It wants to be like Industry 4.0 but faster and more effective. Agriculture 4.0 is an opportunity for the Italian agro-industrial system, but it must reorganize itself, be less dispersive and above all have a common vision. And when organizations move in a concerted way, the results come sooner or later. The Italian Biogas Consortium, for example, has been pushing in recent weeks on Farming For Future project to increase productivity on farms and reduce waste. In early June it will make demonstrations in the area to disseminate the contents of the mission. Beyond the rampant green rhetoric, le Italian campaigns are not all in the same condition.
The Farming program has 10 actions to take that could allow for a qualitative and quantitative leap. Rebalancing North and South could be an achievable goal in the next 5 years, or according to the timing of the European Recovery Fund. The Smart Agrifood Observatory estimates the value of the Italian agricultural market 4.0 in 540 million euros. A growing trend of about 20% per year, but – here's what should make us think – with an effective application limited to 3-4% of the cultivated area. The solutions entrusted to precision cultivation and digitization of work need professional skills and strong investments. At the head of the actions to be put into practice, it is at the top the use of renewable energies. For which the interest of the biogas world is very strong. Here too, obviously, the eyes are on the RecoveryPlan money. 1,92 billion euros provided for by the PNRR sThey are an important driving force for investments in the primary sector in projects that can immediately be started in the Italian agricultural and agro-industrial chain, said the CIB when the Plan went to Brussels.
The measures of the PNRR demonstrate sure attention to the ecological transition and digitization and "with the technological innovations we have today we will be able to produce more using fewer resources and in a more efficient way", he says Peter Gattoni, President of the CIB.
A biogas plant on a farm favors microcircular production systems. As with Industry 4.0 which exploits every stage of the value chain, all the factors of production are reorganized in the countryside: seeds, fertilizers, pesticides. Organic fertilization with digestate is one of the levers on which the new life of farmers is based. Not only do they save on diesel costs, but they supervise a system which, through targeted agronomic management, favors the increase of organic matter and the carbon storage in soils. European funds will also be used for this.
