Manna Success Story - Karacabey Turkey

Описание: For many years, I have been trying to inform our farmers about when and how much to irrigate their crops. People resort to different ways of irrigation. For example, here we once showed our farmers the evaporation pan, where with the evaporation pan they can test the water needs of the plant, measure how much you need to water in what time period. Of course, following this method was very difficult for everyone. Some of our farmers have tried to monitor the water needs of the plant through sensors. I tried this with Manna on an area of 15 hectares last year, and when I looked at the irrigation results in the past years, I saw that we managed the process better this year. I think we saved a lot in terms of irrigation. The farmers, who do not know about this system, give the same amount of water for a long time, starting at the beginning of the season, while watering their crops. This method is both harmful to the plant and, when we look at the high input costs today, it is also very costly in terms of energy need. We haven't had these problems since we started using Manna. In the fields and gardens where we have an irrigation system, the farmers cannot decide how much irrigation they will use. Also, the soil does not have the same structure at every point of the field and garden. Some places may have a light structure and some places may have a heavier structure and therefore different irrigation times may be required. This is true for plants. The most frequently asked question to us by our farmers is “How much water do I need for my land?” We have been answering this question with an estimated spreadsheet for many years, by examining past climate data and making calculations based on the results there. Due to the changes in the climate in recent years, it is very difficult to say this clearly. It doesn't seem right to me to do the amount of irrigation with the sensors I mentioned before. I see that it gives data on the need for irrigation in those systems, but I think there are serious problems with calibration. At Manna, we enter information into the system in advance, such as how many cm spaced the drip irrigation pipe we have installed in our field is, how many drops of water drip per hour, and whether it is a single row or double row. Afterwards, the program gives us the water requirement of the plant on an hourly or liter basis on a daily basis with the data it receives from the satellite. This is a great convenience for us. After we set up this system to our farmers and started to give information about how long they would irrigate their fields, on which day and at what time, we gained a significant advantage. I can recommend Manna to anyone who wants to increase irrigation efficiency. With Manna, they both increase irrigation efficiency and save energy. They will increase the productivity of their products while reducing their input costs without over-irrigating their lands. Berat Bey recommended the Manna system to us. We used to think that we were irrigating our field correctly. In fact, the system proved to us that this is not true. We installed the program in our fields where we plant 60 decares and 40 decares of corn. Before using Manna, we were watering our cornfield once a week. One irrigation day, we forgot to water one of the water lines in our field. The system warns us with color change when we do not irrigate. When we control it from the computer, the area where the plants we forgot to water is seen completely red. We detected it from the computer. The owner of the field, Mr. Salim, asked us if we did not irrigate that area, we told him that we irrigated, and when we went and checked the land, we saw that that area was not irrigated. Thanks to Manna, we realized that we were not watering. Imagine if the unirrigated area could have been much larger. If we didn't see that we made a mistake, we wouldn't be able to water that area for 15 days and the plant would be stressed. We would have to resort to other methods to cover the damage. After starting to use manna, there was an increase in yield between 15% and 20%. 0 days before us. Why? Because the corn he planted stopped growing and he cut off its water. The development of the corn we planted did not stop and continued to take water. In this way, the specific gravity continued to increase. The result was an increase in productivity. Thanks to you, we were introduced to this technology while using the methods we learned from previous generations. I think like this. Our land is considered a small area in total, but on lands much larger than us, 20% yield increase means 300 kg increase in a land that is 1500 kg per decare. With the size of the land, the earnings are much larger. I definitely recommend Manna. We will continue to use it next year.