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Issues and Challenges in Smart Farming for Sustainable Agriculture

Issues and Challenges in Smart Farming for Sustainable Agriculture
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Author(s): Immanuel Zion Ramdinthara (Pondicherry University, India)and Shanthi Bala P. (Pondicherry University, India)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 22
Source title: Research Anthology on Food Waste Reduction and Alternative Diets for Food and Nutrition Security
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5354-1.ch039

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Abstract

Sustainable agriculture helps to promote farming practices and methods in order to sustain farmers and resources. It is economically viable, socially supportive, and economically sound. It assists to maintain soil quality, reduce soil erosion and degradation, and also save water resources. Sustainable agriculture improves the biodiversity of the land and thus leads to the healthy and natural environment. The sustainable agriculture is very essential to ordinate with the increasing demand for the food, climate change, and degradation of the ecosystem in future. It plays a major role for preserving natural resources, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, halting biodiversity loss, and caring for valued landscapes. Sustainable agriculture is applied to farming in order to preserve the nature without compromising the quality of the future generation basic needs and thus enable to make smartness in farming. The common practices included in smart farming for sustainable agriculture are crop rotations that mitigate weeds, disease, insect, and other pest problems.

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