Abstract:
This paper summarizes the research target of recent precision agriculture and its technical ideas and discusses the direction of technical innovations for the supporting technologies. Some proposals for the applied research in the country are presented. Recent research on precision agriculture in the world is still concentrated on precision farming for crop production. The translation of the phrase “precision agriculture” into Chinese shall be implicated in the Site Specific Crop Management. Following the rapid application of information technology to the agricultural sector, the ideas for precision management of agricultural resources and production would be expanded into all fields of agricultural system, such as precision facilities horticulture, precision raising, precision processing to keep high productivity, high efficiency, low cost and less environmental pollution as well as with high valueadded technology,etc. Then a real precision agriculture system will be established to support overall sustainable agriculture development based on the new information and biological technology revolution.