Root vegetables, tubers, and bulbs
Root vegetables, tubers, and bulbs—such as potatoes, carrots, and onions—require efficient water management, fertilization, and pest control to ensure high yields and quality. With VEGGA, manage your farm digitally, optimize irrigation and fertigation, and make quick decisions based on reliable data.
Featured Crops
Potato
Carrot
Onion
Garlic
Leek
Key Challenges for Root, Tuber, and Bulb Vegetables
Optimize water use
to improve the yield, size, and quality of vegetables.
Manage Fertilizers Effectively
by controlling the dosage and timing of application according to the phenological development of each crop.
Control of agricultural inputs
used on the farm, ensuring uniformity and yield.
Preparing for Adverse Climatical Conditions
that could affect crop growth.
Preventing Pests and Diseases
especially in potatoes and onions, to maintain the product’s freshness and quality.
How VEGGA Helps Root Vegetables, Tubers, and Bulbs
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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.
– It allows for the adjustment of water supply through irrigation pulses based on crop needs and the phenological stage.
– Access irrigation reports and historical data, including audits, to validate decisions and improve 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 for irrigation and fertilization needs.
– Monitors climatical conditions in real time, optimizing irrigation, treatments, and planting.
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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 root and bulb vegetable crops to improve yields and fruit size.
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Crop Protection
Anticipate pests and diseases and apply plant protection treatments at the optimal time, minimizing residues, costs, and crop losses.
– Anticipates and assesses the risk of pests and diseases, enabling the efficient application of plant protection treatments.
– Reduces the use of chemicals and ensures healthier, more productive crops, especially potatoes and onions.
Benefits of managing root vegetables, tubers, and bulbs with VEGGA
Greater consistency and product quality
Optimal water and fertilization management improves size, firmness, color, and specific gravity, thereby enhancing the market quality of roots, tubers, and bulbs.
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Optimization of nutritional parameters
VEGGA helps improve key parameters such as sugar content, dry matter, vitamins, and minerals, which are essential for this type of vegetable.
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Improving postharvest quality
Careful handling under controlled conditions enhances preservation and extends shelf life, maintaining quality after harvest.
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Intraplot uniformity and mechanized harvesting
It promotes uniform ripening, which makes it easier to plan the harvest and improves the efficiency of mechanized harvesting.
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Stress and Climate Risk Control
It allows you to adjust irrigation and fertilization based on the plant’s growth stage and environmental conditions, anticipating situations of stress or adverse weather conditions.
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Integrated water and nutrient management
Soil sensors provide insight into the behavior of water and nutrients in the soil profile, help balance water supply with irrigation pulses, and optimize the movement and utilization of fertilizers.
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Operating Profitability
Precise control of water, nutrients (including NPK), and the crop’s growth stage improves key yield and quality parameters, thereby increasing crop productivity and profitability.
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Possible pests and diseases affecting roots, tubers, and bulbs
Onion
Potato
Compatible 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.
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.
