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Arable farming can be challenging and getting the balance right between the chemicals the crops need to thrive while minimising the impact on the environment is one key difficulty. On the other hand, the global food challenge is clear: by 2050 the world will need to feed 9 billion people, according to the World Economic Forum. This represents an increase of between 50-100%. A host of issues need to be addressed to achieve the target, from gender inequality, ageing demographics, skills development and global warming. But at farm level, agriculture needs to become more productive.
The EU-funded IOF 2020 (Internet of Food and Farm 2020) has the ambitious goal of making precision farming a reality and one successful pilot project is bringing that ideal closer. Wheat harvested from a field in Boigneville, 100 km south of Paris, France, in August this year will have been grown with the benefit data from sensors. nitrogen is a particular problem in agriculture: surplus nitrogen leaches from the soil into rivers and lakes and runoff ends up in water bodies. This can lead to eutrophication – algal blooms which consume oxygen, impacting fish stocks and biodiversity. While satellite pictures can indicate nitrogen levels in crops, soil levels are not revealed, which is where sensors come into play.
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