Interview Evi Lippens (ILVO) - Meat Trial

06/08/20 • 15 min

IoF2020 Podcast

Evi Lippens, researcher at ILVO and representing the IoF2020 Meat Trial explains the challenges affecting the Meat sector and makes connections with the solutions found by the IoF2020 use cases to overcome these challenges.

For instance, the meat demand was greatly impacted by the covid-19 as restaurants stopped their activity. This caused the meat producers to find solutions for avoiding food waste. A safe and affordable storage, new platforms to get in touch with customers, etc... at the same time, livestock continues to live and therefore continues to need veterinarian services and feed. The technologies developed in IoF2020 meat trial use cases proven themselves efficient to maintain a good welfare of livestocks: remote monitoring of vital characteristics and predictive restocking of feed are just a couple of example.

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Interview Peter Paree (ZLTO) - Arable Trial

How has Covid 19 affected the arable sector
Short-term and long-term challenges:

Sector resilience
Field labor
Storage
Quality standards of products
Consequences of crisis on potato markets

Possible use of IoT for helping the sector and contribution sof IoF2020?

Where can IoT help to improve things ?
Product traceability and retail orders
Advisory
Measures that will outlive the crisis

Take home message for policy makers

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Interview Christina Micheloni (AIAB) - Vegetable Trial

Cristina Micheloni, senior researcher at AIAB represents the Vegetable Trial within IoF2020.
She comes back on the main issues that the sector had to face and how the producers found the way to overcome the difficulties. For instance, a huge share of the vegetable production was not able to be sold on the open markets due to covid-19 restrictions.
This led to significant food waste of fresh products, next to that, the production was also impacted by the lack of seasonal workers which were unable to cross the closed borders. IoF2020 use cases have continued the work and tried to identify solutions for some of the challenges. For instance, the remote quality control for certification of products and food traceability.