Economic Evaluation of Precision Agriculture Application on Spring Barley Cultivation

Miloš Hána

Bakalářská práce

Abstract:

Focus of this thesis is to compare two different trajectory paths of agriculture machinery in terms of costs used on example of Spring Barley farm. Hypothesis of this work is to prove positive impact of optimized trajectory focused on overall costs of Spring Barley cultivation. By a trajectory path is assumed the shortest path to a target point on the boundary of an agricultural working area given a current position and heading of a ground vehicle within the area. The representative measurement of the shortest path will be based on two variables; Distance driven and time spent and recalculated afterwards in terms of fixed and variable costs (the computerized solution needs an investment; the resume stands as evaluation of overall costs.) The calculation will get us an overview of spent work hours, fuel costs and cultivation connected savings described on one-year cultivation and assumption of impacts on agricultural business management of our example.

Keywords

GPS, Precision Agriculture, Trajectory Path, RTK, CTF, Precizní zemědělství, Sladovnický Ječmen, Spring Barley, costs, business managment

Jazyk práce: angličtina

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 14. 3. 2018

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Vedoucí: Ing. Petr Procházka, MSc Ph.D.

Česká zemědělská univerzita v Praze

Provozně ekonomická fakulta

Bakalářský studijní program / obor:
Economics and Management / Economics and Management