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By Martín Sackmann, Innovation and Development Manager of Grupo Los Grobo.
There are more and more digital tools that are adopted by Argentine producers, among which we can mention Fieldview, Auravant, Onesoil, Sima, Ucropit, Agropro, Puma, Culti, among others. These platforms provide solutions for the economic management of batches, preparation of settings and prescriptions, preparation and follow-up of work orders, production traceability, data storage and, recently, some that contain modules for carbon footprint measurement have been added. gates inside.
During the technical exchange meeting "How to go from Precision Agriculture to Environment Improvement", carried out by Los Grobo Agropecuaria, Javier Pucciarelli, technical representative of Fieldview, presented this digital platform. It allows knowing very well the productive environments of the field, as well as optimizing the efficiency of resources through variable prescriptions, which improves the profitability and sustainability of the systems.
In turn, this increased use of digital platforms and detailed knowledge of production environments allowed companies such as El Hinojo and LIAG to take a leap in the intensification of production systems. Gabriel Busson, Production Manager of El Hinojo, told how through a greater use of double crops and new species they managed to reduce the use of agrochemicals, improve carbon capture and increase yields in the rotation.
On the other hand, Francisco Melcon, Production Manager of Las Balas de Liag, narrated how through the greater use of cover crops and several years of work on the subject under the motto of "always green plots all year long", using a balanced fertilization, managed to increase the organic matter of the soil, the levels of available Nitrogen and the consequent increase in productivity in wheat, soybean and corn crops; reducing on the other hand the amounts of agrochemicals in the rotation.
Both companies showed how these productive benefits bring with them:
Greater employment of labor and machinery.
The possibility of being in constant movement throughout the year, increasing grain production per physical hectare.
Greater risk diversification due to the greater variety of crops.
Reduction of the carbon footprint of agricultural production.
The collection of digitized information through soil sampling, satellite images and yield maps allow the permanent evaluation of the different changes and technological adjustments in each productive environment.
We can say that precision agriculture leads to a process of continuous improvement that, through the order of the databases and the knowledge of the productive variables and acting accordingly, allow to improve the environments through the recovery of the physicochemical properties and soil biology.
All these real examples show that you can think of a different type of agriculture. In the coming years, to increase the productivity and sustainability of the country's agricultural production systems, we will have to prioritize greater balanced fertilization and nutrient enrichment, grow in the diversity of both harvest and service crops in rotation, constant monitoring and digitalization of soil health indicators. → ambito.com
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