Authors : **Shraddha Mittal *Rameshwar Soni
Page Nos : 339-348
Description :
The agricultural sector has the unique ability to provide society with a positive
contribution to biodiversity whilst producing food. Agriculture is at the origin of many
ecosystems with high biodiversity and contributes to the maintenance of a diversity of
species and a large gene pool. Even if agricultural land serves first and foremost
towards the production of healthy and high quality food and renewable raw materials,
the preservation of biodiversity and sustainable agricultural activity are inextricably
linked. In such scenario precision agriculture has become a cornerstone of sustainable
agriculture, since it respects crops, soils and farmers. Sustainable agriculture seeks to
assure a continued supply of food within the ecological, economic and social limits
required to sustain production in the long term. Precision agriculture therefore seeks to
use high-tech systems in pursuit of this goal. The present paper tried to show the utility
for adoption of precision agriculture for farmers in developing country like India to
achieve efficient crop production with sustainable bio diversity conservation. Precision
agriculture collects and interprets huge amount of data from the field so as to
understand the causes of variability and propose strategies for field management,
biological species geographic distribution models, based on ecological niche concepts,
combine species presence and absence points with environmental biotic and abiotic
data, in order to generate models that describe probabilistic distributions of that
species – represented as geographical distribution maps for biodiversity management.
Keywords:
Crop production management, Environmental protection, Bio Diversity, economies of
return etc.
