Descripción del proyecto
Gestión de plagas para una producción eficaz de feromonas
Las plagas, los patógenos y las malas hierbas ocasionan unas pérdidas anuales de hasta un 40 % en el ámbito de la agricultura. Las feromonas ya se utilizan tanto para la alerta temprana de plagas como para su control asistido mediante capturas masivas. Sin embargo, hay una serie de inconvenientes que impiden que se utilicen de manera generalizada, como las metodologías de producción caras y lentas, y los controles que llevan mucho tiempo. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos Ecofarming Synergy, a través de Ferimark 2016, ha desarrollado ecoberSYNTHESIS que proporciona feromonas hasta un 82 % más baratas producidas en Europa y una trampa inteligente (ecoberTRAP) que reduce drásticamente las visitas de los agricultores y las autoridades públicas al campo. La metodología empleada incluye energías renovables y proporciona información en tiempo real para agricultores y autoridades agrícolas a través de una aplicación móvil.
Objetivo
With 12M farmers and workers, agriculture plays an important role in the EU. Pests, pathogens and weeds are responsible for annual losses of 26-40%. Increasing concerns on the effects of pesticides on the environment, and most importantly, on human health, plus the raise of organic agriculture, result in an increased use of insect pheromones for both early-alert of plagues and assisted plague control via mass trapping. Pheromones have been already used for both pest monitoring and control, but a number of drawbacks prevent their wider use: slow and expensive production methodologies; and time consuming monitoring by existing traps (frequent visits to the fields needed). Ferimark 2016 provides: up to 82% cheaper pheromones produced in Europe and a smart trap which reduces farmers and public authorities visits to the field down to 1/6 of the current ones, which uses renewable energy and provides real time information to farmers and agricultural authorities via a mobile app. Ferimark 2016 developed and validated, ecoberSYNTHESIS, a novel synthesis method for fast and cost-effective (up to 82% cheaper compared to reported methodologies) production of a wide variety of pheromones; and designed ecoberTRAP, a novel IoT ready smart trap which reduces field visits down to 1/6, saving time and costs to end-users which uses our pheromones. Therefore, our holistic solution offers both pest early-alert, control, and monitoring and pheromone production under the same SME provider. During SMEInst-1, the SME will apply ecoberSYNTHESIS to the production of new pheromones and their certification, and will validate ecoberTRAP at European level (which also uses Ferimark 2016 very own pheromones produced in Europe) via new field tests. An elaborated business plan will be produced together with a route to SMEInst-2. As a result, following our circa 200 existing clients, the SME´s business plan shows €50.16M sales by 2023.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet of things
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagricultureagronomyplant protection
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturesustainable agriculture
Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
Consulte otros proyectos de esta convocatoriaConvocatoria de subcontratación
H2020-SMEInst-2018-2020-1
Régimen de financiación
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinador
38530 LAS CALETILLAS-CANDELARIA
España
Organización definida por ella misma como pequeña y mediana empresa (pyme) en el momento de la firma del acuerdo de subvención.