Integrating Technology Into Farming

Abstract

Precision farming, often known as digital agriculture, minimizes production costs by identifying both temporal and geographical changes within fields to achieve the highest levels of productivity and profitability, sustainability, and land resource conservation. The need to alter agricultural management techniques to sustainably safeguard natural resources including water, air, and soil quality while retaining economic advantages is being driven by the general public's growing environmental consciousness. It involves applying inputs (such insecticides and fertilizers) in the proper amounts, at the appropriate times, and locations. “Site-specific administration” is the term used to describe this kind of management. With almost a third of the world's food requiring irrigation for production, the productivity of the global food supply has increased in recent decades, mostly due to the expansion of irrigation systems. Global market rivalry for agricultural commodities, in general, puts traditional agricultural systems' economic sustainability in jeopardy and necessitates the creation of innovative, flexible production systems. With a focus on the methodical operationalization process, the goal of this chapter is to suggest a technology driven farming. The chapter intends to highlight how precision agriculture (PA) can facilitate farmers to use new technologies to make their farms more productive without hurting the quality of their crops or land. The chapter discusses the current status and opportunities for digitalizing agriculture sector.