An Automated System for Irrigation Control in Containerized Ornamental Crop Production

Author(s):  
Roberts B ◽  
Schnipke D ◽  
van Iersel M
Author(s):  
D. Hanitha ◽  
B. Anusha ◽  
M. Durga Prakash

In many parts of the world rainfalls are inadequate to meet agricultural needs of farmers. It thus becomes imperative to use an irrigation system that meets the moisture needs of plants in order to increase food crop production. The system described here monitors the moisture and pesticide control needs of crops. Irrigation control is monitored through suitable moisture sensors and automatically pumps water when the need arises through FPGA control logic thus requiring minimal human interventions. We can also use this system for liquid pesticide supply through the selection. Thus, we achieve the efficient supply of water and pesticide as needed by plants and conserve quantity, energy and time. In this paper, the proposed system is designed using Verilog and implemented on FPGA. The system operation is also explained in DSCH (Digital Schematic) software. The system is very simple to operate and ideally suits the irrigation and pesticide need for green houses as well as farms.


10.12737/3799 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Гайнутдинов ◽  
Ilgizar Gaynutdinov

As we know, the level of organization and efficiency of agricultural production depends on provision of highly qualified specialists. Nowadays, we oversee a shortage of qualified personnel in the agribusiness of the Republic of Tatarstan. Increasing the agricultural products output, on the one hand, and lack of managerial staff in the agricultural enterprises, on the other hand, cause increasing the loading on industry experts, which drastically reduces their motivation to work and efficiency of industrial process control. All this leads to a decrease in efficiency of agricultural production. Studies show, that agribusiness personnel security system depends on their training and retraining in the higher educational institutions, on focused work of personnel services at various levels, on the level of wages, on satisfaction of specialists in social and economic conditions of labor, on output and load to one specialist. Agricultural enterprises do not use standard method for determining the needs of industry professionals. According to nominally - standard method in 2012, the plant industry needed in 1533 agronomists, but according to the information of personnel department of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic only 634 agronomists worked in the Republic, that was 41.3% of the estimated quantity. This has led to an expansion of the load on a single specialist, which reduced the efficiency of management, timely execution of processes for organizational reasons and low yields. The loss of crop production averaged in thе Republic was 648 863.600 rubles, that is equivalent to 119 276.3 tons of grain. The shortage of highly qualified personnel in rural areas, their low fixability, degradation qualitative and quantitative human capacity can be eliminated by the development and adoption at the federal and regional levels the targeted program of agribusiness staffing and develop guidelines and criteria for personnel policy. Social and economic activities, that promote security personnel include: material incentives increase, improvement of living conditions, the introduction of new forms of work organization, compliance labor intensity, professional and qualitative promotion of workers. The studies have shown that: an objective approach at making appointments to executive positions; use of personnel reserve; introduction of innovative technologies into the production; improvement of specialists remuneration systems; creation of a single automated system of personnel monitoring in agribusiness; improvement living conditions and higher wages of specialists - are the main measures, facilitating to consolidation of professionals in rural areas. All these measures will have maximum impact and benefit only in joint implementation by the owners of agricultural enterprises and government agribusiness agencies.


Author(s):  
D. A. Matveenko ◽  
V. V. Yakushev ◽  
V. P. Yakushev

The importance of development of a regional network center for information support of the solution processes, the implementation support of precision agriculture technologies and their transfer to crop production producers – the users of the network center has considered in the paper. Traditional approaches to obtaining information and its transfer to consumers do not correspond to the required level of high-precision technology. It is necessary to take into account within-field spatial variability of indicators that determine the growth and development of the crops as well as the predicted crop yield. The development of new perfect methodological and instrumental framework of the information support of innovative technologies is required for this purpose. It is necessary to develop mobile and stationary tools of conjugate ground and remote monitoring of soil and climatic conditions, new methods of estimation the spatial variability of the agro-ecological state of crops and their habitats with detecting boundaries of the within-field variability of the relevant indicators. This article discusses the structure and the target organization scheme of the Information Center with various types of users. Authors propose to use the prototype of the automated system for the development and support of agro-technological decision making with the integrated GIS-AFI geo-information module created in the Agrophysical Research Institute.


1974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter H. Henry ◽  
Roy A. Turner ◽  
Robert B. Matthie

EDIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (6) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Hai Liu ◽  
Guodong Liu

Asian vegetable crops are rapidly expanding in Florida in the last decade due to their health benefits combined with their high profitability. These crops can help increase vegetable growers’ income and diversify Florida’s crop production, and they are new to most Floridians. This new 5-page article provides a general overview of bok choy for vegetable growers, crop consultants, certified crop advisors, Extension agents, and graduate students. Written by Hai Liu and Guodong Liu and published by the UF/IFAS Horticultural Sciences Department.https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/hs1337


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