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Optimization of the irrigation management by radio systems in the region of the Knoblauchsland
Project
Project code: keine Angabe
Contract period: 01.11.2011
- 31.10.2013
Budget: 224,500 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
To realize the demanding yields and qualities in the intense vegetable gardening, a demand-actuated nutrition supply with simultaneously optimal soil moisture is inevitable. This aim can be reached by giving a certain amount of additional water based on objective criteria to a specific plant stand. The steady control of the soil moisture and the activation and deactivation of valves is connected to a huge effort of time and labour especially for many and widely separated fields. In the operational everyday stress the accurate irrigation control is frequently neglected. Irrigation is still commonly done based on experiences that can lead to losses in yield and quality. Within the research project “Optimization of the irrigation management by radio systems in the region of the Knoblauchsland” a new, radio-based irrigation management system is developed in cooperation with the company Agrarsystem GmbH. The goal of this research project is to offer growers a reliable opportunity to steer and control irrigation systems without the need of being in the field. The automatically switching of magnetic valves at given times considering the soil moisture disburdens the vegetable gardener. This leads to savings in time and costs. Additionally the single irrigation events are automatically documented.
Section overview
Subjects
- Vegetable Gardening
Funding programme
Excutive institution
LWG - Institute of commercial and recreational horticulture (IEF)
