Smart farming tech offers sprout of hope in Greece

Using real-time data recorded by a weather station, a farmer can analyse and correlate the impact of weather conditions on crops. — AFP Relaxnews

Eyes glued to his mobile phone, farmer Sotiris Mournos pores over the latest microclimate and humidity data about his fields on the plain of Imathia in northern Greece.

The high-tech farming techniques he uses are making slow progress in Greece's tradition-bound and struggling agricultural sector, but growers like him see them as key to their future.