Programme: Foods

Mobile Professor is a project whose idea is to form a team of specialist scientists in the most important areas of animal husbandry, who will personally visit each of the holdings of the participating sheep farmers and prepare a specific scientific and practical analysis of each farm. The main activities are to share knowledge and make recommendations, to implement recommendations by farmers and to monitor the effects of changes on the performance of the farms. Several areas will be affected, namely:
1. Feeding
2. Breeding
3.Reproduction
4. Mechanization and automation
5. Zoohygiene and buildings
6.Health
7. Economics
Another part of the project involves the production and testing of a vacuum line for innovative processing of sheep feed by dehydration. Some of the farmers involved in the project grow alfalfa, which they dry and use to feed their sheep. They share the following problems:
Prolonged stay of alfalfa in the field increases the risk of losses caused by adverse climatic conditions:
- washing of soluble nutrients and minerals, soluble part of protein;
- conditions are created for the development of mold and fungal diseases and the corresponding presence of mycotoxins, or contamination of the feed with soil.
The new alfalfa processing method will test whether these problems can be overcome.
Thirdly, as part of the project, it is envisaged to introduce the use of smart farm management systems on the holdings of all participating farmers, with the aim of facilitating farmers in their work and improving their activities.
The main results and benefits of the activities envisaged under the project are as follows:
 Participating farms will become more successful;
 Participating farms will become more profitable;
The model of the project will be used in many other farms in the coming years.