CICS 10
Local/regional values chains, up to national to bring out other groups in FNCUMA network
Topic
Shared equipment
Country
France
Responsible
FN CUMA
Objectives:
- Clean crops → Secure the quality during storage
- Sort crops → Improve economic value; control animal feed; recover waste
- Sort seeds → Limit risk of weeds
- Improve flexibility → Of use and organization with mobile sorter
Other objectives of the CICS: Manage sowing with different depth requirements; harvest mixtures with two heights (pruning harvester); harvest mixtures with two maturity (pick-up with carpet).
The stakeholders involved are the farmers themselves.
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