Het onderzoek gaat over de adoptie van digitalisering in de landbouw, waarbij precisielandbouw en smart farming centraal staan. De rol van loonwerkers bij het toepassen van precisielandbouwtechnieken en de uitdagingen in kennisoverdracht worden onderzocht. Ook wordt gekeken naar de toegenomen vraag naar …

It is argued that if we decide to keep a technology or practice if we get at least one positive result from it, we do not have to change anything at all. Even factory farming, and wars, have some positive results... Due to the complexity and all the "smart" devices and apps, we may have started to feel, …

Avocado farming is a popular enterprise among small holder avocado farmers in Meru-County Kenya. The sector is rapidly growing and the country is ranked as the 6th world producer of avocado. However, the developed avocado value chain is experiencing high food losses along different phases of the chain. …

Smart farming staat voor digitalisering in de agrarische sector wat in de Nederlandse fruitteelt sterk in ontwikkeling is. Met de nieuwste technieken zijn we in staat om plaats specifieke bewerkingen uit te voeren op plant- of op boomniveau. Hierdoor kan er beter voldaan worden aan de behoefte van het …

De smart farming oplossing die Sogeti wil realiseren voor haar klant is gebaseerd op Azure services. Om een smart farming oplossing te realiseren dienen diverse services binnen de Azure omgeving met elkaar verbonden te worden op basis van directe koppelingen of gecodeerde verbindingen. Sogeti heeft nog …

The goal of this study was to develop an automated monitoring system for the detection of pigs’ bodies, heads and tails. The aim in the first part of the study was to recognize individual pigs (in lying and standing positions) in groups and their body parts (head/ears, and tail) by using machine learning …

Greenhouse gas emissions from dairy farming have been a topic of concern all over the world with some countries having taken pilot studies in quantifying the emissions in their farms. This study was done to calculate and compare the carbon footprint in small and large-scale dairy farms in Zimbabwe.

This thesis covers the topic of expanding Dutch Agri-tech businesses in France. From the software sector, a request was made for more knowledge on the French arable market. In this matter it was important to find out the knowledge of the farmer concerning arable registration software. It is known that …

The dairy sector in Kenya is one of the pillars for smallholder farmers' livelihoods through the generation of income, employment, and food to 2 million people across the dairy value chain although the sector is still vulnerable to climate change. Agriterra stimulates climate-smart agriculture and carbon …

Dairy Farmers in the Ziway-Hawassa milk shed have different knowledge, experience, assets that enable them to adjust themselves from various vulnerabilities and continue operating. This knowledge, experiences and assets help them to be more resilient by improving their adoptive capacities. However, asset …