Modern Technology and Scope of Precision Agriculture (PA)

Abstract

Traditional agriculture practices are time consuming, less productive and uneconomic. Due to uncontrolled use of resources and inputs frequently occurred by farmers caused environmental degradation, land loss and economic loss of farmers. Smart farming known as Precision agriculture which uses the modern technology and tools such as Global position system, Geographic information system, remote sensing and information and communication in integrations provides detail information about crop growth, soil conditions, nutrient level, irrigation systems as data sets which helps to take decisions in right time so that it increases the crop productivity. The use of tools like GPS, GIS and Remote sensing optimize the use of natural resources and inputs for a given crop production and quality. Agriculture becomes more productive and consistent by digital technology and effective use of resources and time. The main gist of this study is to present the scope and implications of the precision agriculture (PA) in future.