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EFITA newsletter / 908 - European Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture, Food and the Environment
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I write you to ask your help about papers and other sources to refers to about smart farming technologies (SFT).
To be more accurate we submitted a paper to an indexed journal on a survey about adoption of SFT among farmers in northern Italy
Reviewer are asking for more information about 2 points:
1) to explain the difference in terms of technological solutions, investment, complexity and scale between the two groups of technology we identified:
a) management information systems (e.g. technologies for collecting, storing, processing, and disseminating data for decision making) and
b) in-field advanced working tools (such as robots and autonomous machines and traditional machines, such as tractors, with embedded Precision Agriculture devices/systems)
2) in the introduction of our manuscript we mention (according a study from the EU that in USA the adoption of SFT rate is higher. The reviewers ask for an explanation for that and for the availability of the such technology in USA
It would be great if you can help us suggesting any source, not just papers, that can help us replying consistently to the comments from reviewers.
Thanks a lot for your help! Regards
Eugenio CAVALLO, PhD, Istituto per le Macchine Agricole e Movimento Terra/Institute for Agricultural and Earth-Moving Machines
E-mail: e.cavallo(a)imamoter.cnr.it
My point of view (GW):
- Management Information System: it requires long time to adopt and adapt to each enterprise. In France, the hart of any MIS is the accounting system which from the technological point of view is not that complex. It is not that expensive too compared with captors, robots, etc. The skill required mainly is a management capability.
- Captors, robots, etc.: May be expensive. The skill required is a technological capability.
- Comparison: EU/USA: It seems to me that with the use of smartphones, the differences between countries are lesser.
Please criticize and complete this point of view!
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Farming robots collecting plant breeding data
Being used more and more on production farms, farming robots collecting plant breeding data start paving their way to the research department.
When monitoring the plants growth, researchers are gathering information to characterize every experimental condition. Yield and harvest quality are useful results but most of the time the study is more complex, it focuses on subtler trait expression. The information required can be collected manually by observing the plants and taking notations, or by farming robots collecting plant breeding data !
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Connecting Transverse Research Activities
What makes all the actors of a research department work efficiently together? How breeders, biotechnicians and field testers share data and collaborate?
Nowadays, IT systems connect people together and help them share data in real time. Many strategies can enhance interactions within the R&D team, on top of them making the research software evolve to that end. But such a change involves human, technical and financial investments at the start, plus future maintenance costs.
It appears that integrating with one unified tool different activities bring more return on investment than an Information System fragmented with various bridges to maintain. Most studies on ERP tools show that the more and deep investment in one organization tool brings the best Return On Investment (ROI).
“Information management tools no longer aim to process data but to play a facilitating role on communication and cooperation between the actors, in other words a participatory coupling allowing the emergence of meaning, capitalization and spreading of the collective knowledge built.” Jean-Yves Prax.
Voir doriane.com
French seed industry pionneers in precision agriculture
Precision agriculture enables to produce better (improve the ecological performance of agriculture) and more (improve the economical performance) since it puts together agronomy, ecology and technology.
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Farmers should be concerned about attacks on science
We should be concerned about the increasing attacks on science which threaten to slow and even halt the adoption of some food production technologies that could solve or address many of the issues facing our world’s food and energy security and climate change, says David Green, Director of the U.S. Sustainability Alliance.
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Good old days (???????): Autumn Harvest by Julien Dupré (1851-1910)
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Weed Chipper: mechanical alternative for herbicides
Engineers and researchers from the University of Western Australia (UWA) and the University of Sydney have developed a mechanical weeding machine, that proves to be very effective in weed control in fallow. They hope to have the machine commercially available in the near future.
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Artificial intelligence perfectly able to grow crops
People without any knowledge can use artificial intelligence (AI) to produce more profitable cucumbers than the most experienced growers. This was shown in an experiment that Wageningen University & Research (WUR) in the Netherlands conducted last year in a greenhouse complex at their experimental farm in Bleiswijk.
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BASF invests US$ 4 million in Latin American agtech startups
BASF Venture Capital is one of the main investors in the first closing of the Brazilian fund AgVentures II. BASF Venture Capital has committed US$ 4 million. The fund is managed by São Paulo-based SP Ventures and focuses on startups from the Latin American agricultural and food (AgFood) sector. The fund aims to support 20 to 25 new companies founded and headquartered in Latin America.
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Autonomous Case IH Magnum still to feature cab
Everyone has seen the autonomous, cabless Magnum. The tractor stole the show at various trade fairs and the clips of it went viral. Now, it stands inoperational in the museum in Racine, Wisconsin, USA. Is that the end of the exercise? No, just the beginning: CNH Industrial is working hard on the underlying technology.
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India’s Ecozen closes Series A on $6m to help farmers reduce spoilage, navigate supply chain
“We met a bunch of farmers facing challenges around irrigation, and we saw that they needed power, so we built solar-powered irrigation solutions. They were able to improve production substantially – it doubled or even tripled – but their income did not grow commensurately,” company CEO and co-founder Devendra Gupta told AFN. “That’s when we realized that what they were producing was not reaching the consumer. It’s a value chain problem.”
Today the startup has three products to help fresh produce farmers navigate each stage of the supply chain. The irrigation product Ecotron has transformed into a decision-making tool that uses IoT, diagnostics and predictive analytics to optimize irrigation. Ecofrost is a portable cold room which enables pre-cooling and on-farm storage of perishable crops, reducing spoilage while helping farmers realize higher prices. Finally, Ecozen has recently launched an online marketplace to facilitate pre-cooled, fresh produce sales from Ecofrost units, creating a market.
See agfundernews.com
Survey shows consumers have double standard for ag tech
Technology in agriculture is how we’ll feed a growing population, make farming more sustainable and improve the lives of farm animals, say 85 percent of the 3,000 participants in a new three-continent consumer survey. At the same time, only about half of those surveyed want their food to come from a technologically advanced (versus traditional) farm. Industries like medicine and education are where respondents most want to see technology used. Farming ranks third — above defense, manufacturing, retail and food.
See agdaily.com
Tech can halt African Swine Fever in Asia
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Good old days (???????): Frosty March Morning by Sir George Clausen (1904)
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Unilever opens 85m euro Food Innovation Centre in Wageningen
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The space, atop one of Thailand's oldest universities, mimics rice terraces and can help curb some of the impacts of climate change, say landscapers
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CGIAR Newsletter: 2025 End Hunger And Undernutrition
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Why are there so few prisoners in the Netherlands?
The Dutch justice system is cutting jail populations by offering specialist rehabilitation to people with mental illnesses.
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