Call | 1st Call of INTERREG V-A Programme GREECE-ITALIA 2014-2020
Project duration | from 15.05.2018 to 15/11/2020

PRECISION FARMING | WATER SAVING | ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY SOLUTIONS

Objective | The overall objective of the TAGs project is to strengthen the transfer of technical-scientific innovations from research and innovation centers to enterprises of agro-food sector in order to enhance their competitiveness through a set of services that will help them to increase productivity and improve efficiency in the use of resources. Starting from the state of art of precision farming technologies and services at national and EU level, a set of solutions able to ensure a significant increase in farm productivity with more environment-friendly processes.

CETMA’s role | Design, development, test and validation of a Decision Support application “TAGs DSS” for precision irrigation (data processing and representation middleware), aimed to support the user in the decision to irrigate the crop according to the real needs (also during the different growth phases), in the right period and in the appropriate quantities; – Drone flights carried out over the Italian pilot site to collect data to give additional inputs to the DSS; – an ICT tool to improve knowledge, access and interactions between R&IT providers, SMEs and Policy Makers; – Business Plan analysis to measure the benefits arising from the implementation of TAGs DSS for the Apulian farm.

Partnership | 1. Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA) (Leader Partner), IT; 2. European Research Center for Technologies Design and Materials (CETMA), IT; 3. Local Action Group “Terra dei Trulli e di Barsento” (GAL), IT; 4. University of Patras (UPATRAS), GR; 5. Region of Western Greece (RWG), GR.

Status | Closed

Website | https://greece-italy.eu/rlb-funded-projects/tags/