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Volume no. 2 | 2017
Issue no. 1


Title
DESIGN OF A CROP MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
Author
Engr. Jermhel M. Solis, REE, MEng
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Abstract
This research project presents on the development of crop management and monitoring system through the aid of technology which will be of great help to farmers and especially to those who own vast areas of agricultural fields. The study used the descriptive and developmental methods in planning and conceptualizing the project. The research used this method in order to gather data that were needed to develop the system. This method also helped summarize and present the gathered data to provide accurate and useful information. The system calculates the recommended horsepower (hp) rating of AC water pump per area, considering the type of soil and proper moisture needed of the crop. Moreover, it computes for the electrical load schedule, including the proper circuit breaker to be used per pump and the appropriate wire type and size. The computations made will be exported to an Adobe pdf file (.pdf) which would therefore be ready for printing. In addition to that, the system recommends the proper spacing between crops and the number of seeds to be planted per area to assure that the crops would not suffer from malnutrition. As for the monitoring part, the system provides a watering and fertilizing schedule depending on the type of soil, the proper nutrition needed by the crop, and the moisture content of the soil. The designed software system can display graphical information which is considered very useful to the farmer or user as a monitoring aid for crop growing. Furthermore, the system software can also compute the number of total seeds and total number of digs to the given land plot. Through the software development using the useful data and information from UP Los Baños-Bureau of Plant Industry through the Office of the City Veterinarian and Agricultural Services (OCVAS), the common problems of the farmers in growing their crops may be alleviated.
Keywords
Crop; horsepower; agriculture; pdf; fertilization; farmers
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