Stone and pome fruits
Stone and pome fruit trees, such as apple, pear, and peach trees, require efficient water management, fertilization, and input control to maximize productivity and fruit quality. With VEGGA, manage your orchards digitally, optimize irrigation and fertigation, and make quick decisions based on reliable data.
Featured Crops
Manzano
Pear tree
Peach tree
Cherry tree
Apricot tree
Plum tree
Quince paste
Key Challenges Facing Stone and Pome Fruit Trees
Optimize water use
to improve fruit productivity and quality.
Manage Fertilizers Effectively
control of fertilizer application based on the fruit’s phenological stage.
Control of agricultural inputs
used on the farm.
Preparing for Adverse Climatical Conditions
such as early frosts or water stress, which can affect fruit development and quality.
How VEGGA Helps Stone and Pome Fruit Trees
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Irrigation Control
Manage and monitor the data from your Agrónic controllers from anywhere. Save time and water, resolve incidences, and ensure your crops get exactly what they need.
– Manages fertigation precisely by programming and monitoring the irrigation system.
– Access irrigation reports and historical data, including audits, to validate decisions and improve water use efficiency.
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Agroclimatic monitoring
Get real-time climate, crop, and soil data based on sensor readings and agroclimatic indices, and make more informed decisions for your farm.
– Understand how water and nutrients behave in the soil to plan irrigation and optimize fertigation.
– Monitors climatical conditions in real time, supporting decisions regarding irrigation, treatments, and frost protection.
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Assisted irrigation
Precision-adjust and automate the irrigation of your crops using smart algorithms based on historical data, sensor readings, and weather forecasts—all without the need for daily monitoring.
– Predict the water needs of your fruit trees to improve yields and fruit size.
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Irrigation Manager
Program and control your farms in a centralized and aggregated manner. Manage water and fertilizer orders while optimizing irrigation based on energy rates and your fertigation plan.
– Optimizes the use of water and fertilizers, manages fertilizer orders, and allows for the bulk scheduling of irrigation units to improve efficiency.
Benefits of managing stone and pome fruit trees with VEGGA
Fruit yield and size
Optimal irrigation and fertilization management improves fruit size, color, sugar content, acidity, and the balance between them, as well as dry matter content, texture, firmness, and aroma, thereby enhancing fruit quality and productivity.
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Sensory quality and post-harvest
Fertigation adjusted according to phenological stages influences aroma, texture, and postharvest storage life, in addition to reducing problems such as cracking in sensitive crops like cherries and apples.
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Intraplot uniformity and harvesting efficiency
VEGGA promotes uniform ripening across trees and plots, allowing for better planning of the optimal harvest time and reducing the number of harvest passes.
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Stress and Climate Risk Control
The system allows users to predict frosts during flowering and fruit set, triggering anti-frost systems to protect flowers and fruit. In net-house crops, controlling the DPV makes it easier to decide when to activate micro-sprinklers to prevent water stress.
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Integrated water and nutrient management
Using soil sensors, VEGGA provides insights into the behavior of water and nutrients in the soil profile, balances water application through irrigation pulses, and optimizes fertilizer movement and utilization.
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Operating Profitability
Controlling the key parameters affecting fruit quality and development allows growers to achieve an optimal balance between yield and quality, thereby increasing the efficiency and profitability of the crop.
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Recommended hardware
Soil water potential sensor
A matric potential sensor that allows for the assessment of actual water availability to the plant and the detection of water stress in crops. At VEGGA, this data helps optimize irrigation programming and complements soil moisture information for more precise water management.
Irrigation meter
An irrigation meter that monitors the volume of water applied and enables users to control water consumption, analyze irrigation pulses, and detect hydraulic anomalies. At VEGGA, this data is integrated with soil and climate sensors to optimize irrigation efficiency and decision-making.
Soil Moisture and EC Sensor
A soil moisture, EC, and temperature sensor that enables integrated monitoring of the water, salinity, and thermal conditions of the root zone. At VEGGA, this data helps optimize irrigation and fertigation, detect risks of salinization, and improve the efficiency of water and fertilizer use.
Pressure transducer
A pressure sensor that monitors water pressure in the irrigation system to ensure correct operation and uniform distribution on the VEGGA platform, detecting anomalies such as leaks, blockages, or drops in pressure, and ensuring the effectiveness of irrigation and frost protection systems.
