Bidja Cam (BiedjaCam): login and crop plans in Malta

BiedjaCam is ARPA’s mobile app for crop plans, registered parcels and agency messages. Sign in through the official app; this Leafwrit page explains the published steps.

Keep the crop-plan workflow connected to your pesticide and monitoring evidence without merging their purposes. The crop plan identifies what is grown in a parcel. The application record describes the product use that occurred. For Eco-Scheme 2, ARPA’s June 2026 direct-payments guide requires the crop type to be declared in BiedjaCam before submitting the aid application and PPP use on those crops to be recorded.

Activate your account and sign in

1. Open the official ARPA page above and follow its app download route. Prepare your existing IACS registration and the identity and mobile details registered for it.
2. If you are registered with IACS and have no password, use activate account, as the current ARPA instructions call it. The booklet illustrates the activation route with Create Account.
3. Follow the booklet’s sequence: enter your ID card or VAT number and mobile number, generate the verification code, and enter the code received by SMS.
4. Enter and confirm a password, select Finish, then return to the login page. The booklet identifies the username as the ID card or VAT number; sign in with the password you created.
5. If you already activated the account but forgot the password, choose reset password. ARPA identifies that route in its current help page.

Keep the account credentials with the authorised account holder. When preparing an account enquiry, describe the stage that failed without copying a password or SMS code into your farm’s crop-plan file.

Account and crop-plan problems

For an activation enquiry, prepare the registered identity and mobile-number details. For a crop-plan enquiry, keep the affected parcel and crop reference ready. ARPA’s official BiedjaCam instructions are the starting point for these account and submission actions.

Begin with the holding information the booklet identifies

ARPA’s guide says IACS registration information should be correct and up to date, including identity card or VAT details and the mobile number. Its activation sequence uses those identifiers and an SMS verification code before a password is established. Keep the administrative identity distinguishable from the local name a farmer uses for a parcel.

Before working through the published sequence, prepare the details associated with the holding. Identify the person authorised by the business to handle the information. Keep a note of the agency correspondence or account issue that needs resolution. These are practical preparation suggestions, not a statement that this portal can access or modify an ARPA account.

The booklet lists Android or iOS devices with camera, accelerometer, gyroscope and compass sensors, alongside a Google or Apple account, in its device requirements. These are the requirements printed in the cited April 2024 publication. Keep that publication date visible when using its instructions as a reference document.

Understand what each documented function concerns

These functions are listed in ARPA’s booklet. The table is an editorial filing aid; it does not assert that one screen replaces the legally required application information or every scheme document.

Locate the crop plan in the published process

The booklet identifies crop plans as mandatory when applying for Eco-Scheme 1, dedicating parcels to biodiversity and pollination; Eco-Scheme 2, integrated pest management; and Eco-Scheme 3, encouraging bio-mulch. It directs the user to “My Crops” to compile a crop plan without visiting the agency office. Existing crops compiled by ARPA can appear in the list.

For your working preparation, identify which parcel and scheme the crop belongs to. Compare the official parcel reference with the local field-name list. Keep a source document or clarification if the farmer’s usual name does not match the agency description. An understandable reference helps you connect later monitoring and pesticide records to the correct place.

The guide describes adding a crop through the plus sign in the crop page. It says eligible crops for each scheme are found in the relevant scheme guidance. Preserve the scheme document used for the particular application, including its title and date, instead of treating the app’s crop list as an independent explanation of all eligibility conditions.

Separate planted crops from planned crops

The “Add Crop” instructions allow a crop already planted or sown, or one planned for planting or sowing. The booklet says a planting date can automatically generate a harvest date, which can be altered; other details can also be changed if required. This is the documented crop-plan process, not evidence that a particular harvest actually happened on a generated date.

For your records, distinguish a proposed planting, an actual planting and an actual harvest. Preserve the origin of each date when preparing a seasonal explanation. If a planning value later changes, retain the supporting event information in the ordinary farm archive. Do not copy a generated harvest date into an unrelated pesticide event merely because both entries concern the same parcel.

The guide’s search instructions describe filters such as field name, crop, land use or date. Use those categories as a way to prepare a clear enquiry or document index. Record which crop and period you are discussing so an adviser or administrator can find the relevant entry without reviewing every season.

Keep crop-plan and PPP-use information connected

ARPA’s June 2026 direct-payments guide states the Eco-Scheme 2 sequence explicitly: declare the crop type in BiedjaCam before submitting the aid application and record PPP use on those crops. Keep that scheme submission connected to the farm’s underlying application information.

Keep the underlying application information organised by its event reference. Regulation 2023/564 requires the product name and authorisation number, date, dose, location, treated extent and crop or situation, with category-specific details in the Annex. Those information groups describe the completed use independently of how a crop-plan screen presents the parcel.

For a working comparison, select a crop-plan entry and locate the corresponding parcel in the application register. Compare crop wording and relevant dates, then investigate any discrepancy through the actual source records. A change in the planned crop should not silently rewrite the history of a product applied during an earlier crop period.

Know the photographed-evidence distinction between schemes

The current direct-payments guide requires annual BiedjaCam photo evidence for Eco-Scheme 1 and geotagged photos for the particular calendar year for Eco-Scheme 3. The older BiedjaCam booklet describes voluntary crop photos for Eco-Scheme 2; an individual ARPA photo request follows the separate workflow below. For crop photos, add the crop, turn on location, visit the field, take the image, declare the growth stage and save the details.

Keep the image associated with the crop, parcel and scheme it documents. The photograph’s role should be intelligible from the accompanying reference. A crop image and a product-use entry establish different things; a picture of a field alone does not supply the product authorisation identifier or dose in the application-record Annex.

For your own photo inventory, retain the original image and any relevant agency communication. Distinguish a newly captured image from an attachment copied into an office response. Explain the crop or location shorthand used in filenames so a different authorised colleague can identify the evidence without relying on the photographer’s memory.

Respond to an ARPA photo request

Open My Conversations, select the agency’s message and use its location button to reach Geo Photo Requests. ARPA’s instructions show pending markers, which identify where photographs are requested. Visit the field, select the marker and use the camera instructions. A field can have more than one marker.

If the field has no internet connection, ARPA says to switch to offline mode for capture. Reconnect after taking the photos, review the images and notes, and press Submit to send them. ARPA states that photos cannot be deleted and notes cannot be edited after submission. Keep the distinction between a saved image and a submitted response clear when reviewing an outstanding request.

Follow the booklet’s image-quality instructions

ARPA’s published advice calls for multiple photographs, coverage of the subject together with the rest of the field, sufficient distance, different angles and positions, and avoidance of photographs facing the sun or taken in low light. The purpose described is to allow the agency to make a decision from usable images.

Prepare the photographic task by identifying what the particular scheme evidence needs to show. Keep the source instruction with the task description. After capture, review the actual saved images for legibility and context. If a relevant feature is obscured, preserve the original and obtain the required additional evidence through the ordinary process rather than misdescribing what the image shows.

For your photo inventory, name the scheme and subject: the biodiversity planting for Eco-Scheme 1 or the bio-mulch crop for Eco-Scheme 3. The current guide’s photo commitments concern their respective schemes. Keep the image with the matching parcel and calendar year.

Retain agency messages with the application they concern

The booklet lists important reminders, notifications and direct communication with an ARPA officer among the app’s functions. It also describes agency verification of submitted photos and the possibility of amending an application where necessary in that monitoring process. These are features of the documented public workflow.

For the farm’s office file, identify the subject, relevant parcel, scheme and date of a message. Retain any supplied instruction with the response prepared for it. If a clarification concerns only a crop-plan detail, do not let it become an unexplained alteration of the pesticide application history.

Keep an enquiry concise and specific. Describe the screen or document heading from the publication, the crop entry and the issue requiring agency attention. Distinguish an identity/registration problem, a parcel discrepancy and a question about the scheme’s agronomic commitments. That distinction helps the receiving person understand the request without collecting unrelated documents.

The IPM plan commitment is a separate substantive requirement

ARPA’s June 2026 Eco-Scheme 2 guidance describes an IPM plan across the whole identified parcel area for at least three consecutive years. Competent individuals draft the plan, traps are installed according to it, and monitoring records cover the date, pest and number recorded, if any. The plan also describes at least three selected techniques from its listed approaches.

Those commitments explain why crop-plan administration and pest-management evidence need to remain linked. A completed crop entry does not itself describe the monitoring visit or the reasoning behind an intervention. Keep the actual plan, observation history and completed treatment records available under compatible parcel references.

The IPM monitoring guide follows the observation-to-decision sequence. Use it for the current Anness 6 monitoring sheet, the Directive’s IPM principles and the relationship between monitoring and evaluation. Anness 6 belongs to ARPA’s conditionality set; it is separate from the BiedjaCam app. Use this page for the agency’s crop-plan and digital evidence categories. The two workflows meet at the parcel and crop, while their individual documents retain their meaning.

Match the crop entry to the current scheme guidance

The June 2026 guide requires Eco-Scheme 2 applicants to be eligible for BISS and to provide an IPM plan issued by a recognised farm advisory service or a competent consultant approved by the Plant Health Directorate. The plan must include at least three of the listed techniques. The same guide retains the commitment to follow the plan across the whole participating parcel area for at least three consecutive years.

Keep the actual application correspondence and applicable scheme material with the farmer’s file. Identify which parcel and commitment each document concerns. The portal does not announce an application window, payment award or individual eligibility decision. It explains the record relationships in the official documents that were read.

The June 2026 guide’s eligibility list specifies a total eligible committed parcel area of at least 0.04 hectares. Keep that scheme area statement distinguishable from the area actually treated in a pesticide application. One concerns the commitment described in the plan; the other describes a completed use and its measurement under the record Annex.

Connect the advisory and administrative roles

RASD describes AgriConnect as the frontline advisory service providing support including crop planning and IPM. AgriKonsulta offers field visits, tailored advice and expert knowledge focused on IPM and sustainable fertiliser use. These services can be identified in the documentary chain as the source of advice or a plan explanation.

Prepare an adviser discussion with the actual crop-plan entry, relevant parcel and monitoring sequence. Explain whether the question concerns an intended programme, an observed pest or an action already taken. Keep the resulting advice distinguishable from the agency’s administrative correspondence about the application.

For an office handover, identify which contact can explain the agronomic reasoning and which document records an agency instruction. Preserve the original issuer and title. A file labelled simply “IPM app” is less informative than an index showing crop plan, competent adviser’s plan, monitoring evidence, product-use records and scheme correspondence separately.

A labelled documentary example

Invented organisation exercise: a fictional holding has two locally named parcels and a crop plan being reviewed for the published IPM workflow. Prepare a correspondence table matching each local name to its agency reference. Assign separate references to the crop entry, adviser plan, observation sheet and completed application report. The exercise supplies no real applicant, parcel number, product, dose or scheme award.

Ask a colleague to locate the crop-plan entry and explain which document records the actual use of a plant protection product. Then ask them to locate the observation that informed the decision. Record an ambiguous reference as a practical filing issue to resolve. The exercise demonstrates document relationships rather than certifying an application or simulating a live ARPA submission.

Prepare an intelligible account enquiry

For an account enquiry, distinguish the registered identity, the mobile-number contact and the password-activation step described in the booklet. Prepare a short chronology of the difficulty and retain any acknowledgement received from the agency. Keep confidential credentials within the business’s authorised arrangements rather than adding a password or verification code to a crop-plan attachment.

For a parcel enquiry, describe the discrepancy precisely: a local nickname, the agency reference, the crop concerned and the period being discussed. Attach only the relevant supporting material through the authorised agency process. Preserve the original message and subsequent clarification together so a replacement administrator can understand the resolution.

For an agronomic enquiry, supply the observation and adviser-plan references. Avoid treating an activation problem as a pest-management question or an expected harvest date as an observation of a completed harvest. This division makes the documentary account understandable while retaining the separate crop-plan, monitoring and application information described above.

Keep a usable archive after the season

Retain the published guidance used for the workflow with its date and version. Keep the farmer’s plan documents and received correspondence connected to their relevant period. Explain parcel abbreviations, name the authorised document custodian and record outstanding enquiries with an owner. Preserve a correction with its explanation so a later administrator can follow what changed.

For the legal application record, Article 67 requires professional users to keep their product-use records for at least three years. Article 4 of Regulation 2023/564 separately addresses prompt authority access and contractual-client access or copies. Keep those legal record obligations distinguishable from any particular crop-plan interface.

Use the application-fields guide for the event information, the electronic-record guide for format and timing, and the ARPA inspection guide for the wider purchase, licence and storage evidence pack. The Malta hub connects the complete reference set and the Leafwrit cabinet, where you can keep these records.