Smart agriculture, the coordination of the national world

Water is a scarce good worldwide and especially in Spain where episodes of drought have been in recent years and in some regions of the country they are still alive. Currently, 90% of the available water in Spain is devoted to irrigated agriculture.

Water control and management is important for the sustainability of the planet and the business community. Large producers have water management systems with which they can arrange every phase of their production, these technologies are not accessible to these groups and as a result, irrigation water is wasted by poor management that translates into a loss of productivity and a decline for the environment.

Of the more than 15 million cultivable hectares, which is almost a third of the national territory, 85% of the productive area is in the hands of the small farmer and the SMEs. So in this case technology becomes an ally for producers and for the earth.

This is seen by the Spanish startup Prismab that, via a network of State -the advanced sensors connected to the internet and an app that the farmer can know in real time the most important parameters for decision -making, such as the amount of water available in the soil, the salt content or the temperature.

«Our mission is to include in the world of new technologies, of 4.0 management, to farmers who have not done this so far due to costs and because of management problems. We want there to be a lower desolation rate by small and medium -sized producers and that the generation relief in the sector is more attractive, “says Antonio Pastor, CEO of Prismab

The farmer can make warnings that let him know via the mobile app: among other things, low humidity, high conductivity or a precipitation warning. Moreover, the system sends a detailed report on the irrigation that you have made monthly.

With one glance, the farmer can gain access to all his data and knows the status of his external cultivation, without having to move continuously to control it.

In the United States alone, Smart Agriculture achieved a value of $ 7.5 billion and the figure increases to 13.5 billion in 2023, according to a Syngenta report.

Artificial intelligence puts producers on greater traceability of their exploitation and enables them to know the optimum moment to sow, water, fertilize or harvest. Information about crop status is obtained in real time to analyze the evolution of indicators such as ambient and soil temperature, soil moisture, atmospheric pressure, plant power, rainfall included in the field or wind speed.