Emerging Line of Research Approach in Precision Agriculture: An Insight Study

Abstract

The present state of agriculture and its demand is very much different than what it used to be two decades back. Hence, Precision Agriculture (PA) is more in demand to address this challenging demand. With consistent pressure to develop multiple products over the same agricultural land, farmers find PA's adoption the best rescue-based solution with restricted resources. PA accelerates the yield and potentially assists in catering up the demand of scarcity of demands of food. With the increasing adoption of PA-based technologies over farming, there are best possibilities to explore efficient farming practices and better decision-making facilitated by real-time data availability. There isan evolution of various novel technologies to boost agricultural performance, i.e. variable rate technology, Geomapping, remote sensing, automated steering system, and satellite positioning system. Apart from this, it is also observed that Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) have been slowly penetrating this area to acceleratePA's technological advancement. It is noticed that the adoption of sensing technology is a common factor in almost all the techniques used in PA. However, there is no clear idea about the most dominant approach in this regard. Therefore, this paper discusses existing approaches concerning standard conventional PA and sensing-based PA using WSN. The study contributes towards some impressive learning outcomes to state that WSN and IoT are extensive to boost PA.

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“…Agriculture is a fundamental pillar in a country's economy and society; therefore, increasing agricultural productivity through cutting-edge technology contributes to economic progress and the feeding of its inhabitants [1]. In this perspective, technological advancement in precision agriculture (PA) has been accelerated by the Internet of things (IoT), wireless sensor networks (WSN), and even 5G networks [2,3], because almost all techniques used in PA have sensing technology as a common factor [4,5]. PA produces more food with limited resources such as water and soil [6][7][8], effectively increasing the quality and yield of crops [9], a remarkable fact considering the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) states that the human population level on a global scale will increase from eight billion inhabitants in 2025 to nine billion, six hundred million in 2050 [10].…”