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Trends in the Use of Webapps in Agriculture: A Systematic Review

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ICT for Agriculture and Environment (CITAMA2019 2019)

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Currently, the use of technology in agriculture is increasing, playing a fundamental role. Its use is becoming more and more widespread as farmers’ demands grow. The employment of WebApp is increasingly transforming the way in which information is disseminated and obtained in the agricultural sector. In this sense, this work presents a systematic review of the literature on the WebApp’s tendency in agriculture. Its objective was to identify in which phases of the crop cycle it has the most technological support, Web or mobile, and what functionalities the applications carry out, as well as to detect the tendency of use by the farmer. Accordingly, tools were used that allow us to make descriptive statistical metrics, where they proved that, due to their versatility and multiplatform, the web applications are fulfilling this objective, covering in its entirety all the phases of the crop. The countries that most often use them are Spain, Mexico, Colombia and the US.

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  1. Escuela de Ingeniería en Computación e Informática, Facultad de Ciencias Agrarias, Universidad Agraria del Ecuador, Av. 25 de Julio y Pio Jaramillo, 09-04-100, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Mariuxi Tejada-Castro, Carlota Delgado-Vera, Mayra Garzón-Goya & Andrea Sinche-Guzmam

  2. Agrosoft, Urdesa Central, Circunvalaciòn Sur 1004 e Ilanes, Guayaquil, Ecuador

    Xavier Cárdenas-Rosales

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  1. Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain

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  2. Departamento de Filología Moderna, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo, Spain

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Tejada-Castro, M., Delgado-Vera, C., Garzón-Goya, M., Sinche-Guzmam, A., Cárdenas-Rosales, X. (2019). Trends in the Use of Webapps in Agriculture: A Systematic Review. In: Valencia-García, R., Alcaraz-Mármol, G., Cioppo-Morstadt, J., Vera-Lucio, N., Bucaram-Leverone, M. (eds) ICT for Agriculture and Environment. CITAMA2019 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 901. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10728-4_14

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