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Role of Precision Agriculture in Sustaining Crop Production


Amrendra Kumar, Himanshu Prakash, Sunil Kumar, Vikram Bharti, Rama Shankar Singh, Harendra Singh
Pages: 63-80
ISBN: 978-93-5834-247-5


Current Innovations in Agronomy (Volume -8)

Current Innovations in Agronomy
(Volume - 8)

Abstract

Previously Agriculture was meant to produce food for self and family from local varieties with the help of indigenous resources like farm manure and compost, after that the introduction of high-yielding crop varieties and fertilizer; the green revolution enabled our country to achieve self-sufficiency in food security by boosting crop production by many folds. After fifty years of green revolution crops yield have leveled off and even declined for some places, with also have negative impacts on ecology that are necessary to overcome in the present situation to make our resources sustainable by reducing erosion, nitrate leaching, emission of GHGs, and residual effects of agrochemicals. The sustainable agriculture approach leads us to fulfill the needs of the present generation without mining the resource base of the future generation, it also helps in replenishing nutrients, preventing soil degradation, and controlling weeds, pests, and diseases in the most suitable way. Precision agriculture is the best way to precisely control the inputs by using its different components like Remote sensing, GIS, precision planting with VRT, real-time N application using LCC, SPAD, Green Seeker, Nutrient Expert, Precision land leveling and other sensor-based technology. It has demonstrated potentialities for improving crop yields and increasing resource-use efficiency in the current situation.

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