National Erasmus+ Office
in Turkmenistan
Project stories
NICoPA -- a path to sustainable farming
30 September 2022
Global climate change increasingly impacts on agriculture development, utilization of energy resources and environment, moreover, the continuous growth of the Earth’s population raises the most urgent problem connected with providing humanity with food. From this perspective, the world faces a triple task in the 21st century: to feed the growing population, to do this in an environmentally sustainable way, and to cope with the problem of hunger. Precision agriculture is the way to increase the efficiency of labour, increase yields, reduce the application of nitrate fertilizers and reduce the cost of cultivation various crops. Transition to sustainable farming also requires training professionals able to use geospatial technologies and remote sensing technology to collect and analyse necessary information and other new eco activities. In the framework of Erasmus+ the project NICOPA (New and innovative courses on precision agriculture) has been implemented since January 2019 at three Turkmen universities: Niyazov Turkmen State University (TAU), Turkmen Agricultural Institute in Dashoguz (TAI), and Turkmen State Institute of Architecture and Construction (TSACI).
Show more
Global climate change increasingly impacts on agriculture development, utilization of energy resources and environment, moreover, the continuous growth of the Earth’s population raises the most urgent problem connected with providing humanity with food. From this perspective, the world faces a triple task in the 21st century: to feed the growing population, to do this in an environmentally sustainable way, and to cope with the problem of hunger. Precision agriculture is the way to increase the efficiency of labour, increase yields, reduce the application of nitrate fertilizers and reduce the cost of cultivation various crops. Transition to sustainable farming also requires training professionals able to use geospatial technologies and remote sensing technology to collect and analyse necessary information and other new eco activities. In the framework of Erasmus+ the project NICOPA (New and innovative courses on precision agriculture) has been implemented since January 2019 at three Turkmen universities: Niyazov Turkmen State University (TAU), Turkmen Agricultural Institute in Dashoguz (TAI), and Turkmen State Institute of Architecture and Construction (TSACI).
Show more
