AN ESTIMATION OF FUTURE FARM MANAGEMENT WITH THE RESPECT OF TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS

Abstract

SUMMARY The applications of farm management principles have been very difficult due to lack of data until last decade. Resent developments in tech nologies such as sensor, internet, digital technology, wireless, Global Position System (GPS), and Geographic Information System (GIS) make easy to collect data from agricultural e nterprises which makes decision for planning, application, analyses, and control. Techn ological developments create environmental friendly farm opportunities as well a s new term “Precision Farming”. Using advanced technologies in agriculture for Precision Farming is increasing rapidly especially in the developed countries such as USA, Japan, and some members of EU. At the same time more than half of developing countries try to have application of PF too. It seems that one day farmers will be able to applied advanced technologi es in order to manage 10 000 hectare with internet, wireless, GPS, digital technologies by ju st 2-3 people employee. The study was contacted with advantaged technologies use in agriculture and discuses future farm management with the respect of technological development. It is estimation for the future farm management principles. Materials were collected from resent releases literatures and the application of a project titled “Establishing an infrastructure Research and Development for using Advantaged Technologies in Agriculture” in Konya, Turkey supported by State Planning Organization.