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Round table meet in cooperation with Tartu University on digitalisation technologies and agri-food sector
A round table discussion meet to initiate joint research collaborations and academic cooperation with researchers from Tartu University was organized in our university on 12th December 2022.
The focus theme relied on exploring various avenues for the application of digitalization in the agri-food sector. The emphasis was on identifying present gaps and finding practical (digital) solutions for the recurring sustainability challenges in the Estonian agri-food systems. Topics discussed were related to edge/fog computing, cloud computing, IoT platform, sensor methods, traceability, robotics applications and frameworks for the digitalization process in the agri-food industry.
The meeting was coordinated and moderated by Rajeev Bhat (Professor ERA-Chair in Valortech). The Director of Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Toomas Tiirats chaired the session, who stressed on the need of adopting transformations in the agri-food sector, specifically digitalization technologies. The meeting delegates present were Prof. (s) Mati Roasto, Ahmed Awad, Arun Singh, Chinmaya Kumar Dehury and Mehrdad Asadi.