How can we use precision agriculture to achieve less waste, less environmental impact, and more yield?
How can we use precision agriculture to achieve less waste, less environmental impact, and more yield?
Precision farming technology today includes a super accurate (up to 2 cm) GPS system, a self-steering system for agricultural vehicles, section control of seeders, fertilizer spreaders and sprayers and site-specific crop monitoring and yield measurement. In short, the goal of any new precision farming development is to reduce inputs - less fuel, less labor time, less fertilizer and crop protection products - for the sake of profit for the farmer, the environment and the consumer.
"Increasing efficiency can, in the short term, mean producing more with the same amount of crop protection agents and fertilizers. We are confident that precision agriculture will mean more homogenous harvests with better quality products, which will benefit both the farmer and the consumer. By working together with the food and retail industry, we hope to better reward farmers, who deliver a more sustainable and quality product in this way, for their efforts and thus achieve a more sustainable agriculture and horticulture as well as a more sustainable food chain, because they are linked."
Yannick Hardy, Product Manager Pomagro
