CIGR Proceedings  

Fred Conte,Abbas Ahmadi

The objective of this paper is to introduce a new model, Pearl, designed to evaluate bay sanitation conditions and manage shellfish growing area closures. The Pearl model can be used in one of two modes. In the stand-alone mode, Pearl can perform a multi-... see more

Heinrich Hagel,Christa Hoffmann,Reiner Doluschitz

Construction of the Itaparica dam and reservoir induced changes of the agricultural production systems in the micro-region Itaparica, at the lower-middle São Francisco river basin. Extensive traditional systems were replaced by irrigated fruit and product... see more

Jignesh Patel,Chetan Bhatt

Increased demand of farm productions and depleting natural resources compelled the agriculturecommunity to enhance the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in variousfarming processes. Agricultural Decision Support System (DSS) proved use... see more

Xiang Mao,Jiannong Xin

The rapid growth of mobile usage in the world has created many opportunities to leverage the ubiquity of mobile network. Mobile applications have gained momentum in many sectors including agriculture. However, development of mobile apps is still facing ma... see more

Vadim Tsukor

Steering agricultural machinery during the harvest in fields is a tedious task for drivers. Automated guidance of the machinery will not only reduce driver fatigue but also increase productivity and safety of the harvesting operation. The existing mechani... see more

Walter Mayer

During the last years new technologies occurred - some will help agriculture a lot. Main tasks to make them profitable for sustainable resource management is technology assessment based on detailed know how of a country’s situation and needs, further tech... see more

Miklós Herdon,Róbert Szilágyi,László Várallyai

The University of Debrecen in Hungary has already 30 years’ experience in computing,informatics training in agriculture. The education programs in agri-informatics have beencontinuously changed in various accredited training programs. The different levels... see more

Miklós Herdon,Charles Burriel,János Tamás,László Várallyai,Péter Lengyel,János Pancsira

The aim of the AgroFE project is to play an important role in Agro-forestry trainings. Depending on the European countries, states or professional organizations and training actors try to reintroduce Agro forestry in the course of training and qualificati... see more

Éva Lehoczky,János Tamás,Péter Riczu,Miklós Herdon

It is well known that weeds compete with the cultivated plant for the nutrient and water, thus weed coverage could a great influence on the profitability of production. Accordingly, to define the distribution of weed patches is a very important task in pr... see more

János Tamás,Éva Bozsik,Péter Riczu,Bernadett Gálya,Miklós Herdon,Charles Burriel,Herman Heilmeier

Agroforestry systems are part of the history of the European Union rural landscapes, but the regional increase of size of agricultural parcels had a significant effect on European landuse in the 20th century, thereby it has radically reduced the coverage ... see more

Kei Tanaka,Takuji Kiura

Most of the countries in the Asian monsoon region are agricultural areas, and the impact of climate change on this region is very significant. Rainfed areas in particular are very vulnerable to extreme weather events such as floods and droughts. Moreover,... see more

Manuel Hidalgo,Federico Sancho

IICA recognizes that information management and knowledge sharing are fundamental for improving agriculture and rural life in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Both information and knowledge are essential in decision making, research... see more

Luis Alexander Calvo-Valverde,Mauricio Guzmán-Quesada,José Antonio Guzmán-Álvarez

One issue that has occupied the attention of humanity is the production of food and view it from several perspectives: the quality of the seed, the production process, diseases that affect productivity, the effect of climate and location, in example. As a... see more

Pete Vergot III1,,Heather Kent,Lawrence Scott Jackson

Since the beginning of Extension a century ago, Extension faculty have used the latest technology and research to meet clientele needs. Today, Extension Faculty have numerous tools at their fingertips to help them reach new audiences and save time. In fac... see more

Margaret Sraku-Lartey

This paper makes a case for harnessing indigenous knowledge (IK) for sustainable national development in Ghana. IK is the local knowledge that is unique to a given culture or society. It is the basis for local-level decision-making in agriculture, health ... see more

Jens Peter Hansen,Lizzie Melby Jespersen,Allan Leck Jensen,Kirsten Holst,Camilla Mathiesen,Gianluca Brunori,Niels Halberg,Ilse Ankjær Rasmussen

Innovation occurs as a result of the creativity and interplay between actors combining new and/orexisting (tacit) knowledge. As input to a report on agricultural knowledge and innovationsystems (EU SCAR, 2013), we analyzed the use of social media and othe... see more

Stanley Best,Lorenzo León,Rodrigo Quintana

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Graciela Romero Martinez,José Antonio Guzmán

