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Precision agriculture, also called as precision farming, prescription farming, or site-specific management, is a management strategy that utilizes detailed, site-specific information for management of production inputs such as seeds, fertilizers, and pesticides. The optimization of production inputs within small areas of the field is based on the crop and soil characteristics unique to each part of the field. Application of production inputs only as and where needed for the most economic crop production is the principle behind precision agriculture. The tools and technologies that are used to implement precision agriculture include geographic information systems (GIS), global positioning system (GPS), variable rate technology (VRT), and remote sensing (RS). The management decisions can be applied in a more precise manner by using VRT techniques based on the information collected from GIS in combination with GPS and RS. The agricultural crop production costs and crop and environmental damage can be potentially reduced by following precision farming.
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Reddy, P.P. (2017). Precision Agriculture. In: Agro-ecological Approaches to Pest Management for Sustainable Agriculture. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4325-3_19
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