Weather data for practical agriculture, reality and future prospects

Turka, I.; Berzins, A. . Faculty of Agriculture

Weather data for practical agriculture, reality and future prospects

1999

Turka, I. | Berzins, A. (Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia). Faculty of Agriculture)

The article presents as information on the essential changes which have taken place in strategy of crop protection and agronomy in Latvia during the last five years. Up to 1995 crop protection in Latvia was based only on the experience of experts. Weather based computer programmes have not been used for prediction of pest and disease outbreaks. For the present moment, weather - based system for calculating accumulated risk values of certain cereal pests and diseases and potato late blight is under evaluation in Latvia.

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Bibliographic information

Publisher

Latvia University of Agriculture

Pagination

p. 51-55

Other Subjects

Proteccion de las plantas; Donnee meteorologique; Datos meteorologicos; Metodos

Language

English

Note

Summary (En)

2 ill., 7 ref.

ISBN

9984-596-18-4

Type

Summary; Conference

Source

[Engineering problems of physics concerning agriculture. International research conference dedicated to the 60-th Anniversary of the Department of Physics], Iljins, U. (Latvia Univ. of Agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia))Navickas, J.Savcenko, P. (eds.).- Jelgava (Latvia): Latvia University of Agriculture, 1999.- ISBN 9984-596-18-4. 174 p.

Conference

International research conference: Engineering problems of physics concerning agriculture, Jelgava (Latvia), 17 Sep 1999

In AGRIS since: 1999-08-15

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