What is Precision Agriculture?
Precision agriculture is a modern, data-driven approach to farming that combines technology, real-time monitoring and informed decision-making. It uses soil and climate sensors to monitor moisture, temperature and nutrient levels in real time, while satellite imagery and drones are used to map variability across fields and greenhouses.
Based on this data, we design and implement targeted irrigation and fertilization programs. Our goal is to provide each plant with exactly what it needs, precisely when it needs it. This helps us maintain product quality and consistency across batches.
By optimizing the use of agricultural inputs, we reduce unnecessary resource consumption and minimize our environmental footprint. At the same time, harvesting is planned based on ripening indicators that are regularly monitored throughout the growing season.
Crop-related decisions are supported by specialized software that combines sensor data, historical records and weather forecasts, enabling us to make more accurate and timely decisions.
In this way, precision agriculture provides our growers with a comprehensive range of powerful and practical tools, helping us achieve more predictable production, higher product quality and sustainable growth.
GlobalG.A.P.
GRASP
SPRING
GIS and Satellite Field Monitoring
Our GIS platform is connected to Sentinel-2 satellite layers for daily field monitoring, plant health assessment and pest/disease forecasting. It also links with European databases supporting environmental monitoring and biodiversity assessment.
Precision Agriculture Supports Low-Residue Production
Our irrigation and nutrition programme is based on in-house Plant SAP and Soil SAP analyses using specialized reflectometers and ion meters. Irrigation decisions are supported by weather stations and the FAO ETo approach.
Results are evaluated automatically by the Agro Advanced AI module, helping us reduce excess nitrogen and manage nutrient antagonism, especially sodium.
This supports healthier crops and enables control of potato late blight and strawberry powdery mildew with fewer applications.
Precision Agriculture Plant SAP Evaluation vs Fertigation Programme
Precision Agriculture – Our Meteorological Data
Our private weather stations record temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, rainfall, leaf wetness and soil temperature. These data support disease forecasting models for strawberry powdery mildew (Kast/OiDiag model).
The system helps us reduce unnecessary pesticide applications and lower residue risk. Data processing is supported by the Adcon telemetry platform.
Crop Protection Strategy
We maintain our own licence for the supply and use of plant protection products and propagating material for our own production needs.
This gives us direct control over product selection, application timing, resistance management and residue strategy.
Our crop protection decisions are based on prevention, field monitoring, disease forecasting and microscopic diagnosis where required, rather than routine corrective applications.
This independence strengthens supply security and supports a competitive production cost structure.
Microscopic Observation
Cultivation Planning
- NATIONAL AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEME AGRO 2.1/2.2.
Description:
- Family meetings and customer communication for variety selection and availability planning.
- Soil sampling to prepare the best fertigation programme for each field. – Soil Testing Laboratories
Records:
- Soil analysis records
- Fertigation guidance
- Field maps
- Plant orders from supplier invoices
Involves:
- Family Producers
- Company Agronomist
- Soil Testing Laboratories
Field Preparation, Fertigation System Installation and Base Fertilisation
Scheme Implementation:
- NATIONAL AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEME AGRO 2.1/2.2.
- GFSI SCHEME – GLOBALG.A.P. IFA FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
- GLOBALG.A.P. GRASP.
- CORNELL EIQ ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT EVALUATION.
Description:
- Our family producers prepare the fields using their own machinery for ploughing and installation of drip irrigation systems (Phi 16 or Phi 20, 40 cm emitter spacing, 4 L/hour/emitter) or sprinklers for watermelons.
- Base fertilisers are applied according to soil analysis results.
- Energy consumption is monitored for CO2e calculation.
Records:
- Soil preparation records
- Fertigation records
- Energy measurement records
- Nutrient contribution calculation from fertilisers
- GRASP / labour legislation records for employees
Involves:
- Family Producers
- Company Agronomist
Transplanting
Scheme Implementation:
- NATIONAL AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEME AGRO 2.1/2.2.
