Farm Management System: Precision Farming (PF)

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1. Introduction:
The technology within agriculture production system has changed very rapidly over the last few years. Many of these changes have brought about new technology by known as a name of precision farming in the market (Arnholt, 2001). The Precision farming technology was available in the market the late 1980s (Watcharaanantapong, 2012; Tiwari, & Jaga, 2012). Precision farming differs than previous technologies which already exist in the agriculture sector. Precision farming (PF) is a combination of information and technology which is based on farm management system to analyze, identify and manage variability within fields for increasing the profitability, maintaining sustainability and protecting environmental resources. It gives …show more content…

For example of India, PF technology is developing included the availability of higher resolution and multispectral sensor data. The adoption of PF is becoming more popular for getting high-value commercial crops in India. However, the goal might not be only maximum yields but also give some financial advantages to farmers (Tiwari, & Jaga, 2012). The concept of PF is growing rapidly in developed countries as a tool to fight the challenges of agriculture sustainability. From last few years, Indian farms have experienced some kind of precision agriculture technology. These days India has a huge challenge to meet the demand of food 480 million tons by the year 2050. PF became a more accepted way of crop production but farmers have a lack of capital to buy technical agriculture equipment and lack of knowledge (Mandal, & Maity, 2013).
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It is designed to support the use of feature attributes and location data to produce maps. Computerized GIS maps differ from conventional maps which contain on important function. The agricultural GIS consists of various information layers such as yield maps, soil survey maps, rainfall, crops soil nutrient levels and pests. It helps to convert the maps into digital images form of the land use and vegetation cover. Geographic Information System farming database provides information about soil types, surface drainage, subsurface drainage, field topography, soil testing, chemical application rates, irrigation and crop yield (Tran, & Nguyen, 2006; Mandal, & Maity,

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