How can precision farming work on a small scale? A systematic literature review

Mizik, Tamás

doi:10.1007/s11119-022-09934-y

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“…DA can require large upfront investments as well as significant time to adopt and troubleshoot, which can hinder its adoption. , Therefore, DA is more often associated with large-scale operations, partially because those operations are more able to afford such technologies and systems. ,, Additionally, much of the digital agricultural technology available has been developed for larger farms, which means that tools tailored to the needs of small and medium farm enterprises may not be available …”

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“…138,145 Therefore, DA is more often associated with large-scale operations, partially because those operations are more able to afford such technologies and systems. 135,146,147 Additionally, much of the digital agricultural technology available has been developed for larger farms, which means that tools tailored to the needs of small and medium farm enterprises may not be available. 148 Additional barriers beyond the financial feasibility must be overcome before farmers adopt DA practices.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Decarbonization of Agriculture: The Greenhouse Gas Impacts and Economics of Existing and Emerging Climate-Smart Practices

Kazimierczuk,

Barrows,

Olarte

et al. 2023

ACS Eng. Au

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The worldwide emphasis on reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has increased focus on the potential to mitigate emissions through climate-smart agricultural practices, including regenerative, digital, and controlled environment farming systems. The effectiveness of these solutions largely depends on their ability to address environmental concerns, generate economic returns, and meet supply chain needs. In this Review, we summarize the state of knowledge on the GHG impacts and profitability of these three existing and emerging farming systems. Although we find potential for CO2 mitigation in all three approaches (depending on site-specific and climatic factors), we point to the greater level of research covering the efficacy of regenerative and digital agriculture in tackling non-CO2 emissions (i.e., N2O and CH4), which account for the majority of agriculture’s GHG footprint. Despite this greater research coverage, we still find significant methodological and data limitations in accounting for the major GHG fluxes of these practices, especially the lifetime CH4 footprint of more nascent climate-smart regenerative agriculture practices. Across the approaches explored, uncertainties remain about the overall efficacy and persistence of mitigationparticularly with respect to the offsetting of soil carbon sequestration gains by N2O emissions and the lifecycle emissions of controlled environment agriculture systems compared to traditional systems. We find that the economic feasibility of these practices is also system-specific, although regenerative agriculture is generally the most accessible climate-smart approach. Robust incentives (including carbon credit considerations), investments, and policy changes would make these practices more financially accessible to farmers.

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Section: Results: Literature Review Findingsmentioning

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Section: Ivii Economic Impactsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decarbonization of Agriculture: The Greenhouse Gas Impacts and Economics of Existing and Emerging Climate-Smart Practices

Kazimierczuk,

Barrows,

Olarte

et al. 2023

ACS Eng. Au

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“…These rapid climate changes radiations continue to adversely impact rice production throughout growing stages based on different abiotic factors, such as rainfall, drought, temperature, flooding, and solar [32]. Precision farming is based on the observing, measuring, and responding to the variability in crop fields for strategic management [1,5,33]. It entails applying inputs when and where needed as means of sustaining crop production.…”

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Smart Rice Precision Farming Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Process and Architecture

Alfa¹,

Alhassan²,

Olaniyi³

et al. 2023

Sustainable Rice Production - Challenges, Strategies and Opportunities

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Smart farming integrates information, communication, and control technologies in agricultural practices. Recently, crop enterprise management through smart precision farming technologies are antidotes to uncontrollable soil and environmental factors compounded by climate change. Farm production planning utilizes enormous data generated from the field by human agents and IoT devices, but is often unreliable and inaccurate. These cause low yield, high losses, inferior quality of farm produce, overuse or underuse of fertilizers, increased costs, and inefficient farm management. Traditionally, analyzing rice cropping yields is time-inefficient and tasking, which led to quicker IoT adoption. Aside insufficient data sharing infrastructure, data privacy problem is widespread The blockchain technology is useful for verifying the reliability, accuracy, and authenticity of IoT data generated from fields for the production planning. In the future, dynamic systems (smart rice farming) and model-based control systems can be applied to understand the physical process and valuable factors of production. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art process and architectural survey on impacts of uncontrollable environmental factors, smart precision framework, security and privacy architectures or solutions for improving rice crop production. Again, a new taxonomy is developed to guide researchers, advance the course of rice production, and improve yields across sub-Saharan Africa.

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“…Innovations and growing efficiency in agriculture play a major role in increasing the potential for food and fuel production and resolving the conflict between the multifunctional use of agricultural products [8]. Moreover, a recent review study [9] concluded that many elements of precision technologies can be applied by small scale farms typical in Kosovo.…”

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Preferences and knowledge of farmers and internet-orientated population about renewable energy sources in Kosovo

Pestisha

Bai

2023

IRASE

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Our results introduce the preferences and attitudes of farmers and the internet-orientated population regarding renewable energy sources (RES) in Kosovo. The research included 243 internet-orientated participants and 30 farmers. The data was gathered through questionnaires (in both groups) and deep interviews (just in farmers). The results showed that the awareness of RES was high for especially solar, wind and hydro energy, the relationship among them was very strong. It was justified that firewood was typically used by respondents with low income, but not considered as renewable energy source, similarly to Hungary and the USA. A special feature of Kosovo is that electricity has very high importance for the man in the street, even for heating. Better education, higher income and environmental-consciousness definitely support better knowledge of RES, similarly to international tendencies. Males and employed participants had more knowledge about RES than females, or unemployed ones. Moreover, the results showed that the participants prefer environment rather than convenience, which is also typical of less wealthy countries. Our results might be useful as a typical less developed country case study for international comparison and helps to eliminate the unknown willingness in RES for the development of future agricultural strategies in Kosovo.

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How can precision farming work on a small scale? A systematic literature review

Cited by 57 publications

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Decarbonization of Agriculture: The Greenhouse Gas Impacts and Economics of Existing and Emerging Climate-Smart Practices

Decarbonization of Agriculture: The Greenhouse Gas Impacts and Economics of Existing and Emerging Climate-Smart Practices

Smart Rice Precision Farming Schemes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Process and Architecture

Preferences and knowledge of farmers and internet-orientated population about renewable energy sources in Kosovo

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