How you benefit from the gaiasense app’s nutrition recipe and nutrient balance:

• You can calculate the nutrient needs of your crop
• You can get personalized nutritional advice for your field
• You can implement environmentally and climate-friendly practices
• You can benefit from the extra “green” support of the Eco Schemes

Nutrition recipe

Thanks to the gaiasense app, you will be able to receive Nutrition recipe for any field you wish.

What does this mean;
The Nutrition Recipe service analyzes the soil fertility on the field in both basic soil properties and nutrient content. It calculates the availability but also the losses of nutrients and compares them with the needs of the crop. If the needs are not covered by the soil, it proceeds to advice of adding the missing elements. For the addition of the elements, the appropriate fertilizers, the exact dosage and the time of their application are recommended for the best possible results, always with an emphasis on the protection of natural resources.

How will you get the Recipe?
Log in to the gaiasense app. On the home page, through the menu, you can choose “Nutrition Recipe Issue”. The list of your parcels will appear, from where you can choose the one you wish to receive advice on. Next, you select a crop from those currently running on that field.

Finally, you choose a territorial analysis from the available ones and by pressing “Issue” you receive the advice.

We recommend that you select the most recent soil analysis on file so that the advice produced is based on data that best reflects the true state of the soil.

It is worth noting that the gaiasense app has information from a qualified digital database with the nutrient needs of the reference crop for a growing season.

* Note: The Nutrition Recipe service presupposes that for the plot of land of your choice, a soil analysis of a full package (advanced) has already been registered on the gaiasense platform, by you or your agricultural consultant. Otherwise, the command will not be able to be executed.

Nutrient balance

Thanks to the gaiasense app you can receive a Nutrient Balance for the field of your choice.

What does this mean;

The Nutrient balance service analyzes the soil fertility on the plot in both basic soil properties and nutrient content. It calculates the availability but also the losses of nutrients and compares them with the needs of the crop. If the needs are not covered by the soil, it proceeds to advice of adding the missing elements. For the addition of the elements, the appropriate fertilizers, the exact dosage and the time of their application are recommended for the best possible results, always with an emphasis on the protection of natural resources.

How will you calculate it?

Log in to the gaiasense app. On the home page, through the menu, you can choose “Nutrient Balance Issue”. The list of your plots will appear, from where you can choose the one for which you wish to receive the Balance. Next, you select a crop from those currently running on that field.

Then, you choose an advanced package territorial analysis from the available ones. We suggest that you prefer the territorial analysis that fits best chronologically with the period you will choose next.

Finally, you choose the period of time for which you are interested in calculating the Nutrient Balance. The time range you can choose is set to not exceed one year (365 days) and include one growing season.

By pressing “Issue” you receive a report on the Balance in question.

It is noted that after the Cultivation Period Needs have been assessed, the Fertilization Applications you have recorded, for the period of your choice, appear. The final Nutrient Balance and the corresponding Characterization result from the comparison of the Needs with the set of Applications.

If the total of any element added exceeds the needs of the crop for the selected growing season, then the Balance will be labeled “Surplus”. If, on the contrary, it falls short of the needs, it will be characterized as “Deficit”, and if the needs are exactly met, it is given the designation “Neutral Balance”.

** Note: The Nutrient Balance service presupposes that for the plot of land of your choice, a soil analysis of a full package (advanced) has already been registered on the gaiasense platform, by you or your agricultural consultant. Otherwise, the order will not be able to be executed.

With the gaiasense app you can determine the needs of your crops, produce more sustainably and earn more

What does the gaiasense specialized weather forecast offer you?

• Warnings for extreme weather events
  The gaiasense app warns you of extreme weather events, such as hail, frost, heavy rain, heat wave, etc., 48 hours before they happen. Even if this probability is of the order of 10%, you will receive a notification on your mobile phone with the probable time of occurrence of the phenomenon. Thus, you have time to take measures to protect your crop.
• Specialized meteorological parameters
  The gaiasense app gives you a five-day weather forecast, specifically for your area and not for the entire prefecture. In fact, the information it provides is accurate and in real time, so you have an idea of the weather conditions in your field without having to monitor a multitude of sites, applications or bulletins to see approximately what the weather will be like tomorrow.
• Daily water loss index (ETo reference evapotranspiration)
  The reference evapotranspiration (ETo) or, more simply, the daily water loss under certain conditions, helps you understand which day or week your crop needed the most water. Thus, you have a more complete picture of the available moisture in your fields.
• Leaf Wetness Index (LW)
  Leaf Wetness, or, in simple words, the amount of moisture on the leaves for a certain period of time, gives you a sense of how favorable the environmental conditions are for the growth of certain fungi that may threaten your crop.
• Reliable forecasts with over 400 agrometeorological stations
  The comparative advantage of the gaiasense system in relation to other meteorological forecasting services is the extensive network of agrometeorological stations it has in the rural areas of Greece. The data collected by these stations is assimilated into the gaiasense1 forecasts and thus dramatically increases the accuracy of the forecasts and, consequently, their reliability.

With the gaiasense app you can have a fast and reliable weather forecast for each of your plots, at any time, in your pocket!

What do you get with the gaiasense app farming calendar?

Entry of tasks in a digital calendar

gaiasense and the gaiasense app enable you to keep a real-time digital log of all the work you do in the field. Irrigation, plant protection, fertilization, harvesting, cultivation practices and soil management, all are registered in an easy-to-use and simple way on mobile, through the application.
Thus, you have immediately, at any time, gathered all the cultivation operations, in each of your fields, in detail.

History of farming operations

You can enter the application from your mobile phone and refer to the history of your tasks, without any effort. Result? You can see at any time in which field you did which work, with specific details and arrange future activities accordingly.

Support in a cloud environment

All the files of the application are stored safely in a cloud infrastructure, so you are sure that there is no risk of losing either your calendar or your history from the gaiasense app.

Complete picture of your crop

The detailed recording of cultivation operations in the gaiasense calendar enables you to have a valid picture of your field and your crop at all times, quickly and easily. When and how much you watered and in which field, what kind of fertilizer you used, if you pruned, how much you harvested in each field and many other pieces of information will help you make better decisions about your production and save both time and money.

Greener production

Having a detailed view of the farming operations in your fields, you will be able to better and more rationally regulate fertilization, irrigation and crop protection – among other things. Consequently, you will manage to reduce costs and unnecessary losses in resources. Thus, you “green” your production and keep up with the requirements of the new CAP.

With the gaiasense app you can register your work in the field easily and simply, for each of your fields.

How can the gaiasense app help you spray more correctly?

Spray Suitability Index
Statistics show that 2 out of 3 sprays (66%) of a growing season can be unnecessary or incorrect. With gaiasense, however, you know when the conditions are right to spray and you don’t make a mistake. In other words, this means: a) a reduction in production costs, since you avoid unnecessary spraying, b) greater protection of your crop, since your plant protection is done in a more efficient way, c) better quality production, since you use fewer pesticides. In addition, you save valuable time from fewer visits to your field and protect the environment from unnecessary agrochemicals.

How does gaiasense accomplish this?
Combining meteorological weather forecasts with meteorological conditions that affect the effectiveness of sprays. The calculation of spraying suitability is done for each of your plots separately and for every three hours, within the next 3 days of the forecast. And it is displayed on the weather forecast screen with a simple color scale
For example, when high winds are expected/forecasted, spraying conditions are ineffective or even dangerous. gaiasense calculates the above data and displays red (meaning conditions prohibit spraying) during that time period. In fact, in the red time intervals, the application also shows you the reason why spraying is not allowed.
Conversely, if conditions are favorable, it appears green (conditions are ideal) or light green/khaki indicating that conditions are not ideal, but allow spraying to take place.

With the gaiasense app you avoid unnecessary spraying, better protect your crop and save valuable time and money!

How does the gaiasense app help you identify problems in your crop?

• Vegetation Index (NDVI) & satellite imagery

gaiasense calculates the NDVI vegetation index using images from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite, which takes a new image every 5 days. With these satellite images and the vegetation indicator you can easily and quickly see how “vigorous” your field is.
In short, the greener the color in the satellite image, the larger the value of the index gets closer to 1. The more yellow and brown the color, the smaller the value of the index gets closer to 0. So, if you see some color variation in more than one image during the growing season, then there is probably a problem and it is worth doing a field inspection.

• Vegetation index & weed detection

An additional possibility that the vegetation index gives you is the detection of weeds in fields sown with annual crops. If through the images vegetation is observed during periods when the field is uncultivated, then these are weeds that should be eliminated before the next sowing.

• Vegetation index & irrigation problems

By monitoring the vegetation index (NDVI) satellite images at different stages of growth, you can identify unevenness issues in the irrigation system and address them.

• Vegetation index & fertilization problems

By watching how the vegetation index changes in each field during the growing season, you can spot problems with plant growth. If with a visit to your field you see that there is no problem neither with watering, nor with infection by pests and diseases, the problem may be due to fertilization and with a correction it can be solved.

With the gaiasense app you can identify potential problems in some part of your crop, from wherever you are.

Why does the gaiasense app improve the way you water?

• Reference evapotranspiration index (ETo)
  With the ETo index you can know which day or week your crop needs more or less water. How can you learn this? Simply by comparing daily water loss (ETo index) from day to day or from week to week.
  Higher values mean your crop lost a lot of water and will probably need more in the next day or week. However, the ETo index does not tell you how much water was lost. You can, however, calculate it by connecting to other gaiasense packages, where, among other things, the ΕΤc index is calculated, which measures water loss in a specific crop and specific soil, climate and field conditions.
• Precipitation index
  With the precipitation indicator you can find out how much rain has accumulated in a certain period of time. Precipitation, like reference evapotranspiration (ETo), is measured in millimeters (mm – equivalent to cubic meters per hectare), which are accumulated over a certain period of time.
  High rainfall values in a particular 24-hour period mean that the rain that fell on that plot of land increased the humidity significantly and you don’t need to irrigate.
  Statistics show that you can reduce the amount of irrigation water by up to 43% if you properly utilize the information from the water indicators of gaiasense1. In other words, this means: a) a reduction in production costs, since you save irrigation water from unnecessary watering, b) greater protection of your crop, since the extra moisture can favor the growth of certain fungi, and c) better quality agricultural products.

With the gaiasense app you can learn more about your crop, better control your irrigation and reduce your production costs.

How can the gaiasense app help your crop’s growth?

• Growing Degree Days
  Growing degree days show how many hours of temperature a plant has “accumulated”. The longer these hours are, the faster this plant will grow.
  What are they for? With the growth days you can compare different plots or growing seasons and understand in which cases you will have an early or late harvest. And so organize your work better, so you can save valuable time.
  In order for gaiasense to start measuring growth days, the start time point of the culture must be determined. In perennial crops this is usually after dormancy and in annual crops, immediately after sowing or transplanting.
  All you have to do is enter the start dates for each plot of land you have declared in the application. The system will then begin recording hourly temperature degrees above the initial set point.
• Chill Hours
  Chill hours are the period of low temperatures that several species of fruit trees need during the winter to break dormancy and be able to flower and bud in the spring.
  gaiasense automatically calculates the chill hours separately, for each crop and plot of land you have entered, through the accurate recording of the ambient temperature in each area.
  What can you tell by looking at the cold hours at the end of winter? The cold hours inform you about whether or not your crop will be delayed in coming out of dormancy, and even if it will present a problem with flowering and fruiting. In any case, you have an early indication of what to do.

With the gaiasense app you can see how your crop is growing, through your mobile screen!

What else can the gaiasense app do for you?

Answers to your questions

Do you have questions about smart farming? Want to learn how to get the most out of the gaiasense app? No problem! Enter the gaiasense app, go to the digital guide and find all the answers. For irrigation, fertilization, plant protection, smart farming and all other agricultural issues that concern you every day.

With the gaiasense app you have a digital “encyclopedia” of agricultural production and smart farming in your hand.

Can the gaiasense app help you choose the crop type for your field?

The ideal crop for your field

gaiasense uses climate data as well as soil map data that covers the largest percentage of arable land in Greece, to find the soil and climate suitability of your field.
The soil-climatic suitability shows to what extent the specific soil conditions that apply in your field, combined with the climatic conditions in the wider area, favor or hinder the development of a specific crop.
With more than 140 crops classified by soil and climate suitability, you can now know with clarity and precision which crops thrive in your field or which of your fields are suitable for specific crops.
The soil-climatic suitability of the gaiasense app can be used as a first indication of crop suitability. Especially if there is no previous experience of its performance in the specific area.
However, In no case can the indication replace good practices for assessing the suitability of a crop on a particular plot of land, which include the advice of an experienced agronomist.

With the gaiasense app you can choose the crop with the best productive yields for your own field.

Why is the gaiasense app ideal for organizing your fields?

• Planning, organization & monitoring
  In the gaiasense app, each field has its own “page”. Now, you can design your own field easily and quickly on the map, add name, area and crop to organize and monitor them better.
  On the tab’s map, you draw the perimeter of the parcel with your finger. If you are currently in your field, selecting the location button will focus the map on that specific point. Thus, the process of mapping and registering the field becomes even simpler, while with a “click” on the screen you see all the information corresponding to each.
• Specialized information
  Each one of your fields appears in the application with its satellite image. By clicking on its image, you can have in your hands the following information for each: vegetation index (NDVI), water indicators, growing degree days, weather forecast, suitability of sprays.
  This way, you know what is happening in each of your plots, in a simple and understandable way and with a glance on your mobile phone. What does it offer you? Make the best decisions for your production and do your work easier and more efficiently.

With the gaiasense app you can monitor, plan and organize your fields, effortlessly, through your mobile phone.

What else can the gaiasense app do for you?

Daily news

In order to always be the first to receive the latest news and notifications – from Greece but also the all over the world – directly on your mobile phone, and to never again miss something important for your production and subsidies, the gaiasense app enables you to read with one “click” the news related to the agricultural production and the economy, in general.

With the gaiasense app it’s like having a staff of journalists by your side at all times.