Have you ever thought about how much technology is behind a cut of meat, a tonne of soya or a kilo of rice?
That slightly undulating peneplain, which we used to talk about in school, is now the setting for a wide variety of innovations that improve the productivity of the agricultural sector.
In addition to the livestock traceability system, which is already well known, in the Uruguayan countryside we can see, for example, digital sensors for different measurements, drones for counting livestock and for measuring the evolution of plantations, intelligent seeders and harvesters that have revolutionised agriculture, web applications that feed on extensive databases on producers, their land and their activity...
What is the state of ICT incorporation in agriculture today, how has it contributed to improved productivity, and what new developments are emerging?
That's what we talk about today in a new edition of La Mesa TIC.
We were joined by Roberto Oliveira Mattos, industrial engineer, former professor grade 5 of the Faculty of Engineering, director and founder of ICA, a company that has supported the development of several projects that have brought technology to agriculture; Diego Payssé, agronomist, rural producer, representative of the Rural Association of Uruguay in the National Council for Innovation, Science and Technology (CONICYT); Virginia San Martín, agronomist, livestock producer in the area of San Carlos. Former president of Cooperativas Agrarias Federadas; and Miguel Sierra, agricultural engineer. Manager of innovation and communication at the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INIA). President of the National Council for Innovation, Science and Technology (CONICYT).
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