Tagging System added to Improve Banana Quality

A farm in Queensland, Australia has started to put on trial a new tagging system that utilizes technological attributes such as GPS and radiofrequency in order to accurately map yields and banana production. In fact, many farms have started to use this on their farms presently. The owner, Matt Abbott, has explained that that the tag goes into the stork on the bunch when the bag is put on.

In periods of low flows, the central part of the tagging system drain acts as an in-drain wetland. Moreover, In periods of high flow, the water will spill over the edges of the tagging system, and will hopefully filter out some of the sediment as well before it leaves the property. This is the reason why the shape of the drains of the tagging system was completely changed. Just by doing this, there was a great difference in the water quality.

In fact, the water from the drain has been monitored over the past two years, and that he was able to denitrify by developing the water plants in the drain. Furthermore, with the help of GPS mapping, a gridded drain tagging system, with 2.5 kilometres of underground piping was installed. This process was done effectively because the wet season had just passed by. Any kind of piping problem was totally solved after this. Hence, this helped to get the farm up and running. Since there was no water laying in the paddocks, so the gradients with the laser level of the tagging system have worked well. The levels worked well, the underground drainage worked well – in the three levels, there was very little flooding, so it coped with the volume of water.