Smart-In-Ag (short for Smart Indonesian Agriculture) is a joint research program between Wageningen University and Research in The Netherlands and IPB University in Indonesia, together with State Agriculture Polytechnic in Kupang, and the industrial partners: Single Spark, e-Fishery, WorldFish, and Dairy Pro Indonesia. It is funded by INREF and LPDP . Additionally, project partners add to the funding by in-kind contributions.
Given the economic uprising and increase in population, the competition for land is fierce in Indonesia. Therefore, simply expanding dairy and fish production is not an option.
The central question in our project is therefore: can we improve the efficiency, the animal welfare and the environmental impact of dairy and fish production by making better use of SMART farming technologies?