Precision agriculture to help manage harvest
The Precision Agriculture Centre launched in the Glubokoe State Vocational School – becoming the first of the kind in Belarus
The new establishment will help students and mature specialists in training and a special room is now equipped here – including an automatic driving system and an unusual weather station – to teach them precise agriculture.
Aleksandr Matveichuk, the Deputy Head of the Main Department of Technical Progress and Energy at the Agriculture and Food Ministry, explains that the Centre aims to teach how to save resources, plan and calculate the harvest, “It is thanks to new technologies that farmers will enjoy loss-free production and reduce the number of people employed in agriculture, while increasing the unit capacity of machinery. These measures will ultimately provide an opportunity to receive high income and ensure comfortable living conditions in rural areas."
In addition, an agreement was signed with the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy on the opening of a branch of the Department of Agricultural Machinery at the Glubokoe State Vocational School which will contribute to the establishment of close interaction in training of qualified agricultural specialists countrywide.
This is especially important for the Glubokoe District where an agro-industrial association operates which needs digital technology specialists.
