Leafy vegetables and fruit
Leafy and fruit vegetables, such as lettuce, tomatoes, and peppers, require precise management of water, fertilization, and pest control to maximize productivity and quality. With VEGGA, manage your farm digitally, optimize irrigation and fertigation, and make quick decisions based on reliable data.
Featured Crops
Lettuce
Spinach
Tomato
Bell pepper
Eggplant
Watermelon
Melon
Zucchini
Cucumber
Pumpkin
Swiss chard
Brassicas: broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower
Artichokes
Key Challenges for Leafy and Fruit Vegetables
Optimize water use
to improve the productivity and quality of leaves and fruit by adjusting irrigation based on the crop’s growth stage and type.
Manage Fertilizers Effectively
by controlling the dosage and timing of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium applications to maximize size, color, firmness, and specific gravity, as well as sugar content, acidity, texture, and aroma in fruit vegetables.
Control of agricultural inputs
used on the farm, ensuring consistency within each plot and uniformity at harvest time.
Preventing climatical adverse conditions
including frosts during critical stages of flowering and fruit set, especially in outdoor crops or those grown under netting or in greenhouses in marginal climatical zones.
Reduce the risk of pests and diseases
especially in processing tomatoes and sensitive vegetables, ensuring crop quality and yield.
Optimizing post-harvest quality
extending the shelf life of perishable products through proper cultivation and handling.
How VEGGA Helps Leafy Vegetables and Fruit
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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.
– Balances water supply with irrigation pulses based on crop needs and the crop’s growth stage.
– 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.
– Learn how water behaves in the soil to better plan for irrigation needs and optimize water use.
– Monitors weather conditions in real time to determine irrigation, fertigation, planting, and the activation of protective systems (vents, micro-sprinklers, drainage, mixing of waters) based on climatical risks.
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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 requirements of your vegetable crop to improve yield stability, uniform ripening, and overall yields.
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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.
– Assesses pest and disease risks and enables the efficient application of phytosanitary treatments.
– Reduces the use of chemicals and ensures healthier, more productive crops, improving quality and yield, especially in processing tomatoes and sensitive vegetables.
Benefits of managing leafy vegetables and fruit crops with VEGGA
Improved performance and product quality
Optimal water management and fertilization improve the size, uniformity, color, firmness, and specific gravity of fruits and leaves, as well as sugar content, acidity, pulp texture, and aroma, which are influenced by polyphenols and other compounds.
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Specific quality requirements by vegetable type
In brassicas, it improves color, size, thickness, and compactness of the head; in leafy vegetables, it optimizes color, turgidity, fresh weight, uniformity, and low nitrate content. It also enhances fiber, vitamins, minerals, and bioactive compounds.
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Post-harvest quality and shelf life
Careful handling under controlled conditions extends the shelf life of highly perishable products, maintaining their quality after harvest.
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Intraplot uniformity and harvest planning
It promotes uniform ripening across the field, making it easier to determine the optimal harvest time and preventing fruits from reaching different stages of development.
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Stress and Climate Risk Control
It allows you to predict frosts during flowering and fruit set, enabling you to activate frost protection systems or cover crops when necessary. In nethouse or greenhouse crops, it helps adjust irrigation, ventilation, and micro-sprinkling based on the DPV and weather conditions.
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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 supply through irrigation pulses, and optimizes fertilizer movement and utilization, in addition to managing the mixing of waters and drainage.
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Operating Profitability
Controlling irrigation, nutrients (including NPK), and phenological stages improves key quality parameters in fruits and leaves, thereby increasing productivity, efficiency, and profitability.
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Common pests and diseases of leafy and fruit vegetables
Tomato
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.
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.
