1 / 17

Uptake of GNSS technology amongst Danish farmers

This survey conducted by the Knowledge Centre for Agriculture explores the adoption of GNSS technology among Danish farmers. Findings show the dominant use of RTK technology and reasons for non-adoption.

goinsr
Download Presentation

Uptake of GNSS technology amongst Danish farmers

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Uptake of GNSS technology amongst Danish farmers Jens Peter Hansen Specialist, ICT Business Development jph@vfl.dk

  2. The Knowledge Centre for Agriculture is part of Agro Food Park The Knowledge Centre for Agriculture contributes to transforming the latest knowledge of farming to world-class food products The Knowledge Centre for Agriculture is a specialist subsidiary of the trade organisation Danish Agriculture & Food Council that organises 90% of all farmers More than 500 employees

  3. Knowledge Centre activities are • Cultivation of the soil  • Animal welfare, health and breeding  • Business finance, tax and law  • Food quality and -safety  • Building and work environment  • IT in farming • Environment, nature and bioenergy • Nature conservation • Organic farming  • Rural development • Advisory service abroad

  4. Dansk landbrug 40.000 bedrifter Tendens: flere store og flere små deltidsbedrifter Værdi af landbrugseksporten: 65 mia. kr. Beskæftigelse i primærlandbrug og gartneri: 65.000 personer Danish agriculture • 30,000 farms > 10 hectare • Average 86 hectare • Tendency: More large and more small part-time farms • Value of the agricultural export: 9 billion € • Employment in farms and nurseries:65,000 persons

  5. 30,000 farms larger than 10 hectares

  6. 4,000 farms larger than 100 hectares and focus on plant production

  7. Survey set up • E-mail with link sent to 14,000 Danish farmers • All respondents are registered users of the portal landmand.dk, which for most Danish farmers is the main entrance to web based information and services • March 2013 • Part of a survey about mobile phones • More than 6,000 farmers filled in the questionnaire (response rate = 43 %)

  8. Unverified preliminary data from a survey in the GeoWebAgri project – result will be presented at EFITA 2013 in Turin, Italy

  9. Main findings from the survey • 18 % (n =1.069) uses some kind of GNSS technology on their machinery • RTK is dominating with 41 % (n = 448) using this technology followed by EGNOS which is used by 29 % (n = 311) • Amongst farmers not using GNSS, “too small a farm” is given as reason by 51 % (n = 2.527) and “not an economical sound investment” is stated by 38 % (n = 1.908)

More Related