{"id":11638,"date":"2017-12-01T17:18:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T16:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itk.fr\/company\/research-and-development-projects\/orchards\/"},"modified":"2022-06-10T11:39:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T09:39:06","slug":"vintel-orchards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itk.fr\/en\/research-and-development-projects\/vintel-orchards\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintel Orchards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A decision support tool for irrigation management of your orchards trees.<\/h2>\n<\/div>Crop modelling<\/a>Almonds<\/a>Peach<\/a>Apricot<\/a>Olive tree<\/a>Walnut<\/a>Irrigation management<\/a><\/div><\/div>
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Description<\/h4>\n<\/div>

Optimal irrigation of fruit and nut trees is essential to maximize yield and optimize fruit quality. To apply the optimal irrigation, growers must consider multiple factors related to the crop, soil, irrigation system, production objective, and weather forecasts. Growers need to make decisions every week for multiple fields with different characteristics, which makes irrigation management is extremely complex and time-consuming. The decision-making process can be facilitated by using the Vintel Orchards\u00ae mobile application developed by itk. Vintel Orchards\u00ae<\/strong> is an application enabling growers to easily enter their field characteristics, compare their irrigation practices to optimal irrigation and receive alerts when the fields are not optimally irrigated.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Progress<\/h4>\n<\/div>

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Testing phase by growers underway<\/h6><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Objectives<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>

The main objectives of this project are to develop user-friendly mobile applications for scheduling irrigation for multiple crops based on water demand and weather forecasts, to facilitate deficit irrigation practices in orchards, and provide recommendations for optimal irrigation<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Development of a DST for growers<\/strong><\/p>\n

to facilitate irrigation scheduling across multiple fields<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Accurate calculation of irrigation requirements<\/strong><\/p>\n

to maximize crop yield without wasting water<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Use deficit irrigation practices<\/strong><\/p>\n

to save water and money<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Verify your decisions<\/strong><\/p>\n

by comparing your irrigation practices with optimal irrigation and receive alerts when a field has not received optimal irrigation<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

7-day Irrigation forecast<\/p>\n<\/div>

Water status management according to your production objective<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Future improvements<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>

The application will be improved based on grower\u2019s requirements that could be:<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Improve irrigation management<\/h4>\n

by taking into account canopy variability in the orchard using satellite images<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Implement field information<\/strong><\/p>\n

from flow meters: soil moisture sensors and pressure chamber<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Manage the irrigation of other crops<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Nitrogen Management<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

Partners<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>

The application was developed by itk in collaboration with irrigation experts from UC Davis in California. The project was partially funded by the BPI project.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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