Sustainable Intensification of Agricultural Cropping Systems Supported by Smart Swiss ICT-AGRI Solutions

Project information
This project aims at creating a novel decision support system to manage crops, which takes into account the needs of the plants and the environmental conditions. The system captures relevant data by means of wireless sensors and manages this data in an integrated cloud solution which includes self-learning algorithms. The project aims at building on Swiss agronomic excellence, namely in fruit orchard management, Agri-ICT and crop modelling and leveraging the existing pest forecast system SOPRA. Its final goal is to create a new state of the art for precision farming for the showcases apple and cocoa.
Project partners: 
FH Bingen
Weingut Becker
Project dates: 
January 2016 to January 2019
Contact
Contact person: 
Dr. Thomas Anken
Contact email: 
Contact organisation: 
Agroscope
Funding
Funding agency: 
Commission for Technology and Innovation
Grant: 
k€622