Precision Farming in Digital Age Discussion 2022

Running head: PRECISION FARMING IN DIGITAL AGE
Precision Farming in the Digital Age
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Introduction:
Food is one of the integral components of life and is the very need for human existence.
As the population started growing, various limitations within the processing of food systems
have started arising including the techniques by which they are stored. With the increase in the
trend of shifting the industrialization a large group of population started shifting towards
activities creating the very need for industrialized food sectors. The consumption of foods and
their daily production have considerable impact on the environment (Poore & Nemecek, 2018).
Production of food contributes to various environmental impacts such as change in the climatic
condition, phenomenon such as acid rains and eutrophication leading to the depletion of
biodiversity. As a result of which there is a need to adopt adequate healthy supplies of food that
would help in maintain the global social economic viability. The daily production of food also
leads to considerable drainage of resources such as area of land, energy, nutrients and water.
Precision farming or in other word satellite farming is defined as a type of management concept
related to management of farm based on the concept of observation, measurement and response
to the inter-field and intra-field variability in the crops (Srbinovska et al., 2015). Precision
agricultural research helps in defining the decision support system for farm management while
optimizing the goals and preserving the resources (Schimmelpfennig, 2016). Various digital
technologies are combined with the food production system so as to reduce the environmental
impact on food that is consumed like Big Data or any type of shared data technology. This
particular report deals with the detailed analysis and identification of various ways by which
digital technology can lead to the reduction of environmental impact on the food production
system.