Overview

Agriculture is one of the human societies’ most crucial activities, enabling basic requirements for human livelihood, survival and development. A recent study done by FAO authorities has found an estimated increase in the world population to 9.20 billion by 2050, needing an increase in the current food production by about 60%. Precision Agriculture is one solution that can address this problem.

Modern agriculture or Precision Agriculture needs to adopt high-intensity cultivation, effective water use, and high-yielding varieties to achieve increased production with quality. Agriculture's role is to fulfill within a context of environmentally sustainable and climatic change adaptable demand for food production to meet the needs of the ever-expanding human population. Remote Sensing techniques are applied in the field of Agriculture to achieve Precision Agriculture and to overcome some of the challenges listed above.

Precision Agriculture enables optimum resource utilization. Further, Precision Agriculture also helps Growers focus on needed interventions, thereby saving time, effort, and energy. Precision Agriculture provides scientific inputs based on geospatial indicators customized to each field of production. Precision Agriculture also helps to compare different grower plots and enhances productivity. Precision Agriculture being in the form of Smart Agriculture, is the way for growers to achieve enhanced productivity with optimum natural resource use.