Top Tech Trends in Agriculture: A Glimpse into the Future of Farming
Top Tech Trends in Agriculture: A Glimpse into the Future of Farming 1. Precision Agriculture An approach to agricultural management that uses information technology to ensure that crops and soils receive what they need for optimal health and productivity. Rather than applying the same inputs across the entire region, the approach aims to manage and distribute them on a site-specific basis to maximize long-term cost benefits as well as prevent any wastage. Like conservation agriculture, PF is a combination of different technologies rather than a lump-sum approach and allows site specific management (SSM) to use their resources efficiently and achieve economic benefits. Understanding and gaining more knowledge about natural variability within a farm is one of the important aspects of PF. Over the past few decades, several technologies have been developed for PF; They can be divided into 'soft' and 'hard'. Soft precision agriculture relies on visual observation of crops