Tagarakis Aristotelis

 

PhD. Thesis: Application of Precision Agriculture in Vines

Nationality: Greek, Born in Thessaloniki, 1980

Education:

  • Diploma in Agriculture, Department of Agriculture, University of Thessaly, Greece.
  • MSc in "Automations on Farm Constructions, Agricultural  Mechanization and Irrigation " School of Agricultrual Sciences, University of Thessaly in cooperation with the Department of Automation Engineering, Technological Institute of Chalkida,Greece.

 

E-mail: atagarak@uth.gr

Languages

English: Very good; Greek: Mother tongue

     German: Basic knowledge

Computer operation knowledge

Windows(95, 98, ΜΕ, 2000, XP).

Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point).

Internet

“G.I.S.” software (Arc-view, Arc-GIS: applications on Geographical Information Systems).

“G.I.S.” software (Surfer: applications on Geographical Information Systems).

Professional experience

01/02/2010-31/4/2010: Research Program: «FutureFarm. "Meeting the challenges of the farm of tomorrow by integrating Farm Management Information Systems to support real-time management decisions and compliance to standards"». Analysis of management strategies and required compliance to standards. Mananegement zonew creation and assessment. Participation as exhibitor in ‘Athens Digital Week’ October 7-10, 2010, Technopolis, Gazi, Athens. Scientific supervisor Assistant Prof. S. Foyntas, CERETETH, Volos. 

 

01/08/2009 - 31/12/2009: Research Program: «A feasibility study for Variable Rate Irrigation in the Black Sea Region: Economic and Environmental benefits (BSEC/PDF/0020/11.2008)». Irrigation needs evaluation, Variable Rate Irrigation map creation, application of variable rate irrigation and economical assessment. ScientificsupervisorProf. T. Gemtos, UniversityofThessaly, Volos.

01/06/2009 - 31/07/2009:    Research Program: Evaluation of the results of the 6th European Congress on Precision Agriculture. ScientificsupervisorProf. T. Gemtos, UniversityofThessaly, Volos.

1/2/08–31/10/08: Research program: Biofuel production, properties and performance evaluation when used in a diesel tractor engine. ScientificsupervisorProf. T. Gemtos, Universityof Thessaly, Volos.

22/5/06–21/1/07:Greek Organization of Agricultural Refund. Kozani, Veria, Greece. Working as Agronomist evaluating plant production losses.

 

February–July2006:Research Program:Registration of the produced biomass in county of Larissa using GIS, in order to organize a network of the production fields, transportation ways and biomass processing factories. ScientificsupervisorProf. T. Gemtos, Universityof Thessaly, Volos. Creation of thematic maps of Larissa County including the registered biomass.

5/7/02–5/9/02:Institute of Plant Protection, Thessaloniki, Greece. Participation in the institute’s research programs on potato, tomato, sunflower and wild oat (Avena sterilis).

Seminars

25/02/2008-25/06/2008: Training on energy plant cultivation and production methods and exploitation of liquid energy products. Innovation Pole of Thessaly. Volos (Duration 200 hours).

25-27/04/07:Training–informing on geographical Information Systems ArcGIS (ArcInfo – ArcView - ArcGIS Server), Thessaloniki. 

29/3/2005:  Youth Business Dexterity Seminar. University of Thessaly, Volos.

September2003–February2004: Program of Business Dexterity and Innovation. “Introduction to Business Dexterity”, University of Thessaly, Volos.

February2004–June2004:Program on Business Dexterity and Innovation. “Design of Products and Services”, Universityof Thessaly, Volos, Greece.

29/11/02: Hydroponics: PresentandFuture on Greek Greenhouses. Universityof Thessaly – Agronomic University of Athens, Volos, Greece.

26-27/09/02:    Training–informing on Geographical Information Systems,ArcGIS(ArcInfo– ArcView), Larissa, Greece. 

26/04/02:Environmental Protection and Development in the Areas of «Nature  (NATURA)  2000». University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece.

28/02/02:New Incomes in Greek Agriculture. University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece.

Publications

Turker U., Erdem T., Tagarakis A., Mitev G., Gemtos T. A., (2011). A feasibility study of Variable Rate Irrigation in Black Sea Area: Water and Energy Saving from the Application. Journal of Information Technology in Agriculture (JITAg),Vol. 4 (1), ISSN: 1546-959X, http://jitag.org.

Tagarakis A., Perlepes L., Liakos V., Fountas S., Kikiras P., Gemtos T. (2010). Application of Precision Agriculture in vines. AgEng 2010, International Conference on Agricultural Engineering, September 6-8 2010, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Turker U., Erdem A., Tagarakis A., Fountas S., Mitev G., Akdemir B., Gemtos T. A. (2010). A feasibility study of Variable Rate Irrigation in Black Sea area: Design characteristics of a boom type traveler irrigator. ITAFFE ’10, 3rd International Congress on Information and Communication Technologies in Agriculture, Food, Forestry and Environment, June 14-18 2010, Samsun, Turkey.

Tagarakis A., Karamoutis C., Kavalaris c., Migdakos E. and Gemtos T.A. (2009). The economical balance of three energy cultivations in Thessaly region, Greece. 6th Conference on Farm Mechanization: “Farm Mechanization and Biosystems Engineering in the era of biofuels and climatic changes.” Thessaloniki, 8-10/10/2009, Greece.

Kavalaris c., Karamoutis C., Tagarakis A. and Gemtos T.A. (2009). The energy balance of three energy cultivations in Thessaly region, Greece. 6th Conference on Farm Mechanization: “Farm Mechanization and Biosystems Engineering in the era of biofuels and climatic changes.” Thessaloniki, 8-10/10/2009, Greece.

Tagarakis A., Chatzinikos A., Fountas S., Gemtos T. (2006). Delineation of management zones in precision viticulture, International Conference on: Information Systems in Sustainable Agriculture, Agroenviroment and Food Technology, Volos, Greece.

TagarakisΑ., Chatzinikos A. (2006). Research on vineyards located in Damasi – Tirnavos and Rapsani – Larissa. Conference on: “Reuse of urban waste on irrigation” and “Precision Agriculture”, Volos, Greece.

Sfougaris A., Tagarakis A. (2005). Effects of landscape structure and protection status on grey partridge (Perdix perdix) in Lagadas area, Northern Greece, XXVIIth Congress of the International Union of Game Biologists, Hannover, Germany.

Awards/Prizes

16/06/04: 3d prize on business planning. Firstbusinessplancontestfor youths in Thessaly. Larissa, Greece.

15/12/04:  Prizeonpanhellenicconteston business ideas “Ideapolis”. Athens, Greece.