Toward malaysian sustainable agriculture in 21st century

8th International Symposium of the Digital Earth

地球科学;计算机科学

Khorramnia, K.^1 ; Shariff, A.R.M.^1,2 ; Rahim, A Abdul^3 ; Mansor, S.^4

Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor 43400, Malaysia^1

Geospatial Information Science Research Center (GIS RC), Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor 43400, Malaysia^2

Land Management Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor 43400, Malaysia^3

Civil Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor 43400, Malaysia^4

关键词: Agricultural activities;    Educational policy;    Human development index;    Positioning and navigation systems;    Rubber production;    Sustainable agriculture;    Sustainable economics;    Variable rate technology;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/18/1/012142/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/18/1/012142

学科分类：计算机科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Sustainable agriculture should be able to meet various social goals and objectives so that it can be maintained for an indefinite period without significant negative impacts on environment and natural resources. A wide variety of agricultural activities are running in Malaysia. Maintaining high quality of agricultural products with lower environmental impacts through a sustainable economic viability and life satisfaction of farmers and community are important factors helping to meet sustainable agriculture. Human resources are playing key role in directing the community toward sustainable development. The trend of improving the human development index in Malaysia is highest in the East Asia and the Pacific, high human development countries and the world, since 2000. Precision agriculture is providing strong tools to achieve sustainable agriculture. Different types of sensors, positioning and navigation systems, GIS, software and variable rate technology are well known components of precision agriculture. Drones and robots are promising tools that enabling farmers and managers to collect information or perform particular actions in remote areas or tough conditions. According to a survey, forestry and timber, rubber production and oil palm estates are three main agricultural divisions that precision agriculture may improve the productivity in respect to area of cropland/worker. Main factors affecting the adoption of precision agriculture in Malaysia are: a) Political and legal supports, b) Decision support systems and user interfaces c) Experienced research team works d) National educational policy e) Success in commercialization of precision agriculture system.