Hidrosense participates in project on protected cultivation

Hidrosense is participating in a project on protected cultivation of three tomato species in Barão Geraldo, district of Campinas, called Projeto Mais. The company is responsible for irrigation equipment and monitoring.

The structure set up by the company allows for the efficient union of automated irrigation and nutrition (fertigation), which, together with the use of solution extractors, monitor soil factors in real time. These results have a direct effect on plant development, such as water availability at the root and electrical conductivity and soil pH.

The data is available on the web and can be accessed at any time by project technicians who can intervene and program corrections in fertigation or crop management, anticipating or preventing possible problems. The rational use of water and energy, the optimization of labor and the precision that cultivation in substrate requires in fertigation, can only be achieved with the combined use of an Autonomous Irrigation Control System MRI with Soil Solution Extractors .

The equipment used by Hidrosense is the only one on the market capable of measuring the unit in the subtract (water tension), in vases for flower production or in tray cells for growing vegetable seedlings. It is also the only intelligent automated irrigation controller, where irrigation is not defined by simple time schedulers, but by the plants' real need for water demand.

“We believe that the project, which has been underway for almost a year, will become a reference as a model of sustainable management. The complete monitoring of all plant management elements and inputs and the sharing of knowledge generated are factors that will take protected cultivation to a new level of excellence”, reveals Enison Pozzani, director of Hidrosense.

The More Project

The Mais Project is an advance in the dissemination of knowledge about protected cultivation, a method still little used in Brazil. The project was created to be a model of efficiency and experimentation, to become a source of knowledge and an agent that facilitates access to information, management techniques and equipment for farmers, placing in a single structure the most efficient and economically viable aspects of cultivation. protected.

There are six production greenhouses measuring 1.380m² each and the project has a 4 million liter rainwater collection reservoir for irrigation. In these greenhouses, three species of tomatoes were planted – Italian, round and specialty (cocktail).