Is it viable to adopt precision agriculure technologies in developing countries?
Hello! I think it is possible. I live in Southern Brazil, and near from where I live there is a large company named Stara specialized in precision agriculture.
To advance and keep up with current demand, it is necessary for Brazil to significantly increase production by overcoming the trends of an apparent paradox of increased production with a reduction in working mass and a restriction in increasing cultivated area, and
increased workload for control and monitoring of the production process and data availability requirements for end product tracking.
In this sense, there is no way to give up technologies and knowledge of automation and precision agriculture that improve and make the production process in the field more efficient to expressively improve both qualitative and quantitative performance.
Therefore, it is also a strategy of knowledge building and skills building that promote the technological change of agricultural production.
Hello! Yes! is possible. I live in Argentina and been working in precision agriculture applications using remote sensing, and other geotechnologies for more than ten years. At different levels, buy many farmers are adopting at least some tools.
Regards,
Soledad
HI,
Precision agriculture is already being followed in developing countries; I doubt if they know what they are doing is precision agriculture, though. It helps in maintaining optimum viability and enhances productivity without affecting the nature's balance. This technology is the right blend of science and nature.
Dear all
Regarding the reply posted by Navnit, I think that Precision agriculture, as a concept, has been around some time now, so I think more or less anyone involved in anything agriculture-related, at least in Argentina, knows about it. Even if some of them don´t have access to all the technology or knowledge needed to implement it to the full extent.
Regards,
Soledad
yes, if the fields are very large as in north America and in Europe where the concept of precision agriculture has been developed. The problem in Africa and the Arab world is the fragmentation and the small size of fields. Keep in mind investissment vs production.
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