Improving the efficiency of agriculture is a growing priority due to food security issues, environmental concerns, and economics. Precision variable rate application technology could enable increases in yield while maintaining or reducing fertiliser use. However, this requires development control algorithms which are suitable for challenges agriculture. In paper, we propose new mechanistic open...

The pronoun “precision” has been used in recent years in many fields to indicate the use of modern electronics, computer and sensor technology in agriculture and related areas. Some examples are PrecisionAgriculture, Precision-Forestry, Precision-Tillage and it is probably only a matter of time until we see names like “Precision Fisheries” and “Precision Horticulture”. To bring all these terms ...

Application of information and communication technologies in various agricultural branches is done by using the Precision Agriculture methods and approaches. Beekeeping is old and traditional branch of agriculture where still many manual operations are done to care bee colonies and observe the apiary state and conditions. Information technologies can be used in the beekeeping to partly support ...

Pedology and Precision Agriculture Laboratories, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 979, Ave de Bourgogne, SteFoy, Quebec, Canada G1W 2L4 (e-mail: [email protected]); Potato Research Centre, Agriculture and AgriFood Canada, 850, Lincoln Road, PO Box 20280, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 4Z7; and Institute of Research and Development in Agri-Environment, 2700 Einstein St., Quebec, Queb...

Agriculture in Russia has some specifics such as large distribution, inclement climate and big market competition. Appearing of resources-economy, precision and management technologies demanded from agriculture companies new planning and control methods. The paper is dedicated to assembly charts planning in agriculture with multi-agent approach. For resources distribution we used method of virt...

A heuristic optimization algorithm for adaptive wireless sensor network design and energy management for precision agriculture is presented. The algorithm takes into account application-specific requirements, communication constraints and energy conservation characteristics. Genetic algorithms are used as the optimization tool of the developed system and an appropriate fitness function is devel...

The objective of this paper was to report the development of precision agriculture for rice crop production in Taiwan during past five years. Three multi-disciplinary research teams have been organized for the purposes of developing techniques required for monitoring growth status and environmental conditions for rice crop; integrating the elements necessary for fertilization recommendation sys...

This paper gives an outline of key technologies necessary for science-based agriculture. In order to design future agriculture, present agriculture should be redesigned based on the context of smart agriculture that indicates the overall form of agriculture including a social system while the present precision agriculture shows a technical form of agriculture only. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)...