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PHOTO: TOYOTA


Taranis CEO Ofir Schlam in the field. “We are in the early days of precision ag and the technology and its adoption is still maturing,” he says.


automatically driven tractors. Therefore the re- gional government decided that by 2025, fibre- optic connections should be available to all households and buildings in Schleswig-Holstein.


Competition for


robotic solutions EUROPE


The Agro Innovation Lab (AIL) is a the joint in- novation platform of BayWa and RWA. In a Ro- botics Challenge, the AIL this year focuses on robotics solutions in agriculture, in particular in the fields of autonomous weed control and fruit and vegetable harvest. Participants can win a sales cooperation with BayWa and RWA or an investment. We need automation and the use of AI to achieve sustainability objec- tives in agriculture, said Klaus Josef Lutz, chair- man of BayWa. At the same time robotics con- tributes to relieving employees of heavy physical work, and to counteract the problem of lack of labour, which already manifests itself


in the specialised crop area today. “We invest in to pave the way for the best solutions, to get them early to farmers in our home market.” The most promising ideas will be tested in practice this summer. The field trials will take place on agricultural areas in Germany and Austria. The winners will be announced at the concluding event of the Robotics Challenge in September in Munich.


Toyota develops


real-time soil sensor ASIA


Toyota begins field trials of a new support ser- vice that uses data from real-time visualisation of soil components during agricultural land analysis to diagnose soil characteristics and propose improvements. The aim is to rapidly identify variations in soil components within a tract of agricultural land, to enable precise soil cultivation through waste-free addition of fer- tilisers and other soil improvement agents. The


field trial is being carried out in cooperation with Tokai Trading, which has a wide range of know-how related to agricultural machinery and fertilisers. Toyota has been conducting re- search and development related to the re- al-time soil sensor in partnership with Tokyo University of Agriculture. Between August 2017 and November 2018, the research team has been validating the effectiveness of these technologies in rice fields. The new trial is to verify the commercial feasibility of a service based on this technology. The trial is expected to continue until December 2019.


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