✦ LIBER ✦
Precision agriculture in the 21st century: geospatial and information technologies in crop management, Committee on Assessing Crop Yield: Site-Specific Farming, Information Systems and Research Opportunities, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington DC, USA 1997, xii + 149 pp, price £32.95. ISBN 0-309-05893-7
✍ Scribed by Roger Plumb
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 20 KB
- Volume
- 56
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1526-498X
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✦ Synopsis
This book is the outcome of a study by the US National Research Council's Board on Agriculture that addressed four key questions: (1) How can evolving technologies aid producer decision making in agricultural crop production? (2) What are the incentives for adoption and barriers to implementation of these information technologies? (3) What are the environmental, economic and social implications of precision agriculture? (4) What are the appropriate roles for the public and private sectors in improving and disseminating these technologies? The scope of