As a group we found two articles that would be useful for our group research project. The first article that we search for was basic farming strategies to understand how farmers today use different strategies to farm compared to days of the past. The article that we found was “Precision Agriculture concept: Distribution Patterns of Selected Soil and Crop Characteristics Influenced by Fertigation”. Not this entire article was useful for what we were looking for but the sections of materials and methods were found to be the most useful. The article showed the deep thinking that farmers have to do in order to pick the perfect site for planting certain crops. In this case sugar beets. "Average annual temperature of 16.7° C, annual freezing days of 76 days and the annual rainfall of 116.9 mm are climate data of experimental site." Just from looking at the statement there are more number then you would think coming from choosing a location to plant a specific plant.
The second article that we found was title “bulk Soil Electrical Conductivity as an Estimator of Nutrients in the Maize Cultivated Land” which is about the use of electricity in the soil to determine the number of nutrients there were in the soil. "Laboratory soil test is usually time consuming and laborious. Since farmers cultivate annual crops more than once a year, this leads to delay in remedial action for the coming season. Hence, rapid measurement and monitoring of soil nutrient variability is needed to satisfy the precision farming requirements." This quote caught my eye because this show that choosing the best area of land to be used is a process that shows effort of being speed up which is important because this will increase the production of certain food products .
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