Policy Articles

Precision Agriculture in Malaysia

Ahmad Safuan Bujang, Badril Hisham Abu Bakar
2019.08.14
ABSTRACT Malaysia’s recent national agendas are primed toward achieving triple-bottom line development, in-line with principles stipulated in the SDGs. Achieving this will require an agricultural sector that is robust, efficient and cost effective. Malaysia’s agricultural sector is...
Country: Malaysia Topic: Smart agriculture
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Precision Agriculture for Rice Production in the Philippines

Jasper G. Tallada
2019.08.14
ABSTRACT The Philippine population will increase to 128 million by 2030 and 142 million by 2040 based on medium assumptions using the year 2000 census. With the new rice tarrification bill and influx of cheaper imported rice, the concomitant reduction of domestic rice prices from USD 0.80 per kg...
Country: Philippines Topic: Smart agriculture
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Precision Agriculture in Taiwan: Examples and Experiences

Charng-Pei Li, Chun-Tang Lu, Chwen-Ming Yang, Dong-Hong Wu, Ming-Hsin Lai, Ming-Hwei Yao, Wu-Huan Hsu
2019.08.14
ABSTRACT Since 1997, Taiwan has been planning for precision agriculture. In 1999, a pilot project was launched with rice as the target crop, entitled “Studies on Precision Farming System for Rice (1999-2002).” Although this four-year project cannot solve all rice production problems...
Country: Taiwan Topic: Smart agriculture
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Realization of Society 5.0 by Utilizing Precision Agriculture into Smart Agriculture in NARO, Japan

Yuji Nagasaki
2019.08.14
ABSTRACT Society 5.0 is the concept of a future industrial structure and the ideal of social system launched by Japan. The National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) challenges to realize Society 5.0 with Smart Food Value Chain of breeding, cultivation, harvest, storage, processing...
Country: Japan Topic: Smart agriculture
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Rice Precision Farming in Korea

Sang-Cheol Kim, Jae-Soo Lee, Kuk-Hwan Kim
2019.08.14
ABSTRACT The Korean agricultural situation is expected to change more rapidly in future. In particular, the globalization and expansion of food markets in the world following the expansion of market liberalization would also require a new agricultural paradigm. It is important to seek a new...
Country: Korea Topic: Smart agriculture
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