BENEFITS REGARDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF AGRICULTURE 4.0 IN THE CURRENT CONTEXT

Agriculture 4.0 is comprised of different already operational or developing technologies such as robotics, nanotechnology, synthetic protein, cellular agriculture, gene editing technology, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and machine learning, which may have pervasive effects on future agriculture and food systems and major transformative potential. This paper presents some considerations regarding the technologies used in agriculture 4.0, namely: cheaper and more accurate sensors and microprocessors, cloud and IoT improvement and the use of radio units for data transmission and analysis and processing of large volumes of data

AUTOMATED DRIP IRRIGATION SYSTEM POWERED BY PHOTOVOLTAIC PANELS USED FOR AGRICULTURAL CROPS

Climate change, water scarcity and higher energy requirements and electric tariff compromises the continuity of the irrigated agriculture. Precision agriculture (PA) or renewable energy sources which are based on communication and information technologies and a large amount of data are key to ensuring this economic activity and guaranteeing food security at the global level. Several works which are based on the use of PA and renewable energy sources have been developed in order to optimize different variables of irrigated agriculture such as irrigation scheduling. In general, 70% of global water consumption goes to agriculture, for crop irrigation. Irrigated agriculture represents 20% of the total cultivated land (global average), but brings 40% of food

INTELLIGENT MONITORING OF DISEASED PLANTS USING DRONES

Plant diseases are one of the grand challenges that face the agriculture sector world-wide. In the United States, crop diseases cause losses of one-third of crop production annually. Despite the importance, crop disease diagnosis is challenging for limited-resources farmers if performed through optical observation of plant leaves’ symptoms. Therefore, there is an urgent need for markedly improved detection, monitoring, and prediction of crop diseases to reduce crop agriculture losses. Advanced imaging technologies can detect such changes, and can, therefore, be used as noninvasive crop monitoring methods. Furthermore, novel methods of treatment precision application are required. Both sensing and actuation technologies can be mounted on equipment moving through fields (e.g., irrigation equipment), on (un)manned driving vehicles, and on small drones

THE IMPACT OF USING EQUIPMENT WITH DIGITAL CONTROL ON MODERN AGRICULTURE 4.0 - REVIEW

Lately, the widespread use and continuous improvement of machine tools has had a significant impact on productivity in the manufacturing industry since the Industrial Revolution. At the beginning of the new era of industrialization, the need to advance machine tools to a new level, which corresponds to the Industry 4.0 concept, must be recognized and addressed. Like the various stages of industrialization, machine tools have also gone through various stages of technological advances, namely Machine Tool 1.0, Machine Tool 2.0 and Machine Tool 3.0. Industry 4.0 advocates for a new generation of machines - Machine Tool 4.0. This paper describes some of the key and desired features of the implementation of intelligent machines such as numerically controlled lathes and milling machine tool centers integrated vertically and horizontally in order to achieve a modern, intelligent, autonomous and safer agriculture

TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RYE CULTIVATED IN THE CONDITIONS OF SANDY SOILS IN SOUTHERN OLTENIA

Rye (Secale cereale L.) is an important crop in Europe, where it occupies about 90% of the world's area cultivated with this cereal (FAOSTAT, 2018), mainly in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. The main research highlights the mechanisms of adaptation of rye culture to climate change, aimed at identifying genotypes that have a good behavior in culture under conditions of abiotic (thermohydric) and biotic stress (pathogens and pests) in order of restoring the production capacity and protection of agroecosystems in the area of sandy soils by promoting in culture some genotypes tolerant to thermohydric stress. In the two experimented years of 2020 and 2021 the obtained results prove the new genotypes promoted on the market had a higher capacity of production than the Control (Suceveana variety), with an average yield of over 4555 kg/ha registered at Serafino genotype in the conditions of a sandy soil with a low natural fertility, poorly supplied with total nitrogen (0.05-0.07%). In average, during the tested years, the attack frequencies of pests manifested in the comparative rye culture, as well as the attack intensities did not show significant differences from one variety to another, significant differences compared to the control variety (Suceveana) being observed only in the case of Serafino variety.