Ontology for pervasive traceability of agrochemicals

Abstract

The growth of the world population forces a more outstanding and more efficient food production, forcing agribusiness into the race for greater productivity. Thus, agrochemicals as a tool for increasing and defending production have become more critical with each harvest. This work presents an ontology that describes the knowledge involved in the need for Agrochemical Pervasive Traceability Model (APTM). This proposed ontology is called ontology for pervasive traceability of agrochemicals (OntoPTA). We present classes and their relationships in a hierarchical way and a visualization from the OWL ontology language. This ontology fills the gap in the understanding and modeling of this type of agribusiness process. This modeling helps farm administrators and software developers to perform better analysis for the development, use and maintenance of systems in agribusiness.