- GFSI SCHEME – GLOBALG.A.P. IFA FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
- GLOBALG.A.P. GRASP.
- CORNELL EIQ ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT EVALUATION.
Description:
- Transplanting is performed mechanically for watermelons and manually by trained employees for strawberries.
- Energy consumption is monitored for CO2e calculation.
Records:
- Transplanting records
- Energy measurement records
- GRASP / labour legislation records for employees
Involves:
- Family Producers
- Company Agronomist
- Local Agronomists
- Field Employees
Vegetative Development up to Pre-Harvest Stage
Scheme Implementation:
- NATIONAL AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEME AGRO 2.1/2.2.
- GFSI SCHEME – GLOBALG.A.P. IFA FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
- GLOBALG.A.P. GRASP.
- CORNELL EIQ ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT EVALUATION.
Description
- Plant health is monitored by our agronomist.
- Fertigation and crop protection programmes are applied according to crop stage, soil conditions and monitoring data.
- Lysimeters are installed in selected fields with drainage issues or low cation exchange capacity, supporting more accurate fertigation planning.
- Energy consumption is monitored for CO2e calculation.
Records:
- Fertigation records
- Crop protection records
- Lysimeter records
- GRASP / labour legislation records for employees
- Energy measurement records
- Nutrient contribution calculation from fertilisers
Involves:
- Family Producers
- Company Agronomist
- Local Agronomists
- Field Employees
Αξιολόγηση Συγκομιδής, Επιλογή και Συγκομιδή
Scheme Implementation:
- NATIONAL AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEME AGRO 2.1/2.2.
- GFSI SCHEME – GLOBALG.A.P. IFA FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
- GLOBALG.A.P. GRASP.
- CORNELL EIQ ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT EVALUATION.
Description:
- Our agronomist evaluates PHI limits of the applied crop protection programme through Agro Advanced. The software also supports evaluation of pesticide degradation curves (Risk Free Network – Risk Analysis System) to meet customer-specific MRL requirements.
- Pesticide residue analysis is performed and results are uploaded to Agro Advanced, improving our pesticide degradation database for future decision-making.
- Our agronomists select the most mature fields and fruits. Brix and size are recorded in the field before harvest.
- Harvesting is performed by trained employees, based on fruit selection by the company specialists.
- LABELLING STAGE 1a: During harvest, products are labelled with date, field name and grower name. Stage 1 labelling covers transport to the packhouse (watermelons and strawberries).
- LABELLING STAGE 1b: When product is shipped directly to the customer, it is labelled according to legislation and customer requirements (strawberries).
Records:
- Risk Free System / Risk Analysis
- Pesticide residue analysis
- Harvest Records
- Transport invoices
- GRASP / labour legislation records for employees
- Energy measurement records
Involves:
- Family Producers
- Company Agronomist
- Laboratories
- Field Employees
Storage, Packaging and Calibration
Scheme Implementation:
- NATIONAL AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEME AGRO 2.1/2.2.
- GFSI SCHEME – GLOBALG.A.P. IFA FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
- GLOBALG.A.P. GRASP.
- CORNELL EIQ ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT EVALUATION.
Description:
- Watermelons are calibrated and watermelons/strawberries are packed. Traceability is maintained for cold rooms, employees, raw materials and packaging materials.
Records:
- Production records
- Employee records
- Temperature / humidity records
Involves:
- Production Manager
Transport to Customer
(Direct Delivery)
Scheme Implementation:
- NATIONAL AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL SCHEME AGRO 2.1/2.2.
- GFSI SCHEME – GLOBALG.A.P. IFA FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.
- GLOBALG.A.P. GRASP.
- CORNELL EIQ ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT EVALUATION.
Description:
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Truck hygiene, odours and temperature are checked before loading (8-10 C where applicable).
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Transport company contracts are evaluated. – Truck hygiene checklist
Records:
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CMR Records
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Invoices
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Transport company contracts – Family
Involves:
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Producers
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Truck Driver
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Company Administration