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New plant production systems with autonomous agricultural machinery

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Production processes

This project contributes to the research aim 'Production processes'. Which funding institutions are active for this aim? What are the sub-aims? Take a look:
Production processes


Project code: 2814NA011, JKI-AT-08-1116
Contract period: 01.03.2015 - 30.09.2017
Budget: 4,896 Euro
Purpose of research: Basic research

Basis for the project is the awareness about increasing application of technology in agriculture is associated with bigger machinery and rising utilization of pesticides. Therby, productional limits are reached and sociopolitical declines in acceptance. Main problems are the rising soil pressure due to the heavy machinery, increasing resistances with respect to pesticides and furthermore the environmental pollution especially based on fertilization with nitrogen. At the same time, new developments in the field of automation lead to establish fully-automated production systems in agriculture. An automated plant production system might reduce the problems named above radically and would guide to a sustainable land management. However, there are different ways of development in the region of automation in cultivation beginning from autonomous small machinery to heavy machinery and also the combination of both. Which path finally is pursued is open, whereby scopes for setting the direction for the agricultural and technology policy are opened. To develop long term plant production systems which are sustainable and correspond with the aim of organic farming, it is necessary to estimate the plant cultivation, technological and economical advantages and disadvantages of each alternative path. The aim is to point up the most favorable path for the usage of autonomous agricultural machinery and to establish a research cluster 'digital farming'.
The aim ofthe work during the reference periodwas to develop a model farm on a realistic database and to use this farm for considerations and analyses for new plant production systems with big and small autonomous machineries. As a result it can be noted that, from the perspective oftechnological feasibility, in particular soil tillage, sowing, care procedures and methods oftransport could be weil autonomized. lt has tobe taken into account that no product development is taken place within this project but rather to establish research and development lines for future products in relation to new plant production systems.

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