ICT-AGRI-2 FP7 ERA-NET 2014 -17

Information and Communication Technologies and Robotics for Sustainable Agriculture

Towards an action plan for implementation of the ICT-AGRI Strategic Research Agenda

Jack Verhoosel

The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) ict-agri.eu

ICT-AGRI 1

• Propose future research directions

▫ Strategic Research Agenda (SRA)

ICT-AGRI 2 : project goals

• Increase European research cooperation:

▫ Calls in 2015-2016-2017

▫ Joint calls:

Horizon 2020

EIP

National initiatives

PPP

▫ Public-private partnerships

In line with H2020

Research to the market

ICT-AGRI 2: project goal

Action plan for implementation of the Strategic Research Agenda

Identify needs and solutions

Implementation in transnational calls

Three annual repeats

Implementation in EU and national initiatives

Main structure of the SRA

Precision Crop and Livestock Farming

Variable rate application, Controlled traffic (farming)

Challenges / Goals Sustainable

intensification of production:

• Increase resource efficiency

• Reduce waste and emissions

• Increase animal /plant health and animals welfare

• Increase food safety • Reduce human labour

force

Bottom up

solutions

Specific (research) problems

• Smart sensors for soil/nitrogen status

weeds, diseases, stresses • Casing of sensors

• Early warning models for individual animals

and management zones

• Remote sensing & UAVs

• Big Data / Data interpretation

Top down solutions

Implementation of standardisation • Data exchange between machinery,

equipment and FMIS

Top down /

Bottom up solutions

Action plan 2014

Action topic

Call topics

Instruments

Stakeholders

Funders/users/farmers Industry/SME/users/farm

ers

Why are adoption rates so low? Refining our knowledge on the barriers to adoption issue and more importantly starting to find ways to break down the walls

• Detection of weeds, fungal diseases or stresses

• Mapping of soil conditions (new and improved sensors)

• Remote sensing

• Data management, farm management and (weather based) decision support

VRA Needed improvements

• Long term experiments (soil compaction, GHG, crop development etc.)

• Operation and traffic planning

• Compatibility between products from different vendors

• Feasibility and cost-benefit assessments

CT Needed improvements

• Interaction of animal and pasture: sensing and modeling

• Disease risk assessment and modeling

• Biosensors: higher sensitivity and specificity

• Improved decision support

• Management of GHG emissions

• Compatibility between products from different vendors

PLF Needed improvements

Specific R&I problems in PF

• Smart sensors for soil/nitrogen status, weeds, diseases, stresses

• Casing of sensors

• Early warning models for individual animals and management zones

• Remote sensing and UAVs

• Big Data / Data interpretation

• Implementation of standardization

• ……

How to get to actions?

1. Collect more detailed needs

▫ Get input from experts

2. Identify current solutions

▫ Collaboration with EIP-AGRI focus group on precision agriculture

▫ Survey for mapping adoption of standards

3. Identify proper instruments for implementation of actions

4. Derive actions for stimulation of innovation on specific needs/solutions per instrument

EIP focus group on PF

• Minipapers currently being finalized on:

1. How to reach farmers?

2. Compatibility issues

3. Cost-Benefit

4. Strategies for SMF

5. Support for advisors

6. Technical solutions, data storage and sharing

7. Open data

8. Research needs

Identify adoption of standards

• Scope:

▫ Information exchange between

1. Machinery, equipment and farm management information systems

2. FMIS at farmer and IS of other stakeholders

• Challenges:

▫ What are the main standards for this?

▫ What is their adoption ratio?

▫ Which standards are missing?

▫ How to stimulate this?

Survey for mapping standards

• Which ICT providers are active in this scope?

▫ Organisation details

▫ Customer focus

• What products/services do they provide?

▫ Type of product

▫ Functionality

• What standards are being used?

▫ Which information exchange

▫ Which gaps need to be filled

Implementation instruments

• ICT-AGRI 2 ERA-NET calls

• EIP-AGRI focus groups

• H2020 LEIT pillar

▫ Dedicated SME instrument

• European PPPs (Future Internet, BigData)

• Others…?

Implementation actions

• Collaboration with EIP focus group

▫ input of SRA

• H2020 calls/projects

▫ Additional funding on top of H2020 calls?

▫ Input for workprogram 2016-2017

• ICT-AGRI2 ERA-NET calls with

▫ Specific funding of SMEs to drive innovation,

▫ Stimulation of standardization activities to improve compatibility

• Joint call with FI-PPP

• …..?

Main question to you!

What other actions can we define for implementation of the SRA in

a close collaboration of

ICT-AGRI2 and EIP?

More information from our website:

ict-agri.eu

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