The Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) in cooperation with Knehtilä Farm organize the Digital Tool Scoping Workshop on Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle-based green fertiliser mapping on the 16^th February 2024 at Knehtilä Farmpremises, Southern Finland.

The workshop is part of the EU’s Horizon Europe D4AgEcol project.

“Green manure grasses often consist of a mixture of grasses and nitrogen-fixing crops. However, there can be significant within-field variation in biomass and species density.

The nitrogen fertilisation effect of green fertilizing is difficult to determine. We apply and combine commonly used digital technologies to bring a solution to this problem.”

The D4AgEcol DTSW at Knehtilä Farm will discuss the relationship between agroecology and digitalisation and explore usefulness and role of digital technologies in promoting agroecological farming. The workshop will specifically take a closer look at harnessing drone imaging and associated service technologies for ‘green fertilizer mapping’ and evaluate its impacts on agroecological aspects of farming.

The workshop day includes two parallel workshops, one for stakeholders and one for farmers. The work of the farmers’ group will work for forecasting of how popular the new technology will become with farm entrepreneurs and when the peak in popularity will be reached. The stakeholder workshop will examine the target technology and its potential through the 10 elements of agroecology as defined by the FAO. The day will start and end with joint presentations and discussions among all participants.

Stay tuned to learn about the outcomes of the LUKE’s Digital Tools Scoping Workshop!