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The innovative KULTIVAS pilot project combines South Tyrol’s long-standing agricultural expertise with the latest technologies to improve decision-making in apple cultivation using data-driven approaches and real-world data.
Efficient and resource-saving site selection and cultivation have become more important than ever due to increasing competition, rising quality standards and growing environmental concerns. KULTIVAS is a big data platform for storing and visualising agricultural data.
Through data visualisation tools and open data integration, it enables comprehensive forecasting to ensure the continued high quality of South Tyrolean apples.
The „Variety-location study“ was the pilot project that KULTIVAS started, tackling the not-so-easy question: Which apple variety is best suited to a given location? ‘Our approach is data-driven and based on three pillars: big data, machine learning, and domain expertise,’ says Johannes Erschbaumer, solution manager and developer at Konverto AG.
Using the various data collected by KONVERTO AG, including weather data from the Open Data Hub, they were able to develop variety-location predictions and map-based visualisations, as well as providing a valuable data interface (API).
The KULTIVAS project is being carried out by the IT company KONVERTO AG, in cooperation with researchers and agronomists from leading institutes such as Laimburg and Eurac Research. These institutes are contributing
Peter WerthImportant questions of the future can be answered only by pooling knowledge, the results benefit all the partners involved in South Tyrolean agriculture.