ISHS Acta Horticulturae 659: VII International Symposium on Protected Cultivation in Mild Winter Climates: Production, Pest Management and Global Competition
UTILIZATION OF AGROCLIMATIC DATA FOR DAILY AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT FOR MAJOR CROPS (AG-AGENDA) IN EGYPT |
| Authors: | S.M. Abol-Maatey, M.A. Medany, A.F. Abou-Hadid |
| Abstract:
Agricultural practices used to be implemented based on timely fixed operations. This included selection of crops, cultivars, sowing dates, field preparation, trees training and pruning, irrigation, fertilization, and pest and disease control. Although such fixed agenda was useful for centuries in Egypt as a traditional system, it doesn't consider variations such as in daily weather, new crops, new pests, and new irrigation and fertilization systems. Therfore, adaption of the current information technologies in the fields of automatic real-time weather stattions, computer facilities, internet availability, as well as the available wealth of information, was a logical avenue. This work aims at introducing the basic structure of the new agricultural agenda (AG_AGENDA®). It is a computer tool that embraces crop, cultivar, planting date, daily crop production operations from planting to harvesting including weed, pest and disease control, irrigation requirements, fertilizer requirement according to the source of fertilizer. In addition, it includes details for field preparation, videos for fruit trees pruning, pictures of most prevailing weeds and methods to control, crop characteristics and expected yield, recommendations for the suitability of cultivars to a given region, scientific and general information for many definitions as well as regular and detailed maintenance of irrigation system. Detailed description of the flow charts of the processes are included. A step-by-step print screens are presented from the start of input till the recommended operation of the day. | |
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