The intervention of Ecodevelopment at the 2nd EDOREL Rice Conference was particularly well received, given that there is still no other comprehensive, reliable and systematic “fertilization advisory” service available today in the precision agriculture market.
In his 15-minute speech, the Director of Precision Agriculture Dr. Christos Karydas outlined the great impact of Ecodevelopment in the field (since 2016), both for a few producers who were positive from the beginning and looking for alternatives, and for most skeptical producers, by demystifying stereotypes that kept them locked into conventional farming practices.
The conference took place at a critical time, with our synergy with Agrostis (a well-known agri-informatics company) being fully confirmed, mainly through the choice of ifarma as a particularly useful farm management system in which we build our applications.
At the same time, new perspectives are opening up through the strategic partnership between Ecodevelopment and TractorGPS (a well-known precision agriculture company), with whom we will work for the next two years to jointly provide “fertilization consulting” to the producers we serve.
Finally, the strategic cooperation between Ecodevelopment and ELGO-DIMITRA is also confirmed, in terms of soil analysis and, more generally, the common approach to a sustainable management of the country’s soil and water resources. Ecodevelopment will have the opportunity to continue its in-depth cooperation with ELGO-DIMTRA, through the recently approved European project SEACURE (HORIZON), which deals with precision agriculture applications in rice.