About the Book: Precision Farming in Horticulture
Climatic variations often tend to have adverse effect on the yield and
production of crops. Efforts have, therefore, been on for harnessing this
natural resource through artificial means for increasing crop productivity. One
such technology is protected cultivation. This technique is well adopted in
Europe and USA and now China and Japan are leading in controlled sphere
production of horticultural crops. In India, the technology is making
breakthrough in Karnataka and Maharashtra in protected cultivation of pepper,
tomato, cucumber, muskmelon, baby corn etc.
Precision farming is defined as the cultivation by adopting technologies which
give maximum precision in production of a superior