1. RDI field (research, development, innovation)
a) Keeping Europe at the forefront of progress in smart agriculture by increasing investment at European and national level in research and innovation in digital technologies;
b) Supporting digital solutions for smart agriculture, resource efficiency, increasing farm productivity and reducing pressure on environmental resources such as soil, water and biodiversity.
2. Implementation:
a) Coherent and ambitious strategic plans of the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) for the sector modernization and dissemination of knowledge, innovation and digitalisation in agriculture and rural areas and their implementation;
b) Ways to support and participate in projects on the Internet of Things in agriculture;
c) Facilitating cross-border collection and sharing of agricultural data (eg soil property databases).
3. Date:
a) Make full use of the European space programs (EGNOS, Galileo and Copernicus) for the operation of unmanned aerial and land vehicles and autonomous agricultural machinery and for decisions based on agricultural operations data;
b) Development of common databases and to promote precision agricultural solutions of Artificial Intelligence and identification of high value data in accordance with the “open data” direction.
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