Multiplatform application for precision irrigation scheduling in strawberries

Perea, Rafael González; García, I. Fernández; Arroyo, M. Martín; Díaz, J.A. Rodríguez; Poyato, Emilio Camacho; Montesinos, Philippe

doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2016.07.017

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“…Many of the peer-reviewed reports on apps related to sustainable agriculture or agricultural efficiency consist of technical descriptions and case studies for individual software programs, primarily for sensors (Wu et al 2016), Internet-ofthings (Jayaraman et al 2016;Krintz et al 2016;González Perea et al 2017), GPS and/or GIS (De Filippis et al 2013Yu et al 2017), marketing (Sevenster et al 2014;Aker 2016;Nghiem et al 2016), or agronomic reference (Delgado et al 2013;Schröer-Merker et al 2016). Many Web of Science citations are from conference proceedings and present concepts for use of apps in agriculture rather than available and functioning apps, indicating that the topic of apps in agriculture is both recent and of broadly growing interest.…”

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State of apps targeting management for sustainability of agricultural landscapes. A review

Eichler

Dale

2019

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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The triple-bottom-line approach to sustainability in agriculture requires multi-and inter-disciplinary expertise and remains a major design and implementation challenge. Tools are needed to link extension agents, development workers, farmers, and other agriculture decision-makers to information related to practices that improve sustainability across agricultural landscapes. The digital age has brought many new cloud-based and mobile device-accessible software applications (apps) targeted at farmers and others in the agriculture sector; however, the effectiveness of these tools for advancing sustainability goals is unknown. Here, we review apps for agriculture in order to identify gaps in information provisioning and sharing for tools that connect decisionmakers to knowledge in support of sustainable agricultural landscapes. The major findings are (1) Agricultural apps can be categorized as supporting regulatory compliance, equipment optimization, farming simulator games, information management, agronomic reference information, product tracking, pest identification, emissions accounting, or benchmarks for marketing claims.(2) Many apps are developed to link specific products for single solutions, such as GPS-guided crop implementation or sensors within Internet-of-things connectivity. (3) While pilots, prototypes, and case studies are available in both Apple and Android digital markets, public mobile apps to improve multidirectional agriculture knowledge exchange are limited and poorly documented. (4) There remains a need for apps emphasizing knowledge exchange and resource discovery, rather than simply information delivery, to help farmers identify evidence-based practices that improve indicators of sustainability. (5) Development of a digital decision support tool requires early and ongoing interactions with targeted end users to clarify app performance objectives and social networking preferences, ensure reliability of scientific input and business management plans, and optimize the user experience.

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State of apps targeting management for sustainability of agricultural landscapes. A review

Eichler

Dale

2019

Agron. Sustain. Dev.

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“…The significant development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) has also encouraged the application of these strategies. For instance, the authors of Reference [6] developed a mobile and desktop application for farmers (IrriFresa App) which incorporated the precision irrigation principles for strawberry crop. Its use in commercial farms led to significant water savings which ranged from 11% to 33%.…”

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REUTIVAR: Model for Precision Fertigation Scheduling for Olive Orchards Using Reclaimed Water

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García

Perea

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Olive orchard is the most representative and iconic crop in Andalusia (Southern Spain). It is also considered one of the major economic activities of this region. However, due to its extensive growing area, olive orchard is also the most water-demanding crop in the Guadalquivir River Basin. In addition, its fertilization is commonly imprecise, which causes over-fertilization, especially nitrogen. This leads to pollution problems in both soil and water, threating the environment and the system sustainability. This concern is further exacerbated by the use of reclaimed water to irrigate since water is already a nutrient carrier. In this work, a model which determines the real-time irrigation and fertilization scheduling for olive orchard, applying treated wastewater, has been developed. The precision fertigation model considers weather information, both historical and forecast data, soil characteristics, hydraulic characteristics of the system, water allocation, tree nutrient status, and irrigation water quality. As a result, daily information about irrigation time and fertilizer quantity, considering the most susceptible crop stage, is provided. The proposed model showed that by using treated wastewater, additional fertilization was not required, leading to significant environmental benefits but also benefits in the total farm financial costs.

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“…The challenge for the next decades will be how to feed ever more people with ever less water resources. The management of irrigation systems is, in most cases, based on the farmer's experience instead of rational basis (use of agro-climatic data) [1,2]). The inefficiencies detected in the irrigation process [3,4] have driven the development of tools to facilitate farmers the irrigation scheduling.…”

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On the Use of Decision-Support Tools for Improved Irrigation Management: AquaCrop-Based Applications

Wellens¹,

Raes²,

Tychon³

2017

Current Perspective on Irrigation and Drainage

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Feeding more people with less water is putting efficient irrigation practices worldwide high on the agendas. As a reaction, over the last decades, numerous irrigation decisionsupport tools have been developed. For several reasons, the gap between farmer and modeler remained in most cases too large. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to alleviate the encountered adoption limitations with AquaCrop and its stand-alone AquaCrop plug-in. This simple and robust fieldcrop-water balance has been successfully tested for a wide range of crops and regions, and its database is still expanding through worldwide contributions. The present chapter describes how AquaCrop can help irrigation advisory services draft efficient irrigation calendars that are easily applicable and adoptable: either by the elaboration of site-specific irrigation schedule calendars in chart format when the user has no access to the needed data or by the integration of its plug-in in a server/client ICT application offering centralized data management. As for the irrigation charts, studies prove 10-30% water savings, while maintaining yield and requiring minimum data. The server/client application offers an all-in advice tool, including real-time irrigation advice and yield forecasts. No adoption assessments have yet been carried out, but several ongoing pilot studies are promising.

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Multiplatform application for precision irrigation scheduling in strawberries

Cited by 36 publications

References 7 publications

State of apps targeting management for sustainability of agricultural landscapes. A review

State of apps targeting management for sustainability of agricultural landscapes. A review

REUTIVAR: Model for Precision Fertigation Scheduling for Olive Orchards Using Reclaimed Water

On the Use of Decision-Support Tools for Improved Irrigation Management: AquaCrop-Based Applications

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