SMART FARMING: COUNTRIES UNVEILTHE TECHNICAL POSSIBILITIES WITH INNOVATIVE IDEAS

摘要

Amajor theme at Agritechnica 2013 was optimizing farming practices. It's also why exhibition organizers created Smart Farming - an area of the show that spotlights innovations from around the globe. "Smart Farming should be considered a toolbox that consists not only of software solutions, but also of aids of every kind," says Klaus Erdle, who heads the Smart Farming initiative.According to Erdle, a large number of precision farming systems have been offered to farmers for collecting information about their operations. Yet, there's been a lack of solutions to support the turning of that data into practical resolutions."Smart Farming should help farmers make decisions to improve their production," he says. "Software tools should support producers by helping to interpret soil maps or crop data offered by satellite pictures or sensor data."