Sensors for measuring soil humidity and temperature, use of drones, lasers and UV rays for detection of plant illnesses, robotized agricultural mechanisation with navigation and meteorological stations, robotized mobile laboratories, mobile phone and desktop apps are just some of the solutions helping farmers on large and small parcels, it was said at the seminar on new technologies in Serbian and Italian agriculture, organized by the Italian agency for foreign trade ITA/ICE.

It was pointed out that former farmers of the future, i.e. those who used new technologies in production and processing, had become reality and that farmers who used robots and artificial intelligence were the farmers of the present time.

- Italy and Serbia have a solid economic and trade cooperation, but the aim is to improve it, especially in the field of scientific research, said H.E. Luca Gori, the Ambassador of Italy to Serbia. – That is why memorandums signed at the International Agricultural Fair by companies and institutes dealing with new technologies in both countries are so important.

The work of the Biosense Institute was presented by the Head of the Laboratory Jovana Stanojev, who pointed out that a group of experts from the Institute dealt with satellite image processing, i.e. using data from the space to improve agricultural production. Other topics included the use of artificial intelligence in agricultural production, stimulators for precision agriculture, which show virtually what could happen if a parameter in digital agriculture were to change.