--- title: How Python is Democratising Agritech for Farmers Across... description: [EuroPython 2026 - S2 on 2026-07-17] 🎤 *How Python is Democratising Agritech for Farmers Across Europe by Felipe Arruda Pontes* 🔗... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-python-is-democratising-agritech-for-farmers-across-europe---felipe-arruda-pontes-pvspxthea twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How Python is Democratising Agritech for Farmers Across Europe - Felipe Arruda Pontes | daily.dev og:description: [EuroPython 2026 - S2 on 2026-07-17] 🎤 *How Python is Democratising Agritech for Farmers Across Europe by Felipe Arruda Pontes* 🔗... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-python-is-democratising-agritech-for-farmers-across-europe---felipe-arruda-pontes-pvspxthea og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/pvspXthEA.png og:image:alt: How Python is Democratising Agritech for Farmers Across Europe - Felipe Arruda Pontes og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How Python is Democratising Agritech for Farmers Across Europe - Felipe Arruda Pontes **[EuroPython Conference](https://daily.dev/sources/europython)** · 30 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary [EuroPython 2026 - S2 on 2026-07-17] 🎤 *How Python is Democratising Agritech for Farmers Across Europe by Felipe Arruda Pontes* 🔗 https://ep2026.europython.eu/session/how-python-is-democratising-agritech-for-farmers-across-europe 📝 Abstract: How can you create open digital tools that run on both the Cloud and the Edge for small/medium farms across Greek vineyards, French cattle ranches, and Belgian potato fields? The OpenAgri project, funded by the EU Horizon program and now part of the Linux Foundation's AgStack, has developed reusable Python tools for this purpose. These building blocks, using Python Web frameworks such as Django and FastAPI, are already being tested in 14 real-world sustainability pilots across Europe. In this presentation, we will show how Python is helping farmers, from camera-based scouting in vineyards to UHF RFID cattle monitoring, UAV pest detection, IoT smart irrigation, and compost production monitoring. We will talk about what works across different countries, the challenges that arise when your "data centre is a barn", and what still needs improvement. Join us to hear farming stories from across Europe and learn practical lessons on deploying Python microservices on Edge devices to build a more democratised agritech landscape in Europe. --- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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