Rotating Cereal Cultivation in Permanent Bottom crop
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Short summary
Autonomous vehicles can contribute to high-yield and resource-efficient cultivation with low use of pesticides/manual weed control in farming systems with higher biodiversity.
The aim of the project is to create energy-efficient autonomous equipment for a new cultivation system that involves intercropping rotating cereals and permanent bottom crop in rows. The system’s technical features will be optimized and verified, and the equipment will be made commercially available. The project will also inform about the potential of the cultivation system.
The entire cultivation process, except for harvesting, will be managed by the autonomous vehicle. The vehicle will therefore be equipped with tools for sowing, mowing, edge cutting, milling, and strip spraying.
At the cultivation system level, the project aims to develop and evaluate a concept for cultivation where annual cereals and perennial legumes and other herbs are intercropped to increase the delivery of ecosystem services. The focus will be on weed control, combining mowing of the grassland crop and edge cutting between the cereal and service crop.
Facts:
- Project owner: Mapro Systems AB
- Contact at Mapro Systems: David Bauner, +46 737 788 963
Links:
- Project hompage: https://archaea.se/rspb/
- Read the article about the project in ATL
- Read Landbygdsnätverket homepage article about the project