Mobile Application for Adjusting Air-Bast Sprayers in Coffee Plantation

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2022-09-13

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Associação Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola

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Mobile application development advances, particularly for smartphones and tablets, have allowed farmers to make decisions more assertively in their agrobusiness management. This article addresses the development and evaluation of an app aimed at people who deal with the pesticide application technology in coffee farming, more specifically, adjustment and calibration of sprayers. This mobile app provides the main data necessary for a correct calibration of air-blast sprayers to apply pesticides in coffee planting. Its functionalities include calculation of the application rate for each situation (L ha-1) based on data obtained in the field, such as canopy volume. The app, called SprayCafé, was developed for the Android platform using the Java programming language in the integrated development environment Android Studio. After the development, the application was evaluated, based on a questionnaire answered by 139 users, who ranked the following requirements: ease of use, loading time, adequacy of screen resolution, data relevance, sequence of information, and applicability, among others. The system proved to be simple and robust; it was thus assessed as adequate to the field and to be of great value for coffee planting, especially because it allows safer and more adequate pesticide application. The graphical user interface is interactive and easy to use.

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Coffea arabica, application technology, digital agriculture, agricultural mechanization

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CUNHA, João P. A. R. da, ALVES, Thales C.; PENHA, Rafael S. A. Mobile Application for Adjusting air-blast sprayers in coffee Plantation. Engenharia Agrícola, Jaboticabal, v. 42, n. 5, e20220034, 13 sept. 2022.

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