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Title

Wissensbasierte Standortanalyse für ein umweltgerechtes Unkrautmanagement im integrierten Pflanzenbau

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BETTER-WEEDS

Start

20.04.2021

End

19.04.2024

Coordinating Institute

Julius Kühn-Institut (seit 01.01.08), Institut für Pflanzenschutz in Ackerbau und Grünland

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Summary

Currently, weed control in conventional arable farming systems is predominantly carried out by adapted herbicide strategies. Against the background of negative effects of plant protection products on the environment and an increasing loss of weed diversity on many cultivated areas, new, above all environmentally friendly approaches to weed control must be developed. The greatest challenge for practical agriculture lies in the balance between the need for economic farm management and the associated intensive weed control on the one hand, and the increasing social and political demands for ecologically sound management of arable land on the other. In order to be able to combine these two requirements in a practice-relevant way, a) cost-effective and time-efficient tools for recording different weed species and densities must be available, b) area-specific information on weed occurrence must be generated, and c) concrete management plans for farmers must be derived from distribution maps. The aim of this project is the autonomous recording, AI-based identification and evaluation of weed species occurring on agricultural land and the subsequent creation of georeferenced distribution maps, which also take into account site-specific characteristics of the areas. Based on these area maps, individual, site-specific management plans for weed management are derived and experimentally validated. The main focus is on promoting increased weed diversity while controlling highly competitive weed species.

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Programm zur Innovationsförderung - Bekanntmachung über die Förderung von KI