PRECISION AGRICULTURE: GLOBAL PROSPECTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS / доклад на 24 конференции IAAE, Tomorrow’s Agriculture: Incentives, Institutions, Infrastructure and Innovations, Berlin, Germany, 13-18 August 2000
Опубликовано на портале: 04-01-2004
Berlin, 2000
Тематический раздел:
Producers in industrialized countries have been inundated with ideas and information
about precision agriculture (PA) and how new site-specific management (SSM) technologies
will revolutionize their farm operations. Conjuring up Star Wars-imagery, farmers
and their computerized machinery communicate with satellites while speeding up and
down the information highway. The farm press has hailed the advent of these technologies
as a win-win situation with higher farm profits and improved environmental quality.
Certainly the potential is there for greater economic returns and better environmental
stewardship. But what exactly is precision agriculture, who is applying it, and where?
Is the technology only relevant for developed countries and are there implications
for markets? What is the likelihood that environmental benefits will be realized?
This paper addresses these questions by drawing on literature, data, and expert opinion to explore what technologies have been developed and which ones have been or are likely to be adopted, by whom, and where. It considers the environmental implications of this host of new information technologies. |

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Ключевые слова
agriculture farming new information technology precision agriculture (PA) site-specific management (SSM)
См. также:
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics.
2002.
Vol. 34.
No. 1.
P. 111-129.
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