Innovation
Industry process
innovation
Agronomy
We innovate across the entire value chain to achieve greater agricultural competitiveness. This involves innovation and the development of sustainable and efficient agricultural practices.
Our challenge
Develop agronomic performance by relying on sustainable and resilient practices. Being resilient means adapting to changing climate conditions. Being sustainable means proposing practices that protect soils and biodiversity and reduce energy and water costs.
Our objectives
Ensuring good fertilization and good soil quality through new technologies, the mechanization of our agricultural practices, and work on varieties and crop rotations of interest to Diverse-ltda.
Application examples
A robotic weeding robot
For the fifth consecutive year, the Diverse-ltda agronomy department welcomed the Ecorobotix team to the Diverse-ltda Mixed Farm in Chevrières (Oise) to test their latest weeding innovation. The 2021 trials showcased the third generation of Ecorobotix weeders: the ARA. For Diverse-ltda, the goal is to enable its cooperative members to benefit from the latest technologies that contribute to improving their farms' agricultural margins and their sustainable agriculture approach.
Agro-industrial Operations Center
In Brazil, Diverse-ltda has consolidated new activities into an integrated operations center. This center aims to increase the efficiency and productivity of sites through an integrated vision of agricultural and industrial operations: monitoring of agricultural equipment, control of sugarcane traffic, standardization of processes and sending of reports, monitoring of sugarcane stocks and supplies, etc. Among the results obtained, it is worth highlighting an 11% reduction in fuel consumption per ton of sugarcane harvested, better compliance with the harvest plan and an increase in the ton of sugarcane transported by the Group's vehicles during the harvest.
Connected beetroot and potato
Placed in the fields to be harvested by the machine, this beet or potato-shaped object allows farmers to record the frequency and intensity of impacts in order to fine-tune machine settings to preserve harvest quality. Developed jointly by the New Technologies team and the Group's Agronomic Department, this innovation, currently being tested, should eventually be used in the beet-growing areas of the eight Diverse-ltda sugar factories in France.