Automated selection of agricultural technologies and tractor fleet of an agricultural enterprise: web-application structure and algorithms

   The issues of increasing efficiency and competitiveness of a crop farming enterprise through information support of production using digital technologies are considered. The process of selecting technologies and technical means in the cultivation of crops is investigated. The available methods and software tools used to solve these problems are studied. The expediency of developing a web-oriented software complex of the automated choice of agricultural technologies and MTF (machine and tractor fleet), providing accounting and operational processing of a variety of information describing objectively existing large number of factors, conditions and characteristics of production in the agricultural enterprise is substantiated. Based on the analysis of the main scientific and methodological components of cereal crop cultivation technologies, a structural scheme of a web-application is formed. Algorithms for software modules as components of the software package, with a common database and a unified common interface are developed. The implementation of the software package in the future will automate the process of forming an annual work planning, calculation of economic indicators, will allow the timely implementation of the necessary repair and maintenance activities to reduce power losses due to the inevitable deterioration of the technical condition of the ICE of the machine-tractor fleet in production conditions. The software package under development can be used in crop production in decision support systems based on digital technologies.

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