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Why Precision farming?
In India after green revolution,farmers and scientists realized the fact that the soil is contaminated by excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides.The natural fertility of soil is lost by the excessive usage of chemicals.The effective usage of water is not happening in the farming method used during Green revolution.Majority of water is wasted and the result is less efficient resource management.Precision farming is the best practice to solve such issues.It provides the best resource management methods to eliminate the wastage of resources and thus the pollution to soil and water can be reduced significantly.
Even though various modern farming techniques like drip irrigation,integrated pest management,planning of farm land,Soil fertility checking etc may come as part of precision farming,the real concept of precision farming is outside these domains.The real concept of precision farming is based on GPS.The Global Positioning System enables the farmers to be precise in terms of Time and Space.
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How Precision farming work?
1)The GPS aided precision farming method enables farmer to divide the farm land to several small and equal parts.
2)Soil samples are collected by a tractor which is connected to GPS and computer.It collects soil samples from all divisions
2)Soil fertility is analysed and the result is uploaded to computer program.The program maps the fertility of each divisions accordingly a fertility map is prepared.
3)Fertilization is managed by program based on soil fertility map prepared.Computer program decides the quantity of fertilizer to be applied in each parts of the land.This helps in huge saving of cost for fertilization.
4)During harvest,the data is uploaded to computer program division wise.This helps in harvest mapping.
5)Watering is planned by program based on the water content in the soil.
6)The computer program automates almost all activities in the farm land.This helps in huge saving of labour.
7)Round the clock working of farm equipments is possible.Hence time is saved considerably.
Reducing the wastage of resources and increasing the efficiency of farming can help farmers to more revenue.Even though the cost of implementing precision farming is high,if you consider the benefits and the profits,it is cost effective.
Importance of Precision farming
Today,the conventional method of farming is less profitable in India.Low fertility of soil and increased farming cost makes farming very difficult and low profitable.But by using latest farming technologies like Precision farming,we can overcome such difficulties.Many new generation farmers got great results by adopting precision farming techniques.They utilized localized forms of Precision farming by implementing the concept of Precision farming in their own way.They got two to three times more profit compared to traditional farming.So in India,the poor growth rate of farming can be improved by adopting precision farming techniques.
Even though some farmers started to use precision farming methods,majority of farmers are still not aware about this technology and its implementation.Lack of knowledge is the main reason for the less popularity of Precision farming in India.The solution is to obtain more knowledge about this technology from the nearby Agricultural universities and from the people who already implemented this technology successfully.As more and more farmers start to implement precision farming,the profitability of farming sector will surely improve and efficient usage of resources will happen.This will result in better environment and food security.So it is time for us to have a detailed look at this technology which will be there in coming posts....
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