Estudio de pre-factibilidad para el diseño de un sistema automatizado de riego, para pequeños y medianos productores de tomate de árbol en departamento de Boyacá

Abstract

Water is a necessary resource for living things, this must be used sparingly to be preserved for future generations. Agriculture is an industry that uses a lot of water. Most of the time, this resource is not used efficiently and large amounts of water are wasted every year. To irrigate a crop requires a large amount of time, in addition to a large amount of human resources, as the irrigation tasks are executed by people, who perform all irrigation activities based on empirical knowledge. Very few irrigation systems currently use technology to reduce the number of workers or the time required to water the plants. With drip irrigation there is less contact of water with foliage, stems and fruits, these conditions favor the health of plants avoiding common diseases of the crop, in addition to a good irrigation program, it is possible to increase yield and quality Of the harvest. For this increase in the supply of and productivity of the agroindustrial sector it is necessary to include the small producers to reach the proposed goals. Such inclusion requires that small and medium producers have access to new techniques and technologies that allow them to improve their productivity and optimize the use of available resources. This document is organized in seven sections, the first part presents a brief introduction to the problem that is intended to mitigate with this project, the justification for identifying the target population of the project and the product. In the second part, the reference frame is constructed, with the conceptual, historical, and theoretical tools that allow us to define the practical object of this design. The third part of the document is built by the market study, which analyzes the qualitative and quantitative results obtained through the methodological study. The fourth section presents the technical study. The final part of the paper presents the administrative, financial and environmental study in sections five six and seven.