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SOWING FOR HARVESTING

SOWING FOR HARVESTING

NASA has recently announced the discovery of seven planets orbiting a star not far from the Solar System - but the fact is that if we do not look at our planet from a sustainable point of view, we might as well lose the hopes of one day visiting these mysterious neighbours.

Precision farming is one way of introducing technology and sustainability into a human activity that has so often ruined soils more than it has fed mouths. Renouncing the artisanal model, agriculture is structured taking into consideration the standard of industrial activity and, thanks to its versatility, INESC TEC only has good reasons to contribute to this practice: from sensors to communications, from robots to image processing, from production management to logistics - all technologies and science, either existing or being originated at INESC TEC, can be adapted to the agriculture, agro-food and forestry niche.

At INESC TEC, this effort is materialised in the TEC4AGRO-FOOD initiative, which promotes the dialogue between the economy sector and eleven of the institution's thirteen science and technology centres - where research projects are carried out and whose results are of interest to the companies interacting with our organisation.

One of the initiatives involves the next SBIAgro 2017 - Brazilian Congress of Agroinformatics, which will take place in Campinas (São Paulo, Brazil) between 2 and 6 October. This initiative is organised by EMBRAPA and UNICAMP and supported by INESC TEC and INESC P&D Brasil. More than single contacts, INESC TEC guarantees Higher Education Institutions (Universities of Porto, Minho and UTAD and also to the Polytechnic Institute of Porto) a structured vehicle for productive dialogues. As a result, the Portuguese participation in SBIAgro 2017 will surely mean a qualitative leap in the relationship with Brazil in the field of precision agriculture.

The special reference to this event is well-deserved: the desired internationalisation of Portuguese science, with the gains in visibility that it entails, goes hand in hand with the desire for partnerships and alliances that Brazil manifests in relation to Portugal in this theme. The experience of the INESC TEC model of technology development and transfer appear to be relevant, once again, in this agro-environmental and food sector.