Developing a conceptual technological model of the commercial production of onions, carrots, beetroots, and potatoes

   The optimal technological varinat for the production of vegetable crops can be determined, taking into account economic aspects. This variant presumes comprehensive selection of process operations using available machine systems and modern varieties and hybrids of planting material. To solve the development problems of the vegetable and potato growing industry in the long term, taking into account modern technologies for growing crops, managing machine-technological systems and improving the quality of technological and production decisions made in the machine production of vegetables, the authors have developed a conceptual technical and technological model for the machine production of onions, carrots and beetroots. The off ered model includes structural units (varieties, means of protection, machine-technological systems), resources (availability of seed material, machine-technological systems of crop production and crop rotation), processes and performance indicators. The model takes into account the set of elements of the technological method for obtaining products by means of transport, transmission, diagnostic and information means, organized into integral technological systems of production subdivisions. The developed model will take into account a number of factors: the implementation of production processes (sequence, timing of implementation, and the type of performed mechanized operations); requirements for material, financial, labor and technical resources; documentation for each stage of operations and quality indicators that determine the performance results at each stage. The obtained function of the commercial production of onions, carrots, beetroots, and potatoes, presented by the graph, will help determine the effi ciency and the evaluation of the optimal technical characteristics.

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