Crop Planning and Production Process Ontology
(C3PO), a New Model to Assist Diversified Crop
Production
Baptiste Darnala
1,2
, Florence Amardeilh
2
, Catherine Roussey
3
and Clément Jonquet
1,4
1
LIRMM, University of Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France
2
Elzeard, Cité du Numérique, 2 rue Marc Sangnier, 33310, Bègles, France
3
Université Clermont Auvergne, INRAE, UR TSCF, F-63000 Clermont–Ferrand, France.
4
MISTEA, University of Montpellier, INRAE, Institut Agro, Montpellier, France
Abstract
Crop planning and production process ontology (C3P0) is a representation of agricultural knowledge for
diversifed crop production. It is composed of eight modules to take into account all the elements involved
in crop production as well as the complexity for representing farming practices and constraints. Especially,
the crop management module is sliced in three diferent layers to capture the generic information about
crop itineraries, the planned production process and the tasks eventually really achieved been by various
agents in the plots. To implement this ontology, we designed a new pipeline, presented here, integrating
various existing tools to ease the ontology documentation, population and maintenance tasks.
Keywords
ontology, agriculture, semantic resource, knowledge representation, crop itinerary
1. Introduction
Agricultural production practices are changing and crop production are facing multiple vul-
nerabilities: economic, regulatory, environmental and social (isolation, skills, overload, etc.).
Moreover, the pressure created by distribution chains and the consumers’ demand for better
and healthier vegetables, produced in local area, force farmers to improve crop management.
Several scientifc studies [1, 2] have shown diversity –-both in time and space– of cultivated
plants:
• improves risks management with respect to weather and economic changing context;
• delivers a natural defence system against diseases and pest attacks;
• increases stability and resilience of agro-ecosystems.
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Knowledge, September 11-18, 2021, Bolzano, Italy
E baptiste.darnala@elzeard.co (B. Darnala); forence.amardeilh@elzeard.co (F. Amardeilh);
catherine.roussey@inrae.fr (C. Roussey); jonquet@lirmm.fr (C. Jonquet)
G https://www.elzeard.co/ (B. Darnala)
O 0000−0002−6306−4437 (F. Amardeilh); 0000−0002−3076−5499 (C. Roussey); 0000−0002−2404−1582 (C. Jonquet)
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