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“Precision farming” focuses mainly on arable farming (e.g. site-specific management and
documentation) while “smart farming” is more holistic, aiming to relieve the farmer in all parts
of his business with intelligent electronics, and to bring about additional cost savings.

The expected benefits of digitization for smart farming can be summarized as follows:
There is large scarcity of physical labour required in farming. With use of technologies
this dependency can be reduced up to some extents. Digitized tractors, sowers, harvesters, AI
controlled irrigation systems may be an good alternatives in this aspect
IoT based systems found very useful in gathering real time data about soil moistures,
temperature, and nutrient requirement. With such systems, Timely and precise actions are
possible in supplying such important items to the crop.
Overall, it can be expected that process improvements can be achieved through
continuous monitoring and an increase in knowledge, for example through AI applications.
Agriculture is carried out with large amounts of data, so it must be possible to store and
make available whenever and wherever required. Cloud computing is far superior in sharing the
data on your figure tip with mobile like devices.

References
https://www.emnify.com/blog/smart-farming-iot
https://www.ibef.org/industry/agriculture-india

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