Hightech Interventions in Horticulture Crops and Their Impact on Productivity and Resource Use
Keywords:
Agriculture, GPS, GIS, Variable Rate Technology (VRT), India, Jain Irrigation Systems, Mango, and OnionAbstract
Technologies for cultivation of crops have been changing over the years. Adherence to the principles of conservation, high input-use efficiency and higher productivity with optimum inputs and the idea of crop production as a business venture; are together leading to the increased adoption of high-tech crop production practices. Now there is more Government support to the small farmers to acquire technologies like drip irrigation, fertilization and protected structures for climate control systems. Among the different inputs to crop production; water and fertilizer - the two major components of high-tech cultivation - assume highest priority by virtue of the fact that the country has shortage for both and both are essential for any type of crops. This paper attempts to study the developments that has been happening over last 10 years in regard to use of technology to derive maximum utility from their less input by Precision Farming which use GPS, Remote Sensing, GIS, etc.
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