Adoption and perspective of precision farming (PF) in Germany: results of several surveys among the different agricultural target groups

摘要

The adoption of Precision Farming (PF) in Germany has been studied through several mail surveys, telephone and personal interviews with farmers, advisors, teachers and representatives of the PF industry. The results of all surveys indicate that stillthere are various obstacles to PF. Most of the interviewed farmers still hesitate to introduce PF-techniques, mainly because of the high costs for the technology. Most of the interviewed teachers at vocational and technical schools stated that PF is notyet a subject in courses. The interviews with the advisors show that most of them do not offer any advisory service in the field of PF. Finally the results of the interviews with representatives of the agricultural engineering industry confirm the statements from the other surveys.