Precision Farming – tool for efficient use of natural resources

2. Introduction
"Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy" said Mahatma Gandhi five decades ago. Even today as we are in 21st millennium, the situation is still same, with almost the entire economy being sustained by agriculture. Land is precious natural resource for agriculture and per capita availability of land has decreased drastically from 0.46 ha in 1951 to 0.15 ha in 1996-97. This indicates need to increase productivity of existing land by increasing number of crops or improving the input utilization like fertilizer, herbicides, pesticides, irrigation etc. However, in post green-revolution agricultural growth became static.
Management technologies which are considered to be applied uniformly over larger areas may not help us to increase yield because of variation in micro-climate, socio-economics of farmers and soil variability at micro-level to apply input resources accordingly. In order to tackle......

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