SAIFA: A web-based system for Integrated Production of olive cultivation

What is it about?

One of the essential requirements of current agricultural practice is the need to evolve towards crop techniques that make better use of productive factors behaving in sustainable and environmentally respectful ways. Pest control is one of the most important problems to take into account, due to the significant production losses that pests may cause. The Integrated Production for olive crop defines a set of rules that has to be followed in order to ensure a production of higher quality, and promotes an environmentally respectful model of Olive cultivation. This work presents SAIFA (spanish acronym for Sistema de Alerta e Información Fitosanitaria Andaluz – Andalusian Phitosanitary Information and Alert System) a web-based information system which allows monitoring the Integrated Production for the olive crop in Andalusia, Spain. SAIFA has been built as a tool to assist agricultural technicians to comply with the quality standards of Integrated Production, and to help decision makers to choose the actions to be performed in the crop. Also, it assists coordinators to choose an Integrated Production strategy applicable for the whole region with the main objective of ensuring the safety of crops and reporting the current phitosanitary state to the authorities.

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