Development of an automatic irrigation and fertilization system
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FEFTS Specifications
Research project
for Energy efficiency improvement
Suitable for
Precision agriculture
Special type
Fertilize reduction
Agricultural domain
Open-field agriculture
Suitable for
Farmer
Applications
Agricultural field practices
Especially
Irrigation
Type of solution
Software, Hardware, Complete solution
Details
Project`s acronym: OPTIFERT (2011-2013)
Project funding type: EU
Project funding source: FP7
Project coordinator: VEREIN ZUR FORDERUNG DES TECHNOLOGIETRANSFERS AN DER HOCHSCHULE BREMERHAVEN EV
Coordinator location: Germany
Coordinator email / Contact form: ldoyle@ttz-bremerhaven.de
Project status: Finished
Total budget: 1886933.44
Additional info
The main advantages of the OPTIFERT-system application for the European farmers will be:
• It optimises irrigation and fertilisation of the plantation (higher crop production with reduced costs on fertilisation and irrigation = higher efficiency),
• Safes manpower
• It is easy to control, easy to maintain and easy adjustable,
• It allows a strict control and feedback in terms of performance and environmental impact.
OPTIFERT will give also all present users of irrigation systems the opportunity to use their already existing irrigation systems and combine it with the OPTIFERT technology in order to obtain a full competitive, combined, innovative and demand driven irrigation and fertilisation system.
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Assessment
This section contains a brief assessment of the FEFTS described.
There are 3 basic categories: General, Environmental and Socioeconomic assessment.
The purpose of this assessment is to give a quick overview to the potential FEFTS user of its application benefits.
For each question, the Likert scale is used with the following possible answers:
Strongly disagree, Disagree, Neither agree nor disagree (Neutral)/non applicable, Agree, Strongly agree
General
This FEFTS contributes to improve the energy profiles of farming systems:Environmental
The application of this FEFTS directly reduces fossil energy use, in terms of:- general energy savings
- Fertilizer reduction
Socioeconomic
The application of this FEFTS contributes to cost reductions of farming systems:Keep in mind that this assessment is subjective, based on publicly available information.
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