Trouble Shooting Matrix of PAT practical solutions
Multi-species ‘plant teams’ offer promising opportunities to improve crop yield stability, reduce pest and disease burden and enhance the resilience of agricultural systems to stresses such as climate change and market pressures. In consultation with industry stakeholders, however, several barriers have been identified to the commercial adoption of plant teams. For at least some of these barriers, and particularly those related to the practicalities of drilling, agronomy and harvesting of plant teams, precision agriculture technology (PAT) may offer available or near-market solutions to ease transitions to polycultural cropping, promoting commercial plant team uptake. Discussions with PAT specialists identified “>40 general and specific PAT solutions to plant team barriers”, additionally including machinery and product solutions, through a variety of contact routes. This report presents machinery, product and PAT solutions to plant team barriers formally as a ‘Trouble-Shooting Matrix’ for farmers and advisors to use when implementing the two broad ‘types’ of plant teams.
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Designing InnoVative plant teams for Ecosystem Resilience and agricultural Sustainability
- Location
- Europe
- Authors
- David George
- Jennifer Banfield-Zanin
- Purpose
- Decision-making support
- Dissemination
- File type
- Document
- File size
- 870 kB
- Created on
- 28-09-2020
- Origin language
- English
- Official project website
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- License
- CC BY
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