Revista Eletrônica Competências Digitais para Agricultura Familiar (Mar 2016)

GREENHOUSES: Technology assisting Family Farming

  • Marcos Vinicius Santos da Silva,
  • Jheniffer Rafaela Rocha Sanches

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 2
pp. 75 – 86

Abstract

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Family farms are formed by small farmers and their families, their activity is of great importance for the country, considering that it meets 70% of food distribution in Brazil, but its recognition on public policy makes your lower investment related will agribusiness, food producers cultivate these are natural and they use less pesticide compared to large producers. Family farming is experiencing difficulties before the climate vulnerability, preventing large yields, on these events, through studies and research we came to a conclusion in creating a smartphone application, which has the following function to correct the factors that affect productivity family farmer. This application will provide the user with two important tools (air conditioning and irrigation), for control of the environment, which will monitor and changes in the area, thus increasing productivity and reducing cost in production. This indicates that the factors that interfere with productivity will be corrected and productions that have their vulnerability, through this method will be solved making it impossible for losses prevail in production.

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