Precision agriculture trends in fruit growing from 2016 to 2020

Lucas Molz Lara,Alencar Lucas Soares,Luciano Gebler,Mirabor José Leite Júnior

doi:10.1590/0100-29452021096

Abstract

Abstract Brazilian fruit culture has a great influence on the social and economic sector in the most diverse regions of the country, generating employment and income in the exercise of its activities. As it is an activity carried out most often in a manual and conventional manner, fruit culture has a great potential for technological growth, especially when adopting the concepts applied by precision agriculture on the crops of grains, fibers and energy, creating a new segment, Precision Fruit Farming. The present work aims to carry out a bibliographic review on the main trends that have emerged in the last five years on Precision Fruit growing, highlighting its future perspectives and the history of technological evolution. 83 articles were analyzed, classified in different perennial cultures and applications, such as machine learning, remote sensing, robotics, using UAV to obtain different vegetation indexes, among others.

Highlights

In recent years, fruit production in Brazil has stood out as one of the main agricultural activities in the country, exerting great influence on the social and economic sector
Fruit growing has adopted practices used by conventional Precision Agriculture (PA), emerging a new term in the agricultural environment known as Precision Fruit Farming (PFG) (GEBLER et al, 2015), which can be described as a cycle that is repeated annually in perennial culture, from implantation to the eradication of plants in an area (Figure 1)
Because it is a recent activity and presents different particularities and needs in relation to conventional PA, PFG has been arousing the interest of research, which seeks pioneering solutions to the main challenges encountered in the sector, given that the focus on product quality becomes more relevant than productivity (GEBLER et al, 2015; ZUDE-SASSE et al, 2016)

Summary

Introduction

Fruit production in Brazil has stood out as one of the main agricultural activities in the country, exerting great influence on the social and economic sector. Fruit growing has adopted practices used by conventional PA, emerging a new term in the agricultural environment known as Precision Fruit Farming (PFG) (GEBLER et al, 2015), which can be described as a cycle that is repeated annually in perennial culture, from implantation to the eradication of plants in an area (Figure 1) Because it is a recent activity and presents different particularities and needs in relation to conventional PA, PFG has been arousing the interest of research, which seeks pioneering solutions to the main challenges encountered in the sector, given that the focus on product quality becomes more relevant than productivity (GEBLER et al, 2015; ZUDE-SASSE et al, 2016). The objective of this work is to carry out a bibliographic review on the main trends that emerged between the years 2016 and 2020 on Precision Fruit growing, highlighting its future perspectives and the history of technological evolution behind this activity so important for Brazil

Recent technological developments in fruitculture

Methodology used in this review and its limits

RESULTS

Final considerations