As a need, and in order to generate inputs for the Coffee Sector, the Costa Rica CoffeeInstitute, ICAFE, proposes and fosters a Costa Rica coffee coverage updating as a tool forplanning and development in the area of research.Therefore, it is of utmost im... see more

Randall Chinchilla,Ricardo Escobar

Guarantying the quality and genetic purity of hybrid oil palm seeds requires precision, control, traceability and constant validation of many processes; both in the field (identifying mother palms and pollen sources, pollination, identification of bunches... see more

Rubén Calderón,Oscar Castro,Felipe Arauz,Javier Bonatti

Infrared thermography can be used to detect water-stress induced temperature changes inplants. Bacterial wilt, a destructive disease of tomato caused by Ralstonia solanacearum,induces water stress in the host, leading to wilt and plant death. Fifty plants... see more

Til Feike,Heinrich Hagel,Reiner Doluschitz,Yusuyunjiang Mamitimin

The extremely arid climate of the Tarim Basin in Northwestern China offers ideal production conditions for cotton, making the region one of the nation’s major cotton production bases. However, in the last decades the overuse of water resources for agricul... see more

Juan Manuel Soares de Lima

Uruguay is one of the major beef and sheep meat exporters countries. Its economy is highly dependent on livestock production, and cow-calf systems (CCS) are mainly carried out by small farmers under grazing conditions and consequently under the influence ... see more

Daniela Muñoz Alvarado,Laura Solera Thomas,Carlos Angulo Araya,José Joaquín Brenes Ramírez,José Manuel Brenes Ramírez,Gabriel Brenes Víquez,Sonia Gómez Acuña,Fausto Víquez Redondo

This study aims to analyze the phenomenon of the digital divide in the community of Tierra Blanca and present the case of the Agricultural Information Service of Tierra Blanca as a solution to reduce the digital divide in this farming community. Based on ... see more

Christa Hoffmann,Erick Cantu,Matthias Nachtmann,Reiner Doluschitz

The use of modern technologies in agriculture, such as sensors or farm management systems, generates a growing number of data on farms worldwide. These technologies as well as the mentioned big data from it, have high potentials for several scopes of appl... see more

Alberto José López López,Carlos Benavides León

This study presents an application to simulate the internal temperature and relative humidity of a greenhouse, which provides a simple way to predict crop environmental requirements. Programming was developed in a worksheet with subroutines based on a ste... see more

Xia Jiang,Yifan Cai,Simon Yang,Gauri Mittal

Near-Infrared spectroscopy (NIR) is a fast and non-destructive method to identify orange growingareas. In this paper, a principal component analysis (PCA) approach was used to obtain the featuresof orange NIR spectra by reducing the divisions in the analy... see more

Jens Peter Hansen,Jens Bligaard,Nicolai Fog Hansen,Annette Hørning

FarmTracking® aims to provide the farmer with a unique opportunity for receiving practiceaimedinformation and decision support delivered at the right place at the right time.FarmTracking is a concept and a system that utilizes the capabilities of the smar... see more

Nan Ha,Til Feike,Heinrich Hagel,Enno Bahrs

There is an increasing need to promote more environmentally sustainable agriculture and small-scaled farm business in the NCP. This paper adopts two key environmental indicators to improve scientific understanding of environmental impact of summer maize a... see more

Walter Silva-Araya

Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (JBNERR) is located at the south eastern coast of Puerto Rico. The reserve includes subtropical forests, mangrove forests, coral reefs, seagrass beds, salt and mud flats, lagoons and freshwater wetlands. Mar N... see more

Álvaro Sánchez Chinchilla,Alejandra Rojas González

The Arenal-Tempisque irrigation district is located in the lower part of the Tempisque and Bebedero basins. It is the major irrigation project of Costa Rica (59960 ha) and is divided into eight sub-districts. It has extensive agricultural activity (sugarc... see more

José Antonio Guzmán-Alvarez,Mauricio Guzmán Quesada

The Costa Rican banana industry is mainly located in the Caribbean basin, which gives good weather and soil conditions for intensive production for export purposes. However, as is characteristic of tropical zones during the year, occur considerable variat... see more

Matías Adrián Chaves Herrera,Alejandra Rojas González,José Pablo Rojas,José Francisco Aguilar Pereira

During the last few years, the expansion of urban cover in the Quebrada Seca-Bermudez watershed has caused a series of floods that have damaged houses, bridges and other important infrastructure of the area. Hence local governments need a more precise des... see more