Iranian Researchers Indigenize Meteorological System for Agricultural Sector

“One of the products of our company is meteorological stations for agricultural uses. These stations operate based on the farmers’ needs and provide them with the necessary data based on the global standards of agricultural meteorology. The sensors installed in these portable and operable stations have also been domestically produced,” said Vali Kamali Moqaddam, the managing director of knowledge-based ‘Electronic Tools Engineering Company of Yazd’.

He added that a platform has also been developed in his company to convert the information of these meteorological stations into understandable and easy data, noting that for instance, the farmer is informed of the best time to spray pesticides or harvest in this platform based on the forecast of weather, humidity and temperature.

The knowledge-based company has also designed a low-price product for smaller farms of 1 or 2 hectares, which shows basic and essential figures, including temperature and humidity, Kamali Moqaddam said.

He added that the company has also designed a monitoring system used in greenhouses and chicken farms which can measure four parameters of carbon monoxide, ammonia gas, temperature and humidity, stating that the data is highly important for the owners of the mentioned farms and helps them save water and fertilizers in greenhouses or prevent serious losses in poultry farms.

Agricultural meteorology is an interdisciplinary science concerned with discovering, defining, and applying knowledge of the interactions between meteorological and hydrological factors and biological systems for practical use in agriculture.

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