Technology innovations (Sensors, IoT, and Artificial Intelligence) in Greenhouse Farming and Presentation of IGUESS-MED project. Chott Mariem, Tunisia. 31 May 2022.
The Regional Research Center on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture (CRRHAB) organized this workshop, where have participated around 40 attendes (farmers, advisors, agritech startups, computer scientists, teachers, researchers and decision makers.
The CRRHAB team explained the innovations installed in the greenhouse by visiting the IGUESS-MED trial in the CRRHAB experimental station. After the visit, the participants discussed the current state of the use of these technologies in greenhouse crops in Tunisia, the problems, and the prospects. Participants believe that in Tunisia, the adoption of IoT in smart agriculture faces daunting challenges, initial cost, lack of knowledge, rigid mentality of the classic farmer. Small farmers, over-indebted, precarious, and little concerned with global environmental issues, have difficulty assimilating the need for modernization in favor of profitability objectives aligned with the vision of sustainable development. Those who are interested do not like to be little involved in the processing of data for their decision-making, they begin to feel dispossessed of their expertise with the reduced part of subjectivity in the service of intelligent algorithmic systems.
The CRRHAB team presented oral communications:
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Système innovant d’aide à la décision pour la serriculture méditerranéenne (Fertigation et lutte phytosanitaire efficientes grâce à un contrôle climatique basé sur l'IoT) (Asma Laarif)
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Gestion Integree des Bioagresseurs (Thameur Bouslama)
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تقدير الاحتياجات المائية للنبات في البيوت المحمية (Mohsen Mansour)
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آليات تسييرعملية الري في البيت المحمي خلال التجربة (Imed Ben Aissa)
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Table de Réflexions sur les Contraintes et attentes pour promouvoir des cultures sous serres en Tunisie (Houcine Jerdder).
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In addition to organizing their own workshops and participating in others, CAJAMAR Foundation, with the collaboration of the iGUESS-MED partners, organised a JOINT WORKSHOP, on 12 March 2024, together to another PRIMA project Safe-H20-Farm (Innovative farm strategies that integrate sustainable N fertilization, water management and pest control to reduce water and soil pollution and salinization in the Mediterranean.). In this workshop titled “Fertigation in tomato greenhouses across the Mediterranean basin: the contribution of PRIMA projects iGUESS-MED & Safe-H20-Farm” both projects were presented by the coordinators: Dr. Alejandra Navarro Garcia (iGUESS-MED) and Dr. Michela Farneselli (Safe-H20-Farm) with the online participation of PRIMA P.O., Dr. Marco Orlando and Prof. Ali Rhouma. The UAL (Dr. Francisco Padilla) and the Akdeniz University (Dr. Cihan Karaca), as partners who are involved in both projects, explained the similarities and differences of the activities carried out and what was learnt from iGUESS-MED and could help and improve Safe-H20-Farm. This dissemination event had an online and face-to-face format. This dissemination event had an online and face-to-face format.
