Decision Support System for single truss tomato

Engineering and horticultural research efforts aimed at developing an innovative, controlled environment, plant production system have been completed. In this production system, tomato plants are made transportable and each plant is allowed to produce only one truss of fruit. The main objective of this production system is to secure uninterrupted and predictable quantities of uniform quality tomatoes and make efficient use of resources. This single truss tomato production system (STTPS) is a highly integrated and technology intensive system. A computerized decision support system has been developed to aid the production planning of STTPS. The capabilities of this decision support system include:  calculate/estimate daily photosynthetically active radiation available to plants;  establish the production schedule based on the specified annual number of plantings;  calculate the number of plants per crop based on the greenhouse space constraint;  calculate the size of seedling area;  display the production area layout and crop placement;  determine yearly greenhouse space utilization efficiency;  estimate labour requirement;  provide a task and time table for the entire production year;  predict the yield;  estimate the revenue.