Precision Agriculture: Influencing factors and challenges faced by farmers in delta districts of Tamil Nadu

Abstract

Precision agriculture is a notion with great potential for the agricultural industry, it tends to make sense to implement it to fulfil the requirements of Indian growers since India is a nation where agriculture dominates, with 50 percent of the workforce employed in it. As an illustration, overusing input materials like Inorganic manure, pesticides, and fertilisers frequently causes environmental damage and disturbs the environmental integrity. But by giving growers the ability to spot fields that need care and choose the best combination of water, manure, and herbicides to use, precision farming can assist in reducing the heavy reliance on these environment damaging inputs. While the prospect of precision farming has grown rapidly in recent years, there is still a requirement for enhancing precision farming to make the Agri sector more user-friendly. This study mainly conducted to know the attitude of farmers carry. This study tries to study the demographic factors influence on Precision Agriculture, also access the influence of Agro ecological factors, behavioural factors, institutional factors, informational factors, technical factors, perception factors towards Precision Agriculture adoption. Finally suggest appropriate recommendations for enhancing Precision Agriculture in India. New possibilities for the use of precision agriculture in India are being created by quick social changes like productivity expansion, urban development, and power consumption. Instead of cluelessly adopting the sophisticated Precision Farming innovations used by advanced countries, India should embrace techniques based on the demands of the nation’s economic situation.