| Sumario: | [EN] The Institute of Agricultural and Fishery Research and Training (IFAPA in Spanish) is working to improve the management of water use in the strawberry crop. The objective of this work is to propose a methodology for estimating strawberry crop water requirements, which was applicable under growing conditions in the province of Huelva, in Southern Spain. This paper reports a simple method for performing daily irrigation schedules for strawberry crop under greenhouse. The method is based on estimating crop evapotranspiration using estimations of greenhouse reference evapotranspiration (ETo green) and crop coefficients. The ETo green was estimated, using a model based on solar radiation inside the greenhouse, using the weekly meteorological forecast provided by the Spanish Meteorology Agency (AEMET in Spanish). The comparison between estimated values from weather forecasting and those obtained using meteorological measurements was made weekly, as a quality indicator of information provided to the farmers.
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