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No worries for the seedling nursery, TSIPS can help ! “Vegetable Seedlings Intelligent Production Management System”

No worries for the seedling nursery, TSIPS can help ! “Vegetable Seedlings Intelligent Production Management System”

Taiwan Seed Improvement and Propagation Station/ Yi-Lung, Chang. Yu-Ching, Tsai. Yu-Kuang, Hsueh. Ting-Lin, Chang

   Taiwan Seed Improvement and Propagation Station (TSIPS), Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan has completed the development of the "Vegetable Seedlings Intelligent Production Management System" by taking advantage of the development of the domestic information technology industry, and people are already familiar with the advantages of smart equipment operation, in order to assist the domestic seedling farms in the industrial transformation, to promote the continuous manpower into the industry and the efficiency of nursery management and shorten the adaptation period of second-generation succession.

   TSIPS states that nursery farms generally still rely on a large white board and paper accounting book for order acceptance and production and sales management.  When the industry is facing a shortage of labor or there is a gap in experience inheritance and digital transformation needs, we can upgrade the original seedling equipment, field, and management and sales system to smart software and hardware, and then the competitiveness of the nursery can continue to be maintained.

   TSIPS points out that the system covers the production and marketing process of the entire nursery industry, from customer ordering, seed sowing, nursery management, seedling inventory, shipping and money collection, etc., there are corresponding forms and interfaces, which can provide the industry to fully integrate the current status electronically. Since 2021, the "Vegetable Crop Seedling Growth Forecast Expert System" has been integrated into the Vegetable Seedlings Intelligent Production Management System. Through the accumulation of more than 10,000 plug seedling growth survey data and corresponding environmental data in the expert system, the system can predict the growth status of seedlings after sowing, and then estimate the date of shipment. At present, several crops such as "chu ciou" cabbage and "yu nyu" tomato have completed the seedling growth prediction model, and completed the integration of online services, and the prediction accuracy can reach 80%.

   TSIPS explains that the system is currently in the promotion stage. The farm owner can apply to TSIPS for inducting the system, and then customize the seedling category and management items according to the scale and management policy of the seedling farm. After accumulating records for a period of time, they can have a clearer grasp of the operation of the nursery farm, as well as the customer's past orders and shipments, and plan ahead and take the initiative to make the nursery farm order operations smoother. Therefore, we welcome the seedling industry who is interested in applying in intelligent seedling production to join and be in the grand event of industrial transformation!

Figure 1. The environment of the vegetable seedling production field.
Figure 1. The environment of the vegetable seedling production field.

 

Figure 2. The application carrier of the “Vegetable Seedlings Intelligent Production Management System”.
Figure 2. The application carrier of the “Vegetable Seedlings Intelligent Production Management System”.

 

Figure 3. Data collection of physiological parameters of cabbage seedlings.
Figure 3. Data collection of physiological parameters of cabbage seedlings.