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Focus groups on users needs
Spain (April 2024), Cyprus (June 2024) and Italy (July 2024)
Following the objectives set for the first six months, we organized three focus group encounters centered on specific crops: Olives in Valencia (Spain) on 23 April, citrus in Limassol (Cyprus) on 25 June and vineyards in Bologna (Italy) on 2 July. Each meeting involved a half-day session with around 30 stakeholders, engaged in a co-creation approach to define the key features of the virtual platform. This platform will be in the cloud and will serve as the portal to the Cerberus multi-platform system for crop protection. The participants were split in focused tables comprising small growers, farmer associations, professional spray applicators, government agencies, consultants, policymakers, researchers, farm equipment manufacturers, etc.
First insect traps set up in pilot vineyards
Italy and Cyprus, April 2024
LAUDAV (IT) and VINE (CY) have installed the first set of traps for monitoring Lobesia botrana. The images show the conventional traps with sticky paper (left) and the IoT traps developed by EFOS (SL) (right). Early catches have been reported in April. Next stages involve the installation of traps in the citrus and olive orchards.
Kick-off meeting
The project CERBERUS, MULTIPLATFORM FIELD SURVEILLANCE FOR INTEGRAL CROP HEALTH, EARLY DETECTION AND ACTUATION (HORIZON-CL6-2023-GOVERNANCE-01-16. HORIZON-RIA. Grant agreement: 101134878), just started.
On 30 January 2024, the partners of the project got together in the coordinator (UPV – Universitat Politècnica de València) facilities. They had a dynamic agenda including partners’ presentations, presentations about the tasks, planning, management…, ending with a visit to the fields owned by Naranjas del Carmen (NACAR), end-user partner.
