For a more sustainable management of apple orchards
The Interpoma Award aims to reward companies, startups and individuals who make sustainable innovation in the apple economy.
The 2024 edition is dedicated to digital technologies for a more sustainable management of apple orchards, optimising the use of plant protection products and fertilisers, reducing the carbon footprint, opening the way for the "apple orchard of the future".
This edition
debut also the Visitors' Choice Award, a vote given by the public to specific technologies.
SporeScout is an innovative digital technology that allows for a precise and early monitoring and diagnostic of fungal diseases under field conditions.
The product represents an IoT disease intelligence system that combines advanced robotic microscopy, machine vision, and Artificial intelligence.
The jury has recognized that SporeScout might allow outstanding progresses in the sustainable management of plant protection products in apple orchards.
Agromanager is an efficient digital platform to carry out a variety of farm management tasks throughout the use of an innovative ICT infrastructure.
It represents a modern farm management and information system able to satisfy the needs of Smart Agricultural solutions thanks its user-friendliness and flexibility.
Agromanager transfers information for a variety of decisional making processes, including the control of spraying and fertilising implements for automated site-specific management approaches.
Trapview is a novel crop protection support tool providing monitoring and forecasting of pest insect presence in the apple orchard.
The product stands out for its user-friendliness, overcoming the bottleneck of time-consuming manual check of the traps, and allowing growers and extension services to efficiently manage the monitoring system remotely.
The product aligns with the Award’s theme due to its potential to reduce crop protection sprays, predicting the fight of specific pests, thereby enhancing the sustainability of orchard management.
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