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NSRF Project ioPatato

ioPatato, NSRF research project

ioPatato — Value chain optimisation of the PGI potato of Kato Nevrokopi by implementing precision agriculture principles — applied precision agriculture and IoT telemetry across the value chain of one of Greece’s best-known potatoes, in the Drama regional unit.

Project at a glance

Programme: Investment Innovation Plans, Regional Operational Programme Eastern Macedonia & Thrace 2014–2020 (ERDF and national funds)
Project code: ΑΜΘΡ7-0073655 · MIS 5076611
Duration: February 2021 – February 2023
Total cost: Not publicly available
Funder: Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace · European Regional Development Fund
Coordinator: TBA
Role of the Lab: Assessment of farmers’ decision-making on the adoption of precision agriculture technologies

About the project

The project brought precision agriculture principles to the field, with in-field IoT telemetry, and examined how they reshape the whole value chain of the PGI potato of Kato Nevrokopi. The Lab evaluated farmers’ decision-making around adopting and implementing precision agriculture technologies: it built a policy framework that incorporates existing farm management practices and analysed farmers’ willingness to adopt new practices under agronomic, environmental and policy constraints, on the case of three farms inside a potato cooperative of Northern Greece.

Publications and outputs

Kleftodimos G., Kyrgiakos L.S., Kartakis S., Kleisiari C., Vasileiou M., Kremantzis M.D., Vlontzos G. (2024). Promoting excellence or discouraging mediocrity — a policy framework assessment for precision agriculture technologies adoption. Precision Agriculture, 25, 2903–2920. doi:10.1007/s11119-024-10160-x

Co-financed by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund) and Greek national funds through the Regional Operational Programme “Eastern Macedonia and Thrace 2014–2020”, action “Investment Innovation Plans” (project code ΑΜΘΡ7-0073655).

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