**6. Conclusions**

Integration of irrigation scheduling and irrigation system maintenance concepts and techniques is a most needed technology to be adopted by agricultural stakeholders, providing data and orientations to optimize the benefits of irrigation investments, influencing both crop yield and quality, as well as by significant reductions in water, energy, and repairing costs. Professional specialized advice on the operation of the irrigation equipment, including daily irrigation scheduling, irrigation equipment maintenance and training, and control of irrigation system and field personnel operational performance throughout the season is highly recommended.

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**Author details**

Luis A. Gurovich1

Consultants S. A., Santiago, Chile

G&A Consultants S. A., Santiago, Chile

\*Address all correspondence to: lgurovich@gya.cl

provided the original work is properly cited.

*Agronomic Operation and Maintenance of Field Irrigation Systems*

Implementation costs of continuous irrigation scheduling services and system

maintenance protocol analysis, including field personnel training, are almost irrelevant (in the range of U\$ 20–U\$ 90/hectare-year), in the scope of crop annual production costs. Moreover, incorporation of new Internet of Things applications for sensor collection of field data and its real-time analysis with increasingly powerful graphic software, using big data analysis tools, indicates that further cost reductions and increasing applications of irrigation scheduling to farming can be

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.84997*

expected.

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2 Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Agronomía, Universidad de Las Americas and

\* and Luis Fernando Riveros2

1 Agriculture and Forestry School, Universidad Catolica de Chile and G&A
