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Farming Insect Sensor
Insect pests directly damage crops causing significant losses and regular monitoring of fields is a labour-intensive, time-consuming and costly activity. At the same time, efficient pest control that is non-threatening to beneficials and pollinators is a major challenge. The ability to systematically, efficiently and accurately monitor insect populations is key to improved pest control.
Through an automatic monitoring solution integrated into digital farming platforms, we will provide a reliable decision-making tool for effective integrated pest management. This is a major change from the current norm of manual observation and sampling that offer limited ability to characterize insect population dynamics at the plot level. In farming’s future in-field sensors will monitor insects and farmers will only treat fields when and where it is really needed. Insecticide spray programs will become more targeted knowing with better precision when is the optimum time to treat and what is the optimum treatment strategy for each field. Knowing what is going on in the field makes life easier, secures harvests, boosts yields and protects pollinators.