How Python is Democratising Agritech for Farmers Across Europe
- Track:
- Ethics, Social Responsibility, Sustainability, Legal
- Type:
- Talk
- Level:
- intermediate
- Duration:
- 30 minutes
Abstract
How can you create open digital tools that run on both the Cloud and the Edge for small/medium farms across Greek vineyards, French cattle ranches, and Belgian potato fields? The OpenAgri project, funded by the EU Horizon program and now part of the Linux Foundation's AgStack, has developed reusable Python tools for this purpose. These building blocks, using Python Web frameworks such as Django and FastAPI, are already being tested in 14 real-world sustainability pilots across Europe.
In this presentation, we will show how Python is helping farmers, from camera-based scouting in vineyards to UHF RFID cattle monitoring, UAV pest detection, IoT smart irrigation, and compost production monitoring. We will talk about what works across different countries, the challenges that arise when your "data centre is a barn", and what still needs improvement.
Join us to hear farming stories from across Europe and learn practical lessons on deploying Python microservices on Edge devices to build a more democratised agritech landscape in Europe.