Scholarly Articles

We found two articles for our group research project that may be helpful as we begin writing it. The first thing search was for basic Farming strategies to gain a better understanding of what is currently in use in today's modern world. "Precision Agriculture Concept: Distribution Pattern of Selected Soil and Crop Characteristics Influenced by Fertigation" is what we got, and although a lot of it was somewhat pointless, the section on materials and methods will be the most helpful. For this particular article it shows the amount of precision work that goes in to choosing the perfect site for planting specific crops, in this case sugar beets. "Average annual temperature of 16.7° C, annual freezing days of 76 days and the annual rainfall of 116.9 mm are climate data of experimental site." Even from that statement alone you can see how much data, and processing goes into making the food item prosper as much as possible and to its fullest potential.

The next article was titled "Bulk Soil Electrical Conductivity as an Estimator of Nutrients in

the Maize Cultivated Land" which basically used electricity to see how the well it conducted electricity and was able to provide how many nutrients were available in the soil. "Laboratory soil test is usually time consuming and laborious. Since farmers cultivate annual crops more than once a year, this leads to delay in remedial action for the coming season. Hence, rapid measurement and monitoring of soil nutrient variability is needed to satisfy the precision farming requirements." I liked this quote because it shows that the process is in an effort to speed up the process of determining the best area of land for the crop, which would be very important to increase production of the specific food product.

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