Pesticides

Pesticides

In Administration panel - Settings- Program parameters - Agronomy we add new  menu Pesticides.

There are two tabs: Active substances and Pesticides

On Active substances mask there are supposed active substances to be entered.
Farmer can add them manually at the moment. Following entry fields are to be entered:
- Name
- Type
- Description

Pesticide search is possible according to active substance.

Pesticides has following entry fields:
- ID (Item name)
- Name (Common name)
- U/M (Unit of measure)
- Categories (Usage type of pesticide)
- Formulation (Pesticide substance formulation)
- Active substance/s (Active substance/s which are functional parts of pesticide)
- Reg. from (Registration date)
- Reg. to (Registration duration)
- Manufacturer (Pesticide producer)

Additionally, pesticides mask has in details 4 more tabs:
1. Dosages
2. Distributors
3. Description
4. Restrictions

Dosages

Dosages are in this stage of development possible to enter manually. Dosages can be dependent of:
- Culture
- Variety
- Pest/Disease

For any specific dosage dependency new record is entered. As seen, we can add only Pest/Disease dependency, or Culture dependency ot variety dependency, all three or two of them.
Once Pest/Disease is entered it is offered in drop down menu later as an option to choose.
Dosages should be entered in decimal numbers which represents percentage usage.
Max single dosage is a maximum single dose which could be used when spraying.

Distributors

This part of Pesticide code book mask is about cost analysis. For every pesticide more entries can be put. Actual last price is last price of the pesticide when it was bought from the supplier. It is automatically added for the supplier. We can also add estimated price per unit. Unit of measure is the one defined within Item mask.

Description

Description enables farmers to quickly browse through pesticide description and to check pesticide usage, type of activity and similar. Also, for further PAFA development for managing documentation for various standards there is possibility of saving Safety sheet.

Restrictions
Restrictions are usually related with the culture. That is why is the first entry per record culture. There is planned that maybe variety can be additional factor.
Preharvest interval is period from date of the spraying until the consumption is allowed. It is defined in days.
Restricted entry interval is a period form spraying until workers can freely enter the sprayed field. It is defined in hours.
Max. annual dosage is quantity of pesticide which is allowed to be used in one year per area (usually in lit or kr/ha).
Max. single dose is quantity of pesticide which is allowed to be used in one spraying.

If we have this data on web service, we can import them. If don't have than we can put data manually.

Search

Central functionality of current pesticide module is Pesticide search.
Pesticides can be searched according to:
- Pesticide name
- Categories
- Act. Substances
- Culture
- Pest/Disease

Search can be further refined, for instance: if you enter as a search term "Aphids", you can further refined search results by any other search option, for instance you can refined it by culture.

How to import data from web service

On mask Pesticide we click on button  and we choose Import Pesticides.  The program will open window, where we can download pesticides from web service.

Steps in this window:

1. we choose Country
2. click Download from service
3. choose pesticides ( we check them)
4. click transfer into Register
5. Close the window

When we close the window we go in tree list on left site, and go with arrow down up and we will see pesticides that we have downloaded from web service.

We can enter pesticide manually if we have them in code books for items.