Open AccessThe management and economical aspects of GPS based machine-control and tractor-implement sincronisation
Author(s) -
Ágnes Szolnoki
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
acta agraria debreceniensis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2416-1640
DOI - 10.34101/actaagrar/52/2116
Subject(s) - tractor , precision agriculture , global positioning system , agricultural engineering , investment (military) , agriculture , revenue , agricultural machinery , control (management) , work (physics) , computer science , return on investment , business , operations research , agricultural science , economics , environmental science , mathematics , engineering , telecommunications , production (economics) , automotive engineering , geography , law , macroeconomics , artificial intelligence , archaeology , accounting , political science , mechanical engineering , politics
Precision farming has an array of technological equipment, elements and complete systems which are in themselves suitable to create conditions for efficient farming, to reduce environmental load and to provide farmers with optimal return on their investment.
On the leading edge of my research is to introduce the economic benefits of precision logistic optimization with satellite navigation in wheat and maize harvesting. My hypothesis, claiming that a well-organized system can increase the number of working days by 4 days per harvesting season in maize, and 2 days in wheat crop. If the farmer makes contract works for harvesting it means for him 2 or 4 days extra work by using the precision farming technologies with satellite communication system. Overall, as pertains to wheat and maize harvest seasons, yearly revenues can be increased by 7 760 000 HUF. I would like to introduce that the precision technologies increase combine costs by merely 5.4% which can be return in the first year of using.