Operational Group: Sustainable Citrus Growing in the Guadalquivir Valley

The project proposes the implementation and testing of a comprehensive digital system for data analysis and management in the citrus sector. This system, a central element of the Sustainable Citrus Production project in the Guadalquivir Valley, aims to provide the sector and its structures with analytical capabilities that will support, in a professional and rigorous manner, decision-making in agronomic, economic, management, planning, pest prevention, and market aspects, and ultimately, in all aspects that affect or may affect the sector.

As a fundamental part of this system, an open Observatory will be created that is accessible to all stakeholders in the sector, ensuring a flexible and transparent level of transfer and dissemination of knowledge and data. This provides farmers, their associations, the sector, and public authorities with a technological management tool that integrates data from different sources, analyzes them intelligently, and offers improved opportunities for managing all aspects of the sector—economic, agro-environmental, and social—through the Observatory and its information and knowledge transfer system.

Ultimately, the goal is to provide new tools and, as a result, achieve a sustainable citrus sector. During the project's development, the goal is to produce data that will demonstrate the potential for crop management that allows for reduced input use and, therefore, improved environmental and economic management. This will be achieved through the development of various techniques and data monitoring in three demonstration fields, which the group will use to develop the project.