Precision Agriculture in the Promotion of Sustainable Development | Agricultura de Precisão na Promoção do Desenvolvimento Sustentável

• Main Authors: Karla Emmanuelle da Silva, Taciana Simas Carvalho Paes Barreto, Neide Kazue S. Shinohara, José Machado, Júlio da S. C. O. Andrade
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco 2017-06-01
• Series: Revista Geama
• Online Access: http://www.journals.ufrpe.br/index.php/geama/article/view/1415

With the constant population growth, the demand for foods to supply the society’s necessity for food, follow this growth, but the areas intended for planting are being used in an exploratory way, without careful evaluation of the environmental impacts that this practice would cause to the ecosystem. The precision agriculture appears as a technologic tool that favors the optimization of agriculture inputs aiming to reduce harmful impacts on the environmental, ensuring the increase of the productivity and protection to the environmental. The purpose of this article is to relate the use of the precision agriculture and its scope combined with sustainable development in compliance whit natural resources. It was observed that with precision agriculture in the agricultural production it brought greater control to the cultivation promoting the increase of production and the reducing of environmental impacts.