SMAF – Smart Agriculture Farming
The project that can help the farmers to adapt the digital solutions in the agriculture and food sector.
Project implementation: 2023-2025
The SMAF project is an agri-digitalisation knowledge-transfer project implemented by an international consortium funded by the EU and the EIT Food, which aims to collect and authentically transfer agri-digitalisation and innovation experiences, knowledge and development needs in countries with significant agricultural production. To this end, the consortium partners regularly organise conferences and presentations for interested parties, give lectures and assess the knowledge and needs of the target audience. The aim of the knowledge brokerage project is to help industry actors to effectively implement the digital switchover. The consortium includes Italian, Spanish and Greek partners alongside Campden BRI Hungary, representing the Hungarian agri-food industry.
The modern agriculture and food industry has to cope with a number of known and new challenges: meeting the ever-increasing demand from a growing population, environmental exposure to climate change, complying with nature and environmental directives, developing an attractive and profitable sector vision, producing safe and healthy food, and many more.
However, the current generational shift in agriculture offers an opportunity to make digitalisation a fundamental tool for agricultural and food production and a prerequisite for efficient operations. We believe that digitalisation currently provides solutions to many of the problems facing these two sectors. Digitalisation is already playing an increasingly important role in agriculture, with the growing use of data-driven smart solutions and systems that allow more precise monitoring and forecasting than ever before. This will allow producers and farmers to optimise production and its costs, increase average yields and produce safer and healthier food.
The SMAF project aims to provide a wide range of information on the potential of today's digital tools, the technical and organisational challenges and solutions related to the various agricultural and food processes and activities, which can be key not only to the long-term viability of a business, but also to the competitiveness of countries as a key sector of the economy.
The project was co-funded by the EIT Food.
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