The Greek government has plans to collect agriculture information into a data base that will be open to everyone, including researchers, farmers and policy makers.
The data will include satellite-gathered weather conditions, the information collected by farmers who use precision-farming technology and much more.
Greece is the first government in Europe to make this move, but politicians in the European Union telling member countries that his is what they ought to copy.
The EU executive seems to be satisfied with the Greek government’s plan and describes its approach as a “win-win” situation for all, reports EUROACTIV.
“The digitisation of agriculture and precision farming present enormous potential to improve the competitiveness and environmental sustainability of European agricultural production, thus adding value and jobs in the agri-food sector,” Commissioner Phil Hogan said an interview with ERUOACTIV.
So what's the Canadian response? Are we going to continue to have a fractured database, with many individual organizations, such as breed associations, marketing boards and tractor companies maintaining separate records?
Or are we going to copy Greece and gather it all into a database that is open to everybody so together we can made maximum progress?
