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Demistifying Precision Agriculture

Many at times, farmers in their quest to becoming top farmers strive to minimize cost while increasing their productivity. This is the big reason why every astute farmer MUST embrace the concept of Precision Agriculture.  I will try and put this in the simplest way possible; Precision agriculture is the approach to farming where crop and soil receives exact amount of inputs where it is needed such that inputs are minimized while the productivity or yield is maximized. This is achieved through use of information technology (IT) Internet of Things (IoT), big data science among other state of the art technological advancements. The advancements in global positioning systems (GPS) has greatly revolutionized precision agriculture. Gps is actually considered as the backbone to precision agriculture. From gps, systems such as Auto guidance and auto steering has been developed, advanced and greatly used in farm machinery. Modern farm machinery are fitted with various kinds of d...