Applications and Challenges of Smart Farming for Developing Sustainable Agriculture

Abstract

griculture is the backbone of any nation, which supplies with the needed foods, feeds, fiber and fuel. The crucial sector has become more flexible and advanced due to the enormous progress in the bioinformatics, which penetrates all fields in our life. Smart agriculture is an important page in the history of global agriculture, which already used several advanced technologies during different agricultural practices starting from the pre-cultivation, cultivation, seedling, fertilization, weed detection, irrigation, spraying pesticides, till harvesting and also pot-harvest. Many sectors have been involved in smart farming like smart irrigation, and all precision farming practices for improving and management of the agriculture especially in the developing countries, which need more supporting from their governments even at the private sector and the small farms level. This short communication is a call for submitting articles on smart farming and its applications in different agricultural practices including irrigation, fertilization, and etc. Due to smart agriculture mainly depends on the bioinformatics, this technology has several open questions particularly their applications, models, and security, which need further investigations.

Application Scenarios of Digital Twins for Smart Crop Farming through Cloud–Fog–Edge Infrastructure

“…Crop farming is generally complex and relies heavily on various factors such as weather conditions, soil quality, irrigation management, fertiliser and nutrient availability, and pest control. In the past, farmers had to rely on traditional methods and intuition to make informed decisions [18]. However, with the introduction of smart agriculture or smart farming, farmers now have access to real-time data and accurate weather forecasts compared to the past.…”

Nanofarming: Promising Solutions for the Future of the Global Agricultural Industry

“…The main features of smart irrigation management include soil monitoring, crop water modeling, the use of high-quality water, the use of drones to assist in field monitoring, applying weather forecasting to irrigation planning, and irrigation scheduling [128]. Smart farming, including irrigation, is considered a crucial approach to developing sustainable agriculture [129], especially under a nanofarming from farm-to-fork strategy [130]. Part (B) presents some suggested terms related to fertilizers.…”

Analysis of Long-Range Wireless Area Network Enabled Smart Agriculture for Sustainable Food Production

“…This is made easier by SmartFarm, which uses data collected from farms, satellites, drones, and sensors to monitor farms in 360 degrees. The use of 5G in these devices may help with effective crop monitoring, which is a task carried out and carried out by autonomous drone sprayers [10].…”