Impact of precision agriculture on environment

As one of the direct output of Precision Agriculture (PA), environmental impact plays a very important part in the development of PA. The paper mainly analyzed the present status of PA on the management of nutrient, maintenance of water and soil and pesticide sprinkling, etc. Based on discussing the problems of research on the environmental impact of PA, the paper points out enacting strict environmental regulations, strengthening the orientated research and intensifying the evaluation of environmental impacts of PA are the main research direction to promote the research on the environmental impact of PA.