Technological imperative in the rural field

• Main Author: Fábio Mosso Moreira
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho 2021-07-01
• Series: Revista Eletrônica Competências Digitais para Agricultura Familiar
• Subjects: editorial; recodaf; volume 7; número 1
• Online Access: https://owl.tupa.unesp.br/recodaf/index.php/recodaf/article/view/141

This first number of the seventh volume, in turn, brings together a set of six articles, which can be organized into three distinct conceptual dimensions. The first dimension has a direction aimed at identifying technological options that can be implemented in the agricultural activities of the small producer. This axis is represented by a single article, entitled “Technologies that support sustainable food production” (SAUSEN et al., 2021), and presents the results of a mapping of informational technologies identified as a possible solution to be used in the production process. The second dimension is composed of three articles that deal with the development and prototyping of innovative technologies for the rural environment. The article entitled “Initiative for the integration of IT in the operational management of agricultural productive units” (BERMEO-ANDRADE et al., 2021) presents the results of a pilot project for the development of an application aimed at vegetable producers; the article “Development of software for irrigation management using crop evapotranspiration” (RODRIGUES et al., 2021) describes the prototyping of an application aimed at managing water resources in the production process; and the third article that integrates this dimension is entitled "Planning a plantation monitoring system for application in family farming" (MOREIRA; AMARAL; LIMA, 2021) and describes the components and architecture of a low-cost device, developed to measure temperature and humidity (air and soil) in vegetable cultivation. The third and last theoretical dimension of this composition includes two articles, which have a closer perspective of the implications that the manipulation of informational technologies has for the rural producer or worker. The first article that integrates this dimension is entitled “Digital habits of fruit and vegetable producers and their relationship with the socioeconomic profile and the rural business” (NUNES et al., 2021), and analyzes the relationship between the profile of the rural producer and the appropriation of ICT, through a case study carried out in the municipality of Tangará da Serra-MT; and the second article in this axis is entitled “Study of times and movements for measuring labor productivity in oil palm plantations in Colombia: the case of artificial pollination” (CAMPEROS; BARRERA; MOSQUERA-MONTOYA, 2021) , and presents data on the implementation of technologies based on artificial intelligence as a way to automate a massive work performed by rural workers, as is the case of manual pollination of cultivars.