Skip to main content

Open Access Impact of precision agriculture on environment

Download Article:
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.

Keywords: environmental impact; fertilizers; pesticides; precision agriculture; water

Document Type: Research Article

Publication date: 15 October 2009

More about this publication?
  • Transations of the Chinese Society of Agricultural Engineering(TCSAE), founded in 1985, is sponsored by the Chinese Chemical Society. TCSAE has been indexed by EI Compendex, CAB Inti, CSA. TCSAE is devoted to reporting the academic developments of Agricultural Engineering mainly in China and some developments from abroad. The primary topics that we consider are the following: comprehensive research, agricultural equipment and mechanization, soil and water engineering, agricultural information and electrical technologies, agricultural bioenvironmental and energy engineering, land consolidation and rehabilitation engineering, agricultural produce processing engineering.

  • Editorial Board
  • Ingenta Connect is not responsible for the content or availability of external websites
  • Access Key
  • Free content
  • Partial Free content
  • New content
  • Open access content
  • Partial Open access content
  • Subscribed content
  • Partial Subscribed content
  • Free trial content