Precision agriculture 4.0 and biogas digestate: a winning combination from both an environmental and economic point of view
• Use only the digestate for the fertilization of the soil, to evaluate the economic and environmental use of advanced technologies of precision agriculture and farming 4.0
• Use of advanced technologies such as GPS technology for mapping and georeferencing of land; Soil prescription maps to optimize crop inputs; Seeding variable rate to limit the seed wastage, maximize yields and optimize the fertility of the soil; NIR technology for the distribution of digestate to homogenize fertilizer supplies; Production maps to check the previous points with GPS technology applied on the collection machines;
"• To optimize a crop model (agronomic sustainability) that maximizes the economic output (economic sustainability) of the farms involved by minimizing the environmental impacts (environmental sustainability) of a highly efficient production.
• Quantify the economic and environmental benefits of an integrated approach in the use of soil / fertilizer / biomass information
• Pursue the dissemination of results during the project and ultimately to maximize the dissemination of data and the rapid adoption of the cultivation and management techniques proposed"
"The BIOGAS 4.0 project was born from a specific requirement of the cereal sector: 1) Lombard agriculture urgently needs improvements in competitiveness, increased productivity and production, more efficient use of resources, reducing environmental impacts. 2) The biogas sector needs to highlight the possibility, through the residual digestate of the plants, to contribute efficiently to the economic and environmental improvement of the production performance of farms.
Many of the proposed cultivation and analytical techniques are already, albeit in an extremely limited way, applied by ""pioneer farmers"". Up to now there has been no organic and systematic application of all these techniques that would allow their global evaluation from an economic, agronomic and environmental point of view"
Develop and validate the application of the high efficiency distribution of the digestate based on the nutrient content needed for the crop by applying a variable rate related to the fertility of the soil. In this way we want to obtain an advanced cultivation system in which reduction of crop costs and reduction of environmental impact constitute a fundamental balance aimed at increasing soil fertility and promoting the recycling of nutrients and organic matter.
Validate the application of NIR technology for the continue analisys of digestate nutrient during the distribution in fiel, in order to obtain an innovative precision system for the variable rate organic fertilization with digestate. In this way will be possible to have a significative improve of efficiency, valorisation and recycling of nutrients with significative environmental and economical advantages.
Application and validation of an advanced cultivation technique for double crop winter cereal/mais with integrated application of precision farming and minimum tillage. The system will be based on combined elaboration of soil fertility data, crop prodictivity data and crop growth index in order to obtain the better rationalization and efficiency on productive factors use and soil fertility improving thank to the precision organic fertilization
Documentazione del Convegno finale del GO BIOGAS 4.0
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