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Innovation in Agriculture by Introducing First-Ever Climate-Friendly Tractor

13. October 2021
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AUGA group, Europe’s largest ver­ti­cal­ly inte­grat­ed organ­ic food pro­duc­er, has intro­duced the world’s first hybrid bio­methane and elec­tric trac­tor for pro­fes­sion­al farm use – AUGA M1. Until now, sus­tain­able fuel trac­tors avail­able on the mar­ket have not been suit­able for large-scale farm work. This is the company’s first step in offer­ing tech­no­log­i­cal solu­tions that will help elim­i­nate cli­mate pol­lu­tion through­out the food sup­ply chain and fos­ter sus­tain­able agriculture.

Accord­ing to a recent study, food sys­tems are respon­si­ble for one-third of glob­al green­house gas emis­sions, and a large part of it is due to the use of fos­sil fuels in agri­cul­tur­al machin­ery. Accord­ing to Kęs­tutis Juščius, CEO of AUGA group, the new tech­nol­o­gy, on which AUGA M1 is based, will help to cre­ate a new food pro­duc­tion mod­el on a glob­al scale and reduce the envi­ron­men­tal impact of agriculture.

“We are ready to pro­vide con­sumers around the world with food at no cost to nature. By eat­ing such food, peo­ple them­selves will make a pos­i­tive impact on cli­mate change dai­ly. And we are sure that more and more peo­ple want to live like this.”

- Kęs­tutis Juščius 

“Three years ago, when we first cal­cu­lat­ed our emis­sions, we saw that as much as 30 per­cent of them come from the use of fos­sil fuels on farms. There were sim­ply no solu­tions to change it,” Juščius con­tin­ued. “That is why we have tak­en the lead in devel­op­ing tech­nolo­gies that will allow us to cre­ate a new stan­dard for sus­tain­able agri­cul­ture and dras­ti­cal­ly reduce pol­lu­tion through­out the food val­ue chain. The first result of this work is a bio­methane and elec­tric tractor.”

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The choice of bio­methane as an alter­na­tive fuel was not acci­den­tal, as it is one of the green­est types of bio­fu­el. Methane, col­lect­ed from live­stock waste and con­vert­ed to bio­methane, off­sets more emis­sions per unit of ener­gy in its pro­duc­tion and use cycle than it emits.

“Our inven­tion makes it pos­si­ble to cre­ate a wide range of trac­tor appli­ca­tions and make it acces­si­ble to all farm­ers who want to work sus­tain­ably. We are not devel­op­ing tech­nol­o­gy just to solve our own emis­sions and deliv­er on the promise of becom­ing a CO2-neu­tral com­pa­ny by 2030. Our goal is big­ger — we will strive to make this trac­tor and oth­er tech­nolo­gies that are still being devel­oped avail­able to farm­ers all over the world and help solve the glob­al prob­lem of pol­lu­tion in the agri­cul­tur­al sec­tor,” said Juščius.

Tackling long-standing innovation barriers

The hybrid AUGA M1 trac­tor solves two main obsta­cles that have so far hin­dered the preva­lence of bio­methane-pow­ered trac­tors: the inef­fi­cient refu­el­ing process and under­de­vel­oped refu­el­ing sta­tion infra­struc­ture. The lat­ter was solved by offer­ing quick and con­ve­nient gas car­tridge replace­ment, how­ev­er, Juščius dove deep­er when explain­ing the changes in the refu­el­ing process.

“Our team of engi­neers has found solu­tions to solve the prob­lem of refu­el­ing and ensure unin­ter­rupt­ed oper­a­tion of the trac­tor through­out the work­ing day. Cur­rent­ly, bio­methane-pow­ered trac­tors are able to oper­ate for only 2–4 hours because the gas cylin­ders do not phys­i­cal­ly fit into the trac­tor struc­ture. How­ev­er, farm­ers need agri­cul­tur­al machin­ery that can work for 12 hours or more. AUGA group under­stands this per­fect­ly and has cre­at­ed a solu­tion,” CEO explained. 

Building an eco-aware community with sustainable tech

Fol­low­ing the glob­al strat­e­gy of agri­cul­tur­al tech­nolo­gies (AgTech), Juščius not­ed that more solu­tions, which will help ensure the sus­tain­abil­i­ty of the entire food chain, will be pre­sent­ed in the near future. Cur­rent­ly, the company’s experts are devel­op­ing “green” tech­nol­o­gy that will elim­i­nate car­bon emis­sions from the soil and the diges­tive process of cattle.

“Our inno­va­tions will bring togeth­er a glob­al com­mu­ni­ty of respon­si­ble con­sumers, smart farm­ers, and bold investors. It will ensure real change by cre­at­ing an envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­ly food sup­ply chain, and will allow imple­ment­ing the vision of AUGA group – to become syn­ony­mous with sus­tain­able food and lifestyle,” said Juščius.

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