ARTIFICIAL COMPACTION GIVEN BY PENETRATION RESISTANCE IN SOILS WITH DIFFERENTUSE

Heavy agricultural machinery is major cause of one of the processes of soil degradation, compaction, which became a problem of significant proportions, especially on soils with high moisture. Excessive traffic affects soil quality and crop production, and also causes environmental problems.The paper presents the results of research conducted to determine soil compaction on three experimental fields: plot of energy willow, plot of clover and cherry orchard, while different moisture contents represent subfactor. Maximum penetration resistances were recorded at 45 cm depth, where the soil is severely compacted: 3194.5 kPa on the soil cultivated with energy willow, 2984kPa in the orchard, respectively 3069kPa on the plot of clover

INNOVATIVE EQUIPMENT FOR CULTIVATING MEDICINAL AND AROMATIC PLANTS ON SMALL SURFACES

Medicinal and aromatic plant cultures are part of the niche culture category. Although the local pedoclimatic conditions are favourable, the application of culture technologies is carried out on small farms. To this fact also contributes, in addition to other factors, the lack of adequate technical means, farmers usually using physical workforce (family or local labour). In order to support the small growers, it was necessary to design and develop equipment for the cultivation of medicinal and aromatic plants on small surfaces.This paper presents the tests performed on the experimental plots at INMA Bucharest, regarding the sowing and harvesting works, on a culture of Basil - Ocimum basilicum L., Lamiaceae family

CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PLANTS PROTECTION BY MEANS OF BIOFERTILIZERS / BIOINSECTICIDES

The paper presents some aspects regarding the utilization of certain ecological substances as an alternative to environmental-friendly insecticides, in order to obtain some ecological products within the context of the increasesd concern for ecological products

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH ON ENERGY AND OPERATING PARAMETERS OF THE TILLER M7.5 + REVERSIBLE PLOW PR1 AGGREGATE

This paper shows some information about the experimental research made todetermine the operating parameters of an aggregate which consists of a 7.5 hp tiller, symbolized M7,5 and a reversible plow with a band, symbolized PR1. The researches were carried out in real working conditions, the ultimate goal being to promote the marketing of the mentioned machine. To achieve optimal conditions for growing plants in general, and vegetables particularly in small farms and individual households, a good quality plowing it’s essential. This work can be realized with smaller equipment and addequate working capacities such as tillers in aggregate with technical working equipments, these being the ideal solution to meet the needs of small farmers

Nonsmooth optimization over the (weakly or properly) Pareto set of a linear-quadratic multi-objective control problem: Explicit optimality conditions

We present explicit optimality conditions for a nonsmooth functional dened over the (properly or weakly) Pareto set associated with a multiobjective linear-quadratic control problem. This problem is very dicult even in anite dimensional setting, i.e. when, instead of a control problem, we deal with a mathematical programming problem. Amongst various applications, our problem may be considered as a response for a decision maker when he has to choose a solution over the solution set of the grand coalition p-player cooperative differential game