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The Future of Crop Farming - biodiverse, soil protecting and digital (FutureCropFarming)
Project
Project code: A/21/17
Contract period: 01.01.2022
- 31.12.2024
Budget: 1,169,361 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: biodiversity, soil protection, digitalization, robotics, system orientation, society, konwledge transfer, competitivness
The project contributes to give solutions for the major challenges in agriculture in the context of biodiversity, soil protection, climate change, securing competitiveness and social acceptance. The platform for research, demonstration and knowledge transfer is an innovative, small-scale diversified and digitized crop farming system of the future. The ecological, economic and social effects of innovative production approaches are evaluated by an interdisciplinary team with various indicators in a system-oriented way. The methodological starting point is a 12 ha field laboratory consisting of six blocks, each with seven 15 m broad strips separated in 3 m wide biodiversity strips. Each of the 15 m wide strips goes through a 7-unit crop rotation in the style of a strip intercropping system. The field lab is managed using state-of-the-art digital technologies as well as cutting edge agricultural robotics. Furthermore, the field lab is equipped with IoT soil sensors. The described field lab is the common research object to explore issues of crop protection, biodiversity, soil conservation, social acceptance, competitiveness as well as knowledge transfer. The described methodological approach finally leads to a widely required system approach.
Section overview
Subjects
- Agricultural Engineering Plant Production
- Agricultural Sociology
- Resource management
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Bavarian State Ministry for Nutrition, Agriculture, Forestry and Tourism (StMELF)
