With support from “ABA “ASTRA”, Trimble and AgriLab, a new, modern precision-agriculture lab has opened at NUBiP University of Ukraine.
This was reported on the university’s official website (opens in a new tab).
The lab was created for the Agrobiology Faculty’s new specialization, “Agrochemical service in precision agricultural production”.
«The lab consists of two parts – for the computer classroom, Trimble, together with “ABA “ASTRA” and AgriLab, provided a set of licensed software for 20 computers, which students will use to analyze the data obtained from the lab and build task maps. The second part – a practical lab, housing demonstration stands, that is, the displays fitted on tractors. On the display, using a flash drive or the cloud, you can send the task map that the equipment will work from, for example, configuring field equipment such as a planter or a fertilizer spreader».
Yevgen Kondratyev – head of the precision-agriculture department at “ABA “ASTRA”
According to him, thanks to the precision-agriculture lab, students will get the chance to get closer to real-world production.
«Overall success is guaranteed by the “education-science-production” triangle. And it’s exactly this kind of specialist for the agricultural sector that will be trained in a lab set up with business support»–from the companies AgriLab, Trimble and “ABA “ASTRA”–
Vyacheslav Tretyak – Trimble representative
University rector Stanislav Nikolaenko reported that over the last 5 years the university has spent UAH 135 million on setting up the newest material and technical base, including modern labs. Last on this list – the Agrobiology Faculty’s lab, which will train modern specialists with a practical component factored in.
What’s more, thanks to the Agrobiology Faculty’s dean’s office, the lab was additionally equipped with several drones – for remote plant sensing in the field.
