Precision Agriculture: GPS, Drones, and Computers

Producers are trying to reduce the use of crop protection products using innovative cultivation techniques such as smart and precision farming. These innovations allow farmers to fertilise and treat their fields accurately. In this way, no products and space are wasted. There are also no losses into streams or river bays at the edge of the fields.

What is actually meant by precision farming? This includes soil scans, plant sensors, plant analysis with drones, computer-controlled sprayers, field treatments such as sowing, cultivation and mechanical weed control using navigation devices, ...

Preservation of soil structure & nutrients

In open field cultivation, the soil is of course crucial. Growers therefore make every effort to preserve soil type, soil structure and nutrients and to prevent erosion.

Carbon storage

Agricultural and horticultural soils store a lot of CO2. Farmers are encouraged to optimise this storage, for example by means of special cover crops.