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FARMING BY SATELLITE launches ideas competition - sponosored by CLAAS
Precision agriculture competition
FARMING BY SATELLITE launches ideas competition – sponsored by CLAAS
Mid-March saw the start of this year's FARMING BY SATELLITE competition which is once again being supported by CLAAS as a sponsor. An initiative of the European GNSS Agency (GSA) and the European Environment Agency (EEA), FARMING BY SATELLITE is aimed at young farmers as well as trainees and students, principally in the fields of IT, mechanical engineering and agricultural sciences. The competition promotes the continuous development of the use of GNSS and Earth observation systems in European and African agriculture. Its objective is to support sustainable farming practices, improve efficiency and resource usage and so reduce the impact on the environment.
The 2020 edition of the competition includes a Special Africa Prize for solutions which cater for the specific needs and resources of the continent's communities and states with a view to improving their degree of self-sufficiency and bringing sustainable modernisation to African agriculture.
"Who would have thought that Galileo and Copernicus would be able to convince young farmers to become tech-savvy entrepreneurs applying innovations derived from space data to improve the quality of life? We need young farmers who are innovative in order to develop competitive and yet sustainable agriculture. It is only natural that they should make use of the opportunities presented by space technologies and our objective with this competition is to support them in achieving the best possible solution," declared Pascal Claudel, Acting Executive Director of the GSA.
Applicants can take part as individuals or as a team and register online from 16 March until
15 June 2020, with the top teams selected as finalists for the last round. A total prize purse of 10,000 euros will be distributed between the top four participants.
The 2020 edition of FARMING BY SATELLITE is sponsored by agricultural engineering equipment manufacturer CLAAS. Full details of the competition are available at www.farmingbysatellite.eu
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CLAAS (www.claas-group.com) is a family business founded in 1913 and is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of agricultural engineering equipment. The company, with corporate headquarters in Harsewinkel, Westphalia, is the European market leader in combine harvesters. CLAAS is the world leader in another large product group, self-propelled forage harvesters. CLAAS is also a top performer in world-wide agricultural engineering with tractors, agricultural balers and green harvesting machinery. The CLAAS product portfolio also includes state-of-the-art farming information technology. CLAAS employs more than 11,400 workers worldwide and posted sales of 3.8 billion euros in the 2019 financial year.
