For sustainability future agriculture is all about new technologies like GPS, RS, GIS and site specific management. However it is very difficult for small and marginal farmers to convert this old age practice and switch on to satellite farming/Precision farming, secondly the cost of the tools and implements used in Satellite farming is costly and lab to land conversion is very less.
In the very early 1990s, relatives of mine (farmers, YU) watched the weather forecasts of the UK, to be prepared. The winds, even physically, have changed.
Satelite farming will exploit those sites which are unexplored. We can adopt site specific crop management by identifying niche areas specific for particular crops and use of IT based staellite system for identification of sites suitable for different crops. Precision farming will increase adoptibillity and thereby productivity and quality
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I think it can be done and is not that expensive, the only thing needed is knowledge. I think our role, at Universities, can be exactly that, to apply our knowledge and make accessible many free tools that are available at least for general characterization of management zones using remote sensing. Using historical Landsat data, that is free, a good sequence of data can be obtained and homogenous areas characterized. There are also many processing softwares free that can be used for that purpose. Then, if some variable rate application needs to be done, management zones can be delineated in the fields, may be rectangular, that can be easily identified with a hand held GPS, and seed rates or any other product can be manually changed for each of them. Then results can be analyzed using some GIS software that are also free, such as QGIS. Of course is not as precise as other more sophisticated approaches but it could be a first step for many small farmers.
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That is a great question to get a sustainable farm which leads to monitor farms to get the best crop planting system, irrigation and fertilizer management etc. I think we can do it, but we need to make teamwork contents from electronic engineering, computer science, irrigation management and crop management. That requires expansive tools to do this work. Also, you can receive all the data on your phone App if you have any problems on the farm. Good luck.
Dear, small and marginal farmers can go for precidion farming by optimizing N management using LCC, an inexpensive tool.
That's a great question. We need to make the workshop about how they can transfer their farm from the traditional way to the modern way ( optimizing N management using LCC ) and what is the requirement to do and manage your farm remotely? We should not choose expensive tools because the farmers do not have more money to spend on new ideas, but after they are accepted the idea, we can upgrade that. When they see how you can change anything by using one key without any potential and how easy to change or manage your farm. We need to make a small frame for them to work remotely. That is the important thing for the farmer.
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