Precision farming is sweeping Europe!

Precision farming is sweeping Europe!

Precision agriculture sweep Europe

The peasants usually publish regular amount of seeds and fertilizer and water on their fields plowed, but the new technique of farming techniques developed in the US city of Minnesota called precision agriculture (precision agriculture), use of new technologies in the calculation of the differences in the layers of surface soils for agricultural field, this new mechanism will allow the peasants to amend the amount of seed, fertilizer and water in a manner suited to these differences.

In spite of the fact that the method is already approved in Europe since a little while, however, a French company called Jiokarta (Geocarta) already invented a system to make the method more accurate.

Jars which carries measuring different dimensions of the field

The headquarters of the company that was able to invent system gives a three-dimensional map of the layers of soil agricultural field to be applied in Paris, but this map, the system carried by tractor over the field to measure the electrical resistance of the soil at different depths.

Michael Dabas scientific director of the company describes this method as «unique way» to allow Jiokarta colored maps that show three-dimensional images.

The company has work relationship between the electrical resistance of the soil and agricultural winning, and use the new system several poles to pass electric current in the soil at the same time to measure the difference in voltage between the upper area of ​​the root to the accumulation of water in the lower area, then a specific program to take the electrical resistance data and combines them with other information, as content water, and soil composition, and the proportion of mud, stones and minerals.

Mapping device that uses this system to determine the global site known (GPS) and Doppler radar for detailed measurements of the Earth, and works all of the system to identify the location (system navigation using satellites) and Doppler radar in parallel to take measurements every ten centimeters, then divide the resulting map the agricultural field to administrative regions which can change the amount of seed, fertilizer and irrigation water, note that the areas change every six meters.

The company (which invented the technology at the French National Center for Scientific Research), the experience of the system to 20 farmer Frenchman different, and the peasants connect the data to a computer tied the dashboard in the agricultural tractor, to show the map on the screen in front of them, it is hoped that the company making the peasants are doing measurements themselves and re-measurements to the company that will take over the color show maps and send them over the Internet,

It was a system designed primarily to serve the wheat fields, but can be used for fields of rapeseed and barley also says Dabas, The advantages of precision farming lies in the economic and environmental aspects, they are economical because they used the necessary quantities, already, of seeds and fertilizer and irrigation water for the production of agricultural produce, especially when We want to reap the best harvest, it is clear that the use of less chemicals and the amount of water would be beneficial to the environment.

Dabas, who was working as a researcher at the French Centre mentioned see if precision farming unpopular fast, especially in France, Germany, Britain and the Scandinavian countries.

The company expects to have its product ready to commercialize within a year or two of these countries, which will make the product a global producer makes agriculture more accurate and certainly more profitable and productive.