AGRINEXO .PT Agroecology Geospatial Agent - Portugal

AGRINEXO .PT is an AGRINEXO AGA (Agroecology Geospatial Agent) based platform operated by ETAPA RACIONAL. AGRINEXO .PT is territorially scoped, with data sources and a knowledge base corpus specific to the Portuguese edaphoclimatic context and EU's Common Agricultural Policy.

When a user asks a question in AGRINEXO AGA AI Assistant, the LLM is offered a set of tools to get fields, crops and operations data, to make grounded answers possible, mitigating the risk of inadequate information. The AI assistant can draft operations and analyse crop images to propose technical observations on the state of the crop, weeds, pests and diseases.

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About AGRINEXO AGA

AGRINEXO AGA is an agroecology geospatial agent, built to support farmers and technicians building more sustainable and resilient agroecosystems.

Agroecology is a multidisciplinary perspective encompassing main agroecosystems services: agricultural production, climate regulation, soil and water conservation, habitats maintenance and landscape preservation.

Agrifood systems account for about one-third of total anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. They are generated: within the farm gate (49%), from crop and livestock production activities; by land-use change (19%), caused by deforestation, biomass fires and peatland degradation processes often linked to land clearance for agriculture; and in pre- and post-production processes (32%), comprising the supply chain including food manufacturing, retail, household consumption and food disposal [1].

With the current technologies there a number of conflicting goals, that are extremely difficult to balance and conciliate. Soil is a major reservoir of carbon and while any loss of soil organic carbon content results in increased CO2 atmospheric concentrations, tillage is required to control weeds and prepare the land for crops. Over irrigation and the misuse of fertilizers and pesticides present a major risk to the quality and availability of freshwater, but any loss of primary productivity would require the further expansion of the land used for agriculture, with increased environmental impacts and an inherent loss in biodiversity [2].

Optimizing farming operations from an agroecological perspective, is a multi-objective endeavour that requires efficient land use and efficient energy use. The availability of relevant and accurate information increases the ability of individual farmers, technicians, land owners, and other relevant stakeholders, to make appropriate decisions.

Although we live in an era of unprecedented data availability, obtaining information that is relevant at farm level remains a major challenge. AGRINEXO AGA aims to combine AI reasoning with agroecology geospatial data to bridge the gap between scientific knowledge and the actionable information required for business decisions.