AgroSense is a multi-functional digital platform that provides support to farmers and agricultural companies in planning and monitoring the growth of crops and coordinating the agricultural activities in the Republic of Serbia. AgroSense was developed by BioSense Institute (Institute for Research and Development of Information Technology in Biosystems) based in Novi Sad, Serbia. The northern province of Vojvodina in Serbia is known for being the most important agricultural area of the country. Even though agriculture is one of the strongest export sectors of Serbia’s economy, the demands of a fast-growing national ICT sector has made us prioritise digital skills and technologies. Agriculture is still a very traditional field and bringing innovation to a system where most of the business are family run and very manual can be an opportunity, but also a challenge. The farmers and agricultural producers in arable farming and horticulture in Serbia operate in a traditional manner and in their work use information from various sources. Unfortunately, more often than not, the sources are unreliable or not specific enough in terms of location, to provide key information for farming and precise forecasting. The information is scattered, and many useful data points are unavailable for farmers. Although in many cases aware of issues, farmers are deeply reluctant to adopt new farming practices and ICTs. The change of mindset demands a lot of effort and time. The specific challenge for AgroSense was the development of a solution that would enable the farmers to easily access key information and data from one place, have aggregated data across time and use it for forecasting and have also have platform to enter costs and revenues related to their parcels and crops.

https://biosens.rs/?page_id=12564&lang=en

• Serbia

• Remote and rural communities
• Farmers

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