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Precision Agriculture for Resource-Poor Small Holders Breakout session

This session explores the implementation of precision agriculture tailored for resource-poor smallholders. It emphasizes the appropriate management practices, optimal input placement, and timing to enhance productivity sustainably while minimizing risk. Key topics include focusing on field variability, utilizing tools like pocket sensors and leaf color charts for better decision-making, and fostering partnerships to enhance capacity-building among farmers. By improving accessibility to technologies and sharing vital information, we aim to empower smallholders and adapt precision agriculture strategies to local contexts.

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Precision Agriculture for