{"id":7874,"date":"2018-01-30T14:05:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T14:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainableagriculturewaitrose.org\/?p=7874"},"modified":"2018-01-30T14:05:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T14:05:40","slug":"precision-agriculture-research-collaboration-aims-to-help-chinese-smallholder-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/2018\/01\/30\/precision-agriculture-research-collaboration-aims-to-help-chinese-smallholder-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Precision agriculture research collaboration aims to help Chinese smallholder farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"China’s North Plain is one of the country’s most important \u2013 and densely populated \u2013 agricultural regions, producing crops such as corn, cereals, vegetables and cotton. A research project led by the James Hutton Institute<\/a> and China Agriculture University<\/a> aims to support smallholder farmers in the area through precision agriculture techniques.<\/p>\n

The initiative, funded by the Agri-Tech in China Newton Network +<\/a> (ACTNN+), seeks to test a decision support system in Xushui village (Hebei province, North China) which would help farmers determine the quantity of nitrogen-based fertilisers to be applied to their soils, in a drive to avoid fertiliser runoff pollution.<\/p>\n

Project co-ordinator Dr Davide Cammarano<\/a>, from the James Hutton Institute\u2019s Information and Computational Sciences<\/a> group, said: \u201cManagement zone delineation and decision support systems are very important issues for small-scale farmers, not just in China but across the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this case, our proposed decision support system is targeted to the advisors which support the farmers on site-specific management. It has been conceptualised to work with minimal data input, to ensure it can be broadly applicable.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe project will suggest a novel approach to existing research from China Agricultural University.\u201d<\/p>\n

The initiative is scheduled to run until July 2018. It is one of four projects funded via the ACTNN+ Newton Fund, which sees a growing network of universities, research and development institutions, companies and others working together.<\/p>\n

Besides the James Hutton Institute and China Agriculture University, project partners include RSK ADAS Ltd<\/a>; Rothamsted Research<\/a>; Courtyard Agriculture<\/a>; Hebei Agricultural University<\/a> and Henan Agricultural University<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Article source\/image credit: James Hutton Institute<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China’s North Plain is one of the country’s most important \u2013 and densely populated \u2013 agricultural regions, producing crops such as corn, cereals, vegetables and cotton. A research project led by the James Hutton Institute and China Agriculture University aims to support smallholder farmers in the area through precision agriculture techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,19,33,222,223,272,310,543,547,618,790,920,1009],"class_list":["post-7874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-actnn","tag-adas","tag-agriculture","tag-china","tag-china-agricultural-university","tag-courtyard-agriculture","tag-davide-cammarano","tag-hebei-agricultural-university","tag-henan-agricultural-university","tag-james-hutton-institute","tag-newton-fund","tag-precision-agriculture","tag-rsk-adas-ltd"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sustainable-agriculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}