Precision Agriculture in Malaysia. FFTC Jurnal of Agriculture Policy: 14. (Submitted) (2019)
Abstract
Malaysia's recent national agendas are primed toward achieving triple-bottom line development, in-line with principles stipulated in the SDGs. Achieving this will require an agricultural sector that is robust, efficient and cost effective. Malaysia's agricultural sector is distinguished by its dichotomous nature; primary commodities such as oil palm and rubber, and the agro-food branch with paddy and other food crops. It can also be viewed in terms of not only its obvious share of GDP, scale and value, but also in terms of its efficiency, productivity and level of sophistication and coordination. Precision agriculture (PA) techniques can be applied to address technical issues in the agriculture sector, such as reducing uncertainties, managing variabilities in farm management and allowing efficient use of resources. Its application in the palm oil industry enables temporal and spatially distributed data on trees, soil and environmental conditions of large plantation areas which are collected remotely. This aids management of plantation areas, disease detection and affirmative actions, as well as yield estimation. In the paddy industry, PA allows farmers to reduce input costs and increase planting efficiency. PA can be aligned to the needs of the palm oil industry to increase productivity and overcome its negative market image. In the paddy industry, PA technology has shown promising results, however it is plagued by high costs and an industry that is recalcitrant to new technologies.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | Precision agriculture, Sustainability, Food security, Oil palm, Paddy |
| Taxonomy: | By Subject > Plantation & Agrotechnology > Agriculture Technology By Subject > Plantation & Agrotechnology > Crop Protection |
| Local Content Hub: | Subjects > Plantation & Agrotechnology |
| Depositing User: | Mohd Ismail Zanudin |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2021 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 03 Mar 2021 09:30 |
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