project - EIP-AGRI Operational Group
Precision agriculture to improve the production and quality of winter cereals and their environmental sustainability.
Agricultura de precisión para la mejora de la producción y calidad del cereal de invierno y su sostenibilidad ambiental
Context
Technical advice increasingly requires tools that can integrate and take into account variability between and within agricultural plots and facilitate decision-making by specialist advisers. Increasingly highly developed precision farming techniques can provide a tool to assist with this advice, but they need to be developed and adapted to Catalonia's scientific, technical and social environment; and transferred and presented to specialists and farmers in order to increase their use. The application of the new Decree 153/2019, which establishes the need to reduce the P and K content of soil when it exceeds stipulated levels creates a need to study plots where livestock manure has historically been applied, in order to characterise them using precision agriculture, and provide a response for those working in the sector in the form of a strategy and a guide to advise them.
Objectives
The main goal of the project is to create a new management methodology for croplands using precision agriculture equipment, and to produce guidelines for the agricultural sector. The management methodology has three aims:
- Reduced environmental impact.
- Improved yields from croplands.
- Improved resource efficiency.
Objectives
El objetivo principal del proyecto es crear una nueva metodología de gestión de los campos de cultivo a través de equipamientos de agricultura de precisión, generando unas pautas en el marco del sector agrícola. El objetivo de la metodología de gestión es triple:
- Reducción del impacto ambiental.
- Mejor rendimiento de los campos de cultivo.
- Mejora en la eficiencia de los recursos.
Activities
The project includes five general initiatives:
- Characterise the fertility and the productive potential of plots of interest to improve their management.
- Establish fertilisation strategies to obtain winter cereals with superior production and quality.
- Reduce phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) levels in plots with a high nutrient content.
- Define the use of NIR+GPS technologies in the management of livestock manure using precision agriculture.
- Technical advice on winter cereal production.
Activities
En el marco del proyecto se plantean 5 actuaciones generales:
- Caracterización de la fertilidad y el potencial productivo de parcelas de interés para la mejora de su gestión.
- Establecer estrategias de fertilización para obtener cereales de invierno con producción y calidad superior.
- Reducción de los niveles de fósforo (P) y potasio (K) en parcelas con un elevado contenido de nutrientes.
- Definir el uso de tecnologías NIR + GPS en la gestión de las deyecciones ganaderas con el uso de agricultura de precisión.
- Asesoramiento técnico a la producción de cereales de invierno.
Project details
- Main funding source
- Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
- Rural Development Programme
- 2014ES06RDRP009 Spain - Rural Development Programme (Regional) - Cataluña
Location
- Main geographical location
- Barcelona
- Other geographical location
- Girona
EUR 174 394.00
Total budget
Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.
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Contacts
Project coordinator
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ESPORC, SA
Project coordinator