The pilots focuses on organic tillage crops such as wheat, sunflower, soybean and corn (Vojvodina, Northern Serbia) and on fruits such as raspberry, sour cherry, apple and plum (Central Serbia). This pilot employs EO based ecosystem services for the detection and distinction between organic and non-organic farming activities, verification of Ecological Focus Areas, and the use of multiannual crop rotation including mandatory leguminous crops as the main or cover crop for rotating crops and other green manure crops. OCS will, through the project, cross their data (farmer’s declarations and data from on-spot inspection) and geospatial data from GeoSerbia. Additionally, intra-field analysis will be conducted, biophysical parameters will be also extracted and analysed by ML models, in order to provide related recommendations to the farmers about the optimal use of organic fertilizers, the best selection of crop, and the estimation of yield. Blockchain-based traceability system is following product organic sunflower oil, produced from Univerexport and certified by OCS. In the year 2024, about 38 tonnes of sunflower from 12.7 ha and produced quantity of almost 10.000 litres of organic sunflower oil is expected. Generally everything is digitalized and very easy to follow and include in a blockchain system. OCS will also include products, such as organic apple juice in blockchain system.

Relevance to ALLIANCE

This pilot is linked to the ALLIANCE organic pasta demonstrator, which also focuses on the detection of organic vs. conventional farming practices in wheat [https://alliance-heu-project.eu/pilots/rapid-pesticide-fingerprinting-o…]. Furthermore, Blockchain technology [https://alliance-heu-project.eu/sites/default/files/dissemination/ALLIA…] fis used in all of the ALLIANCE demonstrators [https://alliance-heu-project.eu/pilots].

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