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A Farmer's Journey of Agriculture 4.0

#Agriculture4.0 #SmartFarming #PrecisionFarming

A broad digitization of agricultural enterprises and their value chains holds great potential for economic efficiency, environmental protection, and transparency. But what has prevented widespread implementation so far? Work together with the RWZ on the question: How can we help agricultural enterprises and make it possible for them to move into digital agriculture?

  • ✅ Completed
  • 🏁 Winner

    Congrats to Agracheck und SmartSoil!

  • 🏆 Prize

    15,000 € prize pool in the overall DE 4.0 project + invitation to the Federal Chancellery + promotion of further implementation + chance for further cooperation with RWZ

Submission Template

For the processing of the use cases within the DEUTSCHLAND 4.0 project a common submission template is available. This template will help you to structure your ideas and approaches and to find answers to all relevant questions.

SUBMISSION TEMPLATE (English version)

In addition to this submission template, you will find specific requirements and guiding questions for your Use Case in the "Guiding Questions" tab, which you should consider when preparing your submission.

You can also complement your submission with prototypes, pitch decks, images and video material, higher-level concepts or specific application-related instruments - simply submit these documents together with the submission template via our platform.

The aim is to ensure that solutions within the overall project cover a broad spectrum through this approach: from concrete digital product ideas to higher-level visions

Key Questions

Superior for the submission:

  • What are the biggest problems that still prevent the digitization of agriculture on a broad scale today?
  • How can we succeed in reducing high investment requirements?
  • How can the profitability of individual components or precision farming as a whole be calculated?
  • How can digital know-how be created, expanded and kept up to date in a time-efficient and cost-effective manner?
  • What does a concept look like that enables agricultural enterprises to digitize in a structured and successful way?
  • What contribution can we make to advancing the digitization of agriculture? How can we succeed in making digitization broad-based?
  • How can we market digital solutions in such a way that the less digitally aware farmers are also interested?
  • What are the main arguments in "sales"?

Also considers the various interests of the stakeholders of Agriculture 4.0:

  • Farmers and their families,
  • Agricultural traders and corporates,
  • Equipment manufacturers and food processing companies,
  • Soft- & hardware manufacturer,
  • Food trade and gastronomy,
  • EU, state, federal states, municipalities,
  • NGOs and associations,
  • And last but not least: Every single consumer