Le Mas Numérique: A new model to promote on-farm innovation among digital service providers and to support adoption

Abstract

International audienceThe objective of the article is to present the results of a project that led to the design and development of a long-term digital Mediterranean farm (commercial wine estate) in the south of France. This farm is intended to demonstrate both the technical and functional interest of digital agricultural tools being adopted by winegrowers and technical services. It presents the original collaboration, the organisation and the financing model that was chosen in order to design a real digital farm with continually up-to-date and updating agri-technologies. This model is new and brings industry, academic and consultancy into the process and allows the digital farm to be continually supported. In 2019, there were 15 digital services embedded on the farm to answer practical issues related to production management and crop protection as well as practical issues related to the interoperability of these services. This model has promoted on-farm interoperability experimentation by digital agriculture service providers and led to new services to fill information gaps