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My name is Mario Petkovski. I come from AgFutura Technologies from North Macedonia. I'm an agronomist and digital agriculture specialist. AgFutura Technologies is an advisory company that utilises digital and precision agricultural technologies for the improvement of the decision-making process of the farmers that will ultimately lead to the improvement of the food production in rural areas. AgFutura Technologies is established 2016, with its main mission to encourage the utilisation of digital agriculture technologies in rural areas. With the project ICAERUS and the Use Case 5, the rural logistics, we are going to be able to showcase the benefits of utilisation of drone technologies, which is a great part of the advisory process that we are doing to encourage farmers to showcase them that it's good to use and can improve their livelihood in rural areas. VASSILIS POLYCHRONOS: Use Case 5 in the ICAERUS project is a use case that deals with what we call rural logistics. It's like a kind of a drone delivery system we will test and develop throughout this project. It's not like the last mile thing that it's-- everybody is talking about in courier services. It's something more bigger, meaning that what we try to do is that we try to deliver products to remote areas, areas that they are hard to reach because of bad road connectivity, because of bad weather, or because it's not feasible. So what we will try to do is to deliver goods using three different types of drones, mainly based on the multirotor technology. It's kind of a helicopter, but with more than two rotors than a typical helicopter. So we're going to test multirotor systems with four rotors. We're going to test a helicopter system. And also we're going to test a fixed-wing system, which is like an airplane. But it has-- it's hybrid, meaning that it can take off and land vertically and flies like an aeroplane-- different shapes, different characteristics, different capacity in terms of weight it can carry, distances that it can cover. We will try to mix them all together to end up to some meaningful conclusion-- what-- answering the question, what is best for what?