A4.L12 Toolkit for Agripreuners 4.0
The lesson is divided in to 5 topics:
- Principles of Farm Management
- Innovation Processes
- What to do with data?
- Software for Farmers - FMIS
- Study Cases (web)
The lesson is divided in to 5 topics:
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Farming activities management includes:
1 – Agronomical efficacy in terms of biological care of crops, soil conservation and environmental durability.
1.bis – Today the climate change and food / product quality demand require further tools and practices to mitigate risks due to exceptional weather and pest events.
2 – Operative efficiency in terms of higher capacity of field and appropriate farm machineries, as to say, best logistic of work, perfect geometry and transit conditions.
3 – Technology efficiency of machinery. Appropriate type, size, use, maintenance and repair, structure and procedures of the systems.
4 – Respect of direct and indirect normative constraints.
Sustainability /durability is the mandatory approach that replace extractive behaviour over the last decades.
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Research and innovation deployment requires skills and time. Innovation is a process that permits to companies and groups to adapt to social, economic and environmental changes. There are different approach to innovation. Some companies prefer to keep
innovation place within the company boundaries, (closed innovation), meanwhile others companies have an open innovation approach, so they activate innovation towards a continuous internal and external exchange. This kind of approach see this roots
in an open and fluid management of knowledge and know how between all the stakeholders. There are many place for innovation, i.e. the FabLab global network, in which inventors of each sort share ideas, time, space and knowledge.
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In the use of data, having a centralizing
structure is the best strategy for adequate decision making. Current
agricultural data is unstructured, fragmented and dispersed. It needs to be
organized and prepared for further analysis through different methods such as
statistics software, machine learning, integration of fuzzy logic algorithms. The
final goal is integrating data on decision making systems.
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Soil and crops, as biosystems, are heterogeneous and can present (or not) high variability. To properly manages then information is required.
In this respect, the latest advances in computing and electronics applied to agricultural have allowed collecting a large amount of farm-related data. However, data can only add value to the farmer if it is transformed into a knowledge base for them. The adoption of a Farm Management Information Systems (FMIS) enables farm-decision makers (farmer, agricultural technician…) better management of the farm and all resources.
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REZOS BRANDS is a food focused SME, with expertise in superfoods. The company is established in Patras, back in 1983, with main activity the distribution and development of national sales networks of imported and local food & beverages products, operating
in the Greek market. Over the years REZOS BRANDS has extended its operations to all activities of the vertical business model: from the farm to the fork, which includes cultivation, harvesting, research, process, packaging, warehouse storing, marketing,
distribution. Having own multifunctional farm, the super foods are cultivated and grown up with the principles of sustainable precision farming in order to develop, monitoring & analysing high nutritional value crops. The crops have been processed
with novel processing techniques, such as osmotic dehydration.