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Precision Agriculture for Crop and Livestock Farming—Brief Review

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Precision agriculture has the potential to contribute to the broader objective of meeting the growing demand for food, ensuring the sustainability of primary production, based on a more accurate and resource-efficient approach to crop and livestock management. The aim of this paper c...

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Autores principales: Monteiro, António, Santos, Sérgio, Gonçalves, Pedro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8388655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34438802
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11082345
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: Precision agriculture has the potential to contribute to the broader objective of meeting the growing demand for food, ensuring the sustainability of primary production, based on a more accurate and resource-efficient approach to crop and livestock management. The aim of this paper consists of a brief review of the recent scientific and technological tools and sensors in precision agriculture and their application in crop and livestock farming. This literature review allowed us to realize that precision agriculture has been proven to be a highly researched and constantly evolving area due to the needs of farmers to use resources in a more optimized way. ABSTRACT: In the last few decades, agriculture has played an important role in the worldwide economy. The need to produce more food for a rapidly growing population is creating pressure on crop and animal production and a negative impact to the environment. On the other hand, smart farming technologies are becoming increasingly common in modern agriculture to assist in optimizing agricultural and livestock production and minimizing the wastes and costs. Precision agriculture (PA) is a technology-enabled, data-driven approach to farming management that observes, measures, and analyzes the needs of individual fields and crops. Precision livestock farming (PLF), relying on the automatic monitoring of individual animals, is used for animal growth, milk production, and the detection of diseases as well as to monitor animal behavior and their physical environment, among others. This study aims to briefly review recent scientific and technological trends in PA and their application in crop and livestock farming, serving as a simple research guide for the researcher and farmer in the application of technology to agriculture. The development and operation of PA applications involve several steps and techniques that need to be investigated further to make the developed systems accurate and implementable in commercial environments.
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spelling pubmed-83886552021-08-27 Precision Agriculture for Crop and Livestock Farming—Brief Review Monteiro, António Santos, Sérgio Gonçalves, Pedro Animals (Basel) Review SIMPLE SUMMARY: Precision agriculture has the potential to contribute to the broader objective of meeting the growing demand for food, ensuring the sustainability of primary production, based on a more accurate and resource-efficient approach to crop and livestock management. The aim of this paper consists of a brief review of the recent scientific and technological tools and sensors in precision agriculture and their application in crop and livestock farming. This literature review allowed us to realize that precision agriculture has been proven to be a highly researched and constantly evolving area due to the needs of farmers to use resources in a more optimized way. ABSTRACT: In the last few decades, agriculture has played an important role in the worldwide economy. The need to produce more food for a rapidly growing population is creating pressure on crop and animal production and a negative impact to the environment. On the other hand, smart farming technologies are becoming increasingly common in modern agriculture to assist in optimizing agricultural and livestock production and minimizing the wastes and costs. Precision agriculture (PA) is a technology-enabled, data-driven approach to farming management that observes, measures, and analyzes the needs of individual fields and crops. Precision livestock farming (PLF), relying on the automatic monitoring of individual animals, is used for animal growth, milk production, and the detection of diseases as well as to monitor animal behavior and their physical environment, among others. This study aims to briefly review recent scientific and technological trends in PA and their application in crop and livestock farming, serving as a simple research guide for the researcher and farmer in the application of technology to agriculture. The development and operation of PA applications involve several steps and techniques that need to be investigated further to make the developed systems accurate and implementable in commercial environments. MDPI 2021-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8388655/ /pubmed/34438802 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani11082345 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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