Intelligente Unkrautregulierung im Beet

JaetRobi aims to enable herbicide-free, automated weed control in direct-seeded vegetable crops—for individual horticultural operations using practical equipment.

Weed control in organic gardening is very time-consuming. Especially in the case of direct-seeded crops with slow early growth, such as carrots, beets, but also onions and herbs, it is necessary to remove weeds as early as possible from the immediate vicinity of the crops. In organic farming, the use of chemical pesticides is not permitted. Therefore, weed control is carried out here using adapted cultivation and soil management practices, such as harrowing or hoeing. Specifically, direct-seeded vegetable crops in organic farming can, within the row, only be kept free of weeds through manual hoeing, which results in a significant labor input of approximately 200 labor-hours per hectare. To ensure sustainable horticultural production, alternative methods of weed control are necessary, as manual weeding is very laborious, time-consuming, and costly, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to find suitable labor.