"Sense, analyze, act, that’s what growers are doing all day. Monitoring and judging the plants, analyzing all information and taking action when needed. The expertise and experience of the growers are the main sources for actions to be taken," says Aad van den Berg, Managing Director at Delphy. In this article, he shares his horticulture vision. "Action is taken manually on crops or as setpoints for any automation. It’s these green fingers of the grower that analyze the plant status and that define the actions at their core, while data supports this process more and more. "
"However, nowadays green fingers are limited to the availability of growers, the challenge is to scale up and to make the green knowledge robust and applicable for horticulture worldwide." He explains that is why digital transformation of the green fingers into IT applications is the future. "This will support and finally replace the unique skills of the grower."
"Green finger applications could model the crops, predict and manage plant development and growth and create setpoints and actions based on plant requirements. So, today steps are collecting more data and optimizing growth, tomorrow steps are digital transforming of the green fingers."
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