Truly, it takes a lot of effort and engineering know-how plus experience to undergo an irrigation project like this! Well done! What were your most difficult challenges during the course of your work @manuelmilano?
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Define the water requirement of plots. Projecting a properly functioning irrigation system is a complex process, typical of agronomes and agricultural engineers. For this I had to research a lot of related content on the web and talk to my colleagues, the agronomy engineers, to help me define these requirements. Several plant production factors (climate, soil, plant,...) need to be defined in order to obtain the water flow needed to meet the water needs of the crop.
The plant only uses a small part of the water available in its metabolic processes, the rest is lost by the perspiration of the plant itself and by evaporation in the soil, this phenomenon is known as crop evapotranspiration (ETc). The amount of water required for planting should be equal to the ETc thus compensating for such losses.
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Definir el requerimiento de agua de las parcelas. Proyectar un sistema de riego que funcione correctamente es un proceso complejo, propia de agrónomos y de ingenieros agrícolas. Para esto debí investigar mucho contenido relacionado en la web y conversar con mis colegas, los ingenieros agrónomos, que me ayudaran a definir estos requerimientos. Se necesitan definir varios factores de producción vegetal (clima, suelo, planta,…) para poder obtener el caudal de agua necesario para cubrir las necesidades hídricas del cultivo.
La planta solo utiliza una pequeña parte del agua disponible en sus procesos metabólicos, el resto se pierde por la transpiración del propio vegetal y por evaporación en el suelo, este fenómeno se le conoce como evapotranspiración del cultivo (ETc). La cantidad de agua necesaria para la plantación deberá ser igual a la ETc permitiendo así compensar dichas pérdidas.
Thank you @manuelmilano for enlightening us on your project challenges! Calculating the water requirements of the plots is a technical process that your team is surely capable of handling and solving. All the success to your project!
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That's right, at first it was complicated but now that we know how to define those values, we give better results. Thank you for the support you give to my posts.
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Así es, al principio fue complicado pero ahora que sabemos cómo definir esos valores, damos mejores resultados. Gracias por el apoyo que da a mis publicaciones.