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Resilient Food Production with Green Tractors - ResiTrac (ResiTrac)
Project
Project code: kA
Contract period: 01.01.2023
- 31.12.2024
Purpose of research: Applied research
Agricultural machinery has a big impact on the CO2 footprint of modern farming. Machines typically have combustion engines and burn fossil fuels like diesel. ResiTrac has the goal to develop, test and introduce tractors to the market which do not use diesel, but pure plant oil (PPO) like rapeseed oil. This does not only reduce the CO2 footprint of food production, it also makes the farmer independent from the volatile market of imported fossil fuels, because he can grow the necessary oil crops on his own farm. The tractors will be developed by John Deere and tested in Italy, Switzerland and Germany under the accompanying scientific research of the Bern University of Applied Sciences, the Laimburg Research Centre and the TFZ.
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- Renewable Resources
