Determination of the Applicability of Robotics in Animal Husbandry

Abstract

Robotization in agriculture must be carried out taking into account various factors. Agricultural organizations are in different conditions, therefore, just economic efficiency is not enough to justify the implementation of robotics. Timeliness of the research topic is conditioned by the need to assess the applicability of implementing robotics at the micro level, taking into account various factors, since this issue has not been sufficiently studied. The article proposes a methodology for a comprehensive assessment of the expediency of robotization of agricultural organizations, taking into account the technical, technological, organizational and social factors characterizing a certain production process. It is proposed, to determine the economic efficiency of the robotics implementation at the first stage of such an assessment. Then the expert group determines the average and relative evaluation of the significance of each factor from the proposed ones. The preliminary selection is completed by assigning the ranks of the preference for implementing robotics to workplaces. The methodology for determining the expedience of robotics has been tested in agricultural organizations at workplaces in animal husbandry. Using the methodology will increase the validity of decisions on the implementation of robotics in agricultural organizations.

Morphological and biochemical parameters of cow blood when using chitosan preparations

“…Obtaining it in the conditions of the zone of man-made pollution impact imposes special requirements on manufacturers to ensure the safety of the product. The use of natural feed additives with ion-exchange and adsorbing properties makes it possible to obtain a safe product [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27].…”

The relationship of economic and useful traits in the Ural type cows of the black-and-white breed

“…All over the world, dairy cattle are used to produce milk. Currently, the main population of dairy cattle in the world is represented by animals of the best world breed -Holstein and its crossbreeds, which differ in economic and useful qualities depending on the natural and climatic, ecological and fodder conditions and the gene pool of breed resources of the breeding zone [19][20]. Thus, in the Sverdlovsk region, a large array of holsteinized black-and-white cattle of the Ural type has been created, the improvement of which continues, including through the further use of purebred Holstein bulls-producers of the best lines [21][22][23].…”

Changes in the live weight of cows with age and its impact on their productive qualities

“…In recent years, a related Holstein breed has been used to improve dairy cattle. The widespread, long-term use of the valuable gene pool of the Holstein breed of foreign breeding bulls has led to the creation of a large array of Holstein cattle in various natural-climatic and ecological-forage zones of the country, which also differs by economic and biological features, which is due to the breed resources of cattle in the breeding zone and the country of origin of the breeding bulls involved in crossing [19][20][21]. Thus, in the Sverdlovsk region, the breeding stock of the black-and-white breed of the Ural offspring was inseminated with the seed of bullsproducers of Canadian, Danish and German breeding.…”