Precision Agriculture Adoption : Challenges of Indian Agriculture

Abstract

World demand for food is anticipated to increase by 70 percent contrary to this, agriculture input equation is changing in the form of decline in the agriculture labour, shrinking agriculture productive land, raising temperature, shifting weather patterns and land degradation; challenging every stake holder in agriculture sector in meeting food requirement of future. Precision farming can bring in some solution with its integrated technology-communicationmanagement approach to several needful decisions in agriculture production cycle. Socio-economic environment is pushing hard this technology adoption due to its massive benefit in agriculture productivity. However, its required to study is Indian agriculture sector is ready for precision technology adoption? Which are the challenges creating obstacles? Any technology transition is possible only when we understand and addresses these challenges. This study is aims at addressing these research questions.