The 5 R’s of Precision Agriculture
Courtesy: U.S. Department of Agriculture
Precision agriculture is a management strategy that uses cutting-edge technologies and tools to gather, process and analyze information to enhance farm assessment and provide optimized agricultural input applications, considering crop and soil needs for improving productivity. Precision agriculture technologies are intended to help farmers make more efficient use of crop inputs by following the so-called 5 R’s of Precision agriculture.
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