HOW DIGITAL REVOLUTION IN FARMING SYSTEMS CAN BOOST PRODUCTIVITY?
How digital revolution in farming systems can boost productivity... Adopting precision farming techniques could be a paradigm shift in farmer’s perception from production to productivity and to profitability... With increasing population, urbanisation and contagious depletion of natural resources, there has to be a paradigm shift in farmer’s perception from production to productivity and to profitability. In this present scenario, the major challenge arising are shrinking land and depleting water and other related resources in agriculture. There is need for promoting farmer friendly location specific production system management technologies in a concerted manner to achieve vertical growth in horticulture production dully ensuring quality of produce and better remuneration per unit of area with judicious use of natural resources. In this endeavour, precision farming aims to have efficient utilisation of resources per unit of time and area for achieving targeted production of hortic...