Climate, topography and soil are some of the most important factors for growing a wide variety of crops and significantly affect yield quality and quantity. With KULTIVAS, we pursue the goal of helping South Tyroleans agriculture with hard and far-reaching decisions, by using Big Data and state-of-the-art machine learning methods. Our automated system collects data from various open and proprietary sources and calculates forecasting and interpolation models for different parameters, such as start of flowering, precipitation amounts and sunshine hours in orchards.

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Know your farm!
How data-driven decisions are transforming agriculture
Johannes Erschbamer
Solution Manager @ KONVERTO AG

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What’s happening?
Agriculture
Organic production
Shifting demographics
Climate crisis
Growing population
Soil erosion
Biodiversity loss
Demanding consumers
More food with higher quality
Keep young farmers inspired
Resilience against global economy factors
Extreme weather
Soil exhaustion
Increased labor costs
Clean energy
Resource conflicts
Higher productivity
Labor shortage

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Irrigation techniques
© Kevin Dooley, Attribution 2.0 Generic © Dwayne Madden, Attribution 2.0 Generic © Ryo Chijiiwa, Attribution 2.0 Generic

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Apple harvest
© Südtiroler Apfelkonsortium © Südkurier, Claudia Ladwig © Nationalgeographic, Spencer Lowell

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Crop protection
© Biological Control Research Institute of Türkiye © Waibl Sprayers © InsightTRAC

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DATA
© Manel Torralba, Attribution 2.0 Generic

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With KULTIVAS we combine
data and science…
…to help people make
better decisions

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Platform architecture
Simplified overview of technical components

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#1: Variety-Location

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#1: Variety-Location

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#1: Variety-Location

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#2: Atlas

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#2: Atlas

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#2: Atlas

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#2: Atlas

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• Collaboration with Eurac Research to assess and map the
impacts of future climate conditions in South Tyrol
• Generate high-resolution datasets and maps; predicting
future climate conditions, like temperature and precipitation
amount
• Understand the cultivar sensitivity to climate change
(grapevines, apple orchards)
• Support stakeholders in fruit cooperatives, organizations
and policy makers with adaption and cultivation decisions
• Research and development starts beginning of 2023
#3: ClimSmart

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Johannes Erschbamer
@ersjoh
Data. Insights.
Better decisions.
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