Smart Farming Report: Analysis of Benefits and Challenges

This report provides an overview of smart farming, discussing its impact on modern agriculture. It highlights the utilization of technologies like geo-positioning systems and sensors for optimizing farming practices, including irrigation and planting decisions. The report emphasizes the role of smart farming in enhancing efficiency and addressing the needs of a growing global population. It acknowledges the potential drawbacks, such as reduced labor needs and the economic implications for rural areas. The report concludes that the advantages of smart farming, particularly in increasing food production, outweigh the disadvantages. The report also references studies that support the claims made in the report.

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Smart farming has been observed to be totally altering the specific way all the several
farmers manage both the animals of farm as well as farmland. Smart farming is mostly
involves the utilisation of satellites driven systems of geo-positioning as well as sensors that
can be detecting all the several nutrients and water within the soil (Wolfert et al., 2017). This
specific technology is known to be enabling all the several planters, tractors as well as
harvesters in making several decisions regarding what must be actually planted or rather in
knowing how much to be actually irrigated. As this specific technology is seen to be
progressing, equipment will be actually be ultimately tailor a number of several decisions on
a basis of metre. It has been observed that both the technologies involving the farm as well as
the genome scale ones are highly boosting the efficiency of the full modern farming which is
highly essential for feeling a highly growing set of population for reaching about 10billion by
the year 2050.
However, one thing is to be well remembered that there are some problems. In a
number of poorer areas of the world, smart farming is considered to be much less essential
rather than education, governance of sound and healthcare. Smart farming needs very much
less labour of human (Jhuria, Kumar & Borse, 2013). For all the several countries in the
particular world of industry, this incrementing automation will be actually meaning the
continued lowering or the declining of the rural life. The particular issue of labour us
considered to be much more essential for economy as there are a number of areas in the
South where there is very few urban opportunities of job.
It can be said that smart farming does not outweigh the negative consequences to a
great extent because the advantages of smart farming are much more than that of the
disadvantages or the negative impact as per the discussion done in the upper section. Smart
farming is helping a lot in feeding a maximum of the incrementing population.

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References
Wolfert, S., Ge, L., Verdouw, C., & Bogaardt, M. J. (2017). Big data in smart farming–a
review. Agricultural Systems, 153, 69-80.
Jhuria, M., Kumar, A., & Borse, R. (2013, December). Image processing for smart farming:
Detection of disease and fruit grading. In 2013 IEEE Second International
Conference on Image Information Processing (ICIIP-2013) (pp. 521-526). IEEE.