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Is Precision Agriculture the Game Changer in Malaysia?
Siva K Balasundram, PhDAssociate Professor
Department of Agriculture Technology
International Meeting on Land Cover and Land Use Changes 2019 | Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) & National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA | Johor Bahru, Johor | July 23, 2019 (Invited Talk)
Country Representative Member, Board of Trustees
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Was Thomas Malthus correct?
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Today, after more than 200 years …
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Dominant shift towards monoculture (Fatimah, 2018)
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Industrial crops are susceptible to cycles,demand for food is ever increasing (Fatimah, 2018)
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Income potential … (based on 2018 calculations)
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A management practice applied at the right rate, right time and the right place
Field sub-region management nutrients drainage/irrigation pests and diseases tillage and seeding
Individual field focus spatial variability temporal variability
Precision agriculture
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differences across space/distance
Spatial variability
Yin, X. 2016. Geostatistical analyses of field spatial variability of cotton yield. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 4: 75-87
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differences across time/season
Temporal variability
High to low
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Benefit Occurs No Benefit Occurs
ACT Correct action Type II error: Loss caused
DON’T ACT Type I error: Lost opportunity
Correct inaction
Precision agriculture minimizes Type I & Type II errors
Why is precision agriculture practical?
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Higher yield with the same level of inputs
The same yield with reduced inputs
Higher yield with reduced inputs
Possible outcomes from using precision agriculture
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Mapping out the bottom line!
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Key challenge for precision agriculture
Technology structure Precision agriculture is information-intensive and
not embodied knowledge (e.g. hybrid seeds, GMO)
need to transform precision agriculture into embodied knowledge so that end-users can understand better, without having to understand the complex science behind it
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Technological domain Scope of investigation KeywordsGeo-spatial modeling FFB yields
Leaf and soil nutrientsFertilizer trialsSoil organic carbon
Spatial variability, management zones,nearest-neighbor analysis, operational zones
Decision support system Oil yield Oil quality
FFB harvesting, image processing, surface color, degree of bleachabilityindex
Remote and proximal sensing
FFB yieldsDisease detectionOil qualityStand density
Vegetation indices, spectral reflectance, sensor, geographical information system, Google Earth
Balasundram, S.K. 2016. Selected precision agriculture studies in oil palm: A 10-year summary. Revista Palmas, 37(1): 243-266. (In Spanish)
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Our recent outputs: Crop monitoring
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Our recent outputs: Landuse and hydrological modeling
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Monitoring of oil palm stress using drone technology (mounted with an NDVI sensor)
Our ongoing work
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Stress factors under investigation: nutrient imbalance pest infestation water flow
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Our ongoing international collaboration
Digital farming for citrus orchards
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Key areas for further work
1. Crop nutrition• Nutrient balance index
2. Pest and disease control• Early detection in a non-destructive way
3. Harvesting/Crop recovery• Optimum ripeness detection protocol
• Optimized quality
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Other areas that require further work
Mapping of carbon sequestration potential in different oil palm ecosystems
Development of sustainability indicators that include spatial and temporal variability
Development of appropriate spatial scale to monitor shifts in yield maxima
Geospatial modeling of water flow in sloping land
Improvement of data processing methods, e.g. drone data should be in sync with spatio-temporal data
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Evolution of precision agriculture
Precision Agriculture
Remote sensing
Positioning systems
Geographical information
system
Artificial intelligence
Decision support systems
Variable rate application
Precision Agriculture
Sensors
Positioning systemsData analytics
Hardware and software systems
Communication systems
Telematics
The first 25 years (1990-2015): Efficient farm
The next several years (2015-?): Connected farm
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Source: Accenture (2015)
Towards a connected farm …
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▪ Efficient ▪ Cost-effective ▪ Practical ▪ Pollution free Climate-smart agriculture
Making the crop fit the environment (always changing) → resilience
instead of the old way of changing the environment to fit the crop
Where are we going with all these?
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A means of connecting systems so as to allow an integrated, multidimensional view of farming activities, enabling deeper understanding on how the whole ecosystem works
Internet of Things (IoT) in Agriculture
• Smart devices than can collect and send data in real time to increase speed for decision making
• Big data
Where are we going with all these? … (2)
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- rich & varied- connected - stored in ‘cloud’
- constant monitoring of animal wellbeing
- alerts & triggers- reduces soil
erosion
- precise detection & quick intervention
- microplotapplication of inputs
See you there!Thanks for your attention