Innovative Smart Farming services supporting Circular Economy in Agriculture
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FEFTS Specifications
Research project
for Energy efficiency improvement
Suitable for
Precision agriculture
Special type
Fertilize, Pesticide and Water reduction
Agricultural domain
Open-field agriculture
Suitable for
Farmer, Producers association, Advisory services
Applications
Agricultural field practices, Other
Especially
Pest control (crop protection)
Type of solution
Software, Complete solution
Details
Project`s acronym: LIFE GAIA Sense
Project funding type: EU
Project funding source: LIFE
Project coordinator: NEUROPUBLIC AE PLIROFORIKIS & EPIKOINONION
Coordinator location: Greece
Coordinator email / Contact form: n_marianos@neuropublic.gr
Project status: Finished
Total budget: 2979291
Additional info
More specifically, this project will launch 18 demonstrators across Greece, Spain and Portugal covering 9 crops (olives, peaches, cotton, pistachio, potatoes, table tomatoes, industrial tomatoes, almonds, kiwi) in various terrain and microclimatic conditions. They will demonstrate an innovative method, based on high-end technology, which is suitable for being replicated and will be accessible and affordable to Farmers either as individuals or collectively through Agricultural Cooperatives.
The project is multi-objective and intends to:
- Setup and establish a large scale SF infrastructure for data collection and analysis and 18 demonstrators of gaiasense SF solution.
- Establish a network of scientists and professionals and engage them in adapting the SF services and models to the specific needs of each demonstrator and each crop.
- Apply the results to the field and measure the rate of decline of inputs on selected crops and correlate between the GAIA Sense results’ and the targets set as policy by EU over the CE.
- Measure the impact of gaiasense on soil, water and air quality.
- Disseminate the project’s results at national and EU level and build a robust business model to ensure their replicability and sustainability.
- Form policy making proposals in order to implement efficient methods of managing resources in agriculture sector.
- Starting from investing on the success of small scale demonstrators, the project intends to attract the interest of larger stakeholder groups, to achieve the scale needed for adaptation efforts that make real sense e.g. from local cooperatives to organizations like Copa Cogeca
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Assessment
This section contains a brief assessment of the FEFTS described.
There are 3 basic categories: General, Environmental and Socioeconomic assessment.
The purpose of this assessment is to give a quick overview to the potential FEFTS user of its application benefits.
For each question, the Likert scale is used with the following possible answers:
Strongly disagree, Disagree, Neither agree nor disagree (Neutral)/non applicable, Agree, Strongly agree
General
This FEFTS contributes to improve the energy profiles of farming systems:Environmental
The application of this FEFTS directly reduces fossil energy use, in terms of:- Tools and equipment electricity consumption
- Tools and equipment fuel consumption
- Fertilizer reduction
- Pesticide reduction
Socioeconomic
The application of this FEFTS contributes to cost reductions of farming systems:Keep in mind that this assessment is subjective, based on publicly available information.
All registered users are asked to evaluate each FEFTS and when an adequate number of reviews is gathered the results depicted here are updated. Each review is screened in order to avoid malicious practices.
FEFTS providers who do not agree with the assessment results, can send their inquiry to info@agrofossilfree.eu and a direct action based on their petition will be taken.