AGEON CROP CONSULTING®: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Ageon Crop Consulting® is the technical assistance division of Ageon S.r.l., specialized in agronomic support for customers who adopt soilless and hydroponic cultivation systems.
Since controlling costs and maximizing qualitative and quantitative yield are extremely important, Ageon Crop Consulting was born from the need not only to provide appropriate consulting services for the wide range of products in our catalog, but also decision support during the planning, crop and facility management phases.
Technical agronomic assistance is the tool that all operators in the agricultural sector can use to maximize yields, optimize cultivation processes, optimize resource management and yield returns on initial investments.
In recent years, the agricultural sector has undergone major structural transformations following a growing demand for agri-food products in quantitative and qualitative terms and the need to optimize the available resources. The advent of new technologies and 4.0 Agriculture has led to a great improvement of the entire agri-food chain, in many cases redefining the criteria of technical and operational aspects of the traditional crop systems.
However, these transformations have brought out the importance and need for specific technical skills in soilless crops, capable of supporting companies in implementing these technologies and applications. In this context, the importance for companies and growers to be supported by qualified agronomic technical assistance becomes clear. Agronomic consultancy can be carried out in the form of various services and activities that are not limited to mere monitoring of crops. Agronomic services can include laboratory analyses to investigate the physical, chemical and microbiological characteristics of source water, substrate / soil and nutrient solutions. Besides that, it can provide valuable decision-making and management support crop cultivation. Furthermore, with the recent digitization of production processes, which has also affected the agricultural sector, new forms of online agronomic assistance have developed. These can support clients remotely and promptly respond to their every need. Finally, agronomic consulting can be very useful in the planning and programming phases of new cultivation systems through a real project assistance service, which can even include the drafting of actual business plans for hydroponic crops.
Lately, the increased focus on sustainable processes and methods capable of maximizing yields and increasing product quality has led to the spread of so-called cultivation in a protected environment, that is a greenhouse. Among these solutions you can find the most modern hydroponic greenhouses that utilize soilless cultivation systems. However, these solutions inevitably require adequate technical preparation, which is often lacking or insufficient to fully utilize such systems. In this area, specialized agronomic assistance in soilless and hydroponics can prove to be the winning solution.
Ageon Crop Consulting® utilizes a range of consulting tools tailored to the specific needs of individual companies: