Possible adoptionof precision agriculature for developing countries at the threshold of the new millennium

摘要

The concept of precision agriculture (PA) is becoming an attractive idea in managing natural resources and realizing modern sustainable development of agriculture based on informationtechnology. It is bringing agriculture into the digital and information age. The practice has smoothly extended into some developing countries. The basic principle of managing soil and crop variability within a field is cdertainly not new. It was named "intensive and meticulous cultivation" by the Chinese people and has been long regarded as the cream of Chinese conventional agriculture. Toward the new millennium, China is preparing to follow the experience of the developed world and start to investigate the new technology. This apepr describes a thought of the possible adoption of precision agriculture for developing countries and ideas in conducting the practice in China.