitised land parcels are used by the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in administering CAP payments quickly and efficiently while ensuring all payments are correct and comply with EU regulations.