Consumers demand that their food to be safe and produced in a sustainable way with respect to the environment. This causes a growing need for documentation that ensures transparency and quality. These administrative tasks take up to 20 per cent of farmers' workloads [in developed countries where this is a "sine qua non" process]

AgriBase (an 2014 European Satellite Navigation Competition Winner) is a hands-free registration tool that covers all demands from government, the food and retail industries, and consumers by using satellite timing and navigation to authenticate the registration of all crop management activities, from field preparations to harvest.

An AgriBase registration unit is installed on the farmer's machinery. This unit automatically registers all of the farmer's activities with the aid of GNSS and on-board sensors. The registered data (when, where, who, what) are transferred via GPRS/WiFi to the AgriBase back office. With the aid of knowledge-based rules, these sensor events are translated into meaningful registrations and saved to a database.

Read more [and cry] at:
www.esnc.eu/index.php?anzeige=netherlands08.html