Description du projet
La gestion des ravageurs pour une production efficace de phéromones
Les ravageurs, les agents pathogènes et les mauvaises herbes entraînent jusqu’à 40 % de pertes chaque année dans l’agriculture. Les phéromones ont déjà été utilisées pour l’alerte précoce des fléaux et pour la lutte assistée contre les fléaux par des captures de masse. Toutefois, plusieurs inconvénients empêchent leur utilisation à plus grande échelle, comme des méthodes de production lentes et coûteuses et un contrôle fastidieux. Le projet Ecofarming Synergy, financé par l’UE, a développé, grâce à Ferimark 2016, ecoberSYNTHESIS qui propose des phéromones jusqu’à 82 % moins chères produites en Europe et des pièges intelligents qui réduisent considérablement les visites sur le terrain des agriculteurs et des autorités publiques. La méthodologie utilisée comprend les énergies renouvelables et fournit des informations en temps réel aux agriculteurs et aux autorités agricoles via une application mobile.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
- 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
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Régime de financement
SME-1 - SME instrument phase 1Coordinateur
38530 LAS CALETILLAS-CANDELARIA
Espagne
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.