HORIZON-CL6-2027-03-GOVERNANCE-04: Independent evaluation of AI advice, adoption economics and an IoT-equipped cereal pilot in Türkiye (TAGEM)

The AI and Agricultural Technologies Research Center of TAGEM, the research directorate of Türkiye's Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, is looking for a GOVERNANCE-04 consortium. We can lead a task or a work package on evaluation and impact.

We bring three things. The first is independent testing of AI advisory assistants. We build test sets grounded in agronomic, market and regulatory sources, score correct answers as well as the cases where the assistant should decline to answer, and compare open-weight language models, which we run on Türkiye's national HPC infrastructure.

The second is the economics of adoption: who adopts and at what cost, cost per advice episode, net benefit per farm type, and causal impact evaluation of the pilots.

The third is a pilot in a different farming system. Our center can run a pilot on dryland cereals in the Konya basin, with its own IoT field sensors and satellite data feeding the advisory tool, and test the tool in Turkish with farmers and public advisers. This shows whether the solution transfers beyond the EU pilots.

TAGEM is a partner in TRUAGDATA (Agriculture of Data partnership, 2027 to 2029). We are looking for a coordinator, advisory networks, farmer and forester organisations and technology providers.