SUSTAINABLE WEED MANAGEMENT IN AGRICULTURE WITH LASER-BASED AUTONOMOUS TOOLS

WeLASER aims to merge current technologies to build, assess and push into the market a precision weeding system based on high-power laser sources and autonomous mobile systems with the main objective of eliminating the use of herbicides while improving productivity and competitiveness.

According to the European Parliament, our production systems should turn out enough food to feed the growing world population. In Europe, agricultural production is guaranteed using about 130 Million tonnes of synthetic herbicides every year (apart from other chemicals). However, herbicides persist in the environment, destroy non-target plants and beneficial insects for the soil and produce health effects in animals and humans, including cancer, birth defects and disruption of the endocrine system.

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