Vintel Orchards

A decision support tool for Irrigation Management of Almonds Orchards.

Optimal irrigation in fruit and nut trees is essential to maximize yield and optimize fruit quality. To apply the optimal irrigation, growers needs to consider multiple factors related with the crop, soil, irrigation system, production objective as well as weather forecast. Irrigation management is therefore extremely complex and time consuming for growers because they need to take decisions in a weekly basis for multiple blocks with distinct characteristics. Grower decisions on irrigation management can be facilitated if grower adopt the ‘Vintel Orchard’ mobile application developed by itk. ‘Vintel Orchards’ is a user-friendly application where the grower can easily introduce their block characteristics, compare their irrigations to the optimal irrigation and receive alerts when blocks are not well managed.