FARMER PERCEPTIONS OF PRECISION AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY BENEFITS

Indexing Soil Conservation: Farmer Perceptions of Agroforestry Benefits

Soil erosion poses economic and environmental concerns in many tropical uplands. Agroforestry has been proposed as a sustainable land use that can mitigate soil erosion and promote the economic welfare of small farmers. To evaluate such claims, we must (a) develop a composite measure of effectiveness, such as a soil conservation index, and (b) define it in terms understood by the farmers who ul...

ICT in Precision Agriculture – diffusion of technology

Precision Agriculture (PA) is the management of spatial and temporal variability of the fields. This management concept incorporates a range of management as well as ICT tools to assess and treat the variability within the field. The adoption and diffusion of PA is discussed in this chapter. PA has been practiced over the last 15 years mostly in North America and Northern Europe. Despite its pr...

Intensity of Precision Agriculture Technology Adoption by Cotton Producers

Many studies on the adoption of precision technologies have generally used logit models to explain the adoption behavior of individuals. This study investigates factors affecting the intensity of precision agriculture technologies adopted by cotton farmers. Particular attention is given to the role of spatial yield variability on the number of precision farming technologies adopted, using a cou...

Sustainable Intensive Agriculture: High Technology and Environmental Benefits

Application of Gis and Gps in Precision Agriculture (a Review)

Agriculture is a complex system science and the knowledge of it is consisting of much concepts and relationships. Examinations in connection with site-specific farming have been carried out by our institute since 1998. Precision farming is a way of agricultural production, which takes into account the in-field variability, a technology where the application-seeding, nutrient replacement, sprayi...