Policy Articles

Smart Platform for Precision Agriculture in Thailand

Tanee Sreewongcha, Sutkhet Nakasathien
2020.07.07
ABSTRACT A SMART platform is a farming management system that monitors the variations of crop, environment and farmer practices in each farm upon a combination of satellite or drone images, sensor technologies, mobile applications, positioning technology, and the Internet of Things. The SMART...
Country: Thailand Topic: Smart agriculture
3,078
394

Biodiversity Maintained by the Traditional Tea-Grass Integrated System in Shizuoka, Japan

Yoshinobu Kusumoto
2020.07.06
ABSTRACT In Shizuoka prefecture, Japan, farmers traditionally cover furrows in green-tea fields with grass (mainly Miscanthus sinensis and Pleioblastus chino) in the autumn and winter seasons. The semi natural grasslands from where this grass is collected are called Chagusaba. The results of...
Country: Japan Topic: Eco-friendly agriculture (satoyama and satoumi)
288
165

Evaluating the Benefit of Practice for Satoyama Initiative by Applying Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

Chi-Ling Chen, Jenn-Kuo Tsai, Szu-Yang Wu, Ru-Hong Lin, Wei-Tin Huang
2020.07.06
ABSTRACT Labor intensive and periodical investigations are essentially required in the past for the evaluation of services and functions of ecosystem and its change, which resulted in much labor and time consumption with very limited frequencies. Currently, with rapid development of Information...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Eco-friendly agriculture (satoyama and satoumi)
184
153

Development of Web-Based Decision Support System for Paddy Planting Management in Tanjung Karang, Malaysia

C. Y. N. Norasma, A. R. M. Shariff
2020.07.05
ABSTRACT Precision farming or precision agriculture is a holistic system to manage the agriculture by integrating several technologies to monitor the field in an accurate way. It is also known as 3R, right Input, right location and right time. Rice has been planted widely in Malaysia. It is a...
Country: Malaysia Topic: Agricultural science policies
1,924
282

Drone Applications for Precision Agriculture and Paddy Field Management

Nobusuke Iwasaki, Naoki Ishitsuka, Toshihiro Sakamoto
2020.07.04
ABSTRACT Drone-related technologies have evolved rapidly in recent years. Since the flight performance of consumer drones has improved and become cheaper, these technologies have been widely applied to agriculture studies. For instance, drone-based remote sensing has enabled the frequent...
Country: Japan Topic: Agricultural science policies
1,851
286

Pages