INNO-VEG
The INNO-VEG project was set up to develop innovative methods for carrying out research into field vegetable and potato crops
Reliable research methods are crucial to underpin the evidence base needed to meet the challenges of sustainable intensification of field vegetable and potato production. Traditional crop research relies on replicated treatments in small plots and often manual hand harvesting of plots to assess crop yields and quality, which can be time consuming and expensive. The project has shown that crop sensing can be a quick and accurate alternative way of assessing treatment differences in crop experiments.
Project objective
The overall objective of the project was to increase the speed and uptake of innovation in the field vegetable and potato sectors by i) defining and implementing a new approach for delivering cost-effective research, ii) establishing a cross border innovation network which will create the framework conditions for innovation to facilitate uptake of the new approach.
The new approach will reduce the cost of delivering research, enabling the current research funding to address a wider range of research priorities. It will also facilitate a change from predominately research organization and commercial company led research to one where farmer led research forms an important component. This approach places the farmer at the centre of the research process which helps to up-skill the industry and drive improvements in crop production efficiency by testing and implementing new approaches or products on commercial farms.
Download a ‘Facts and figures’ leafletProject partners: ADAS, inagro, Arvalis and Delphy
The project outputs include:
- Protocol for integrating high-resolution spatial crop data into research experiments
- A framework for farmer-led research
The Protocol and Framework project outputs represent a new approach for delivering research in the field vegetable and potato sectors.
- Cross border innovation network of stakeholders in 2 Seas region
- Five-year implementation plan for the adoption of the new approach for delivering research and to support the continuation of the innovation network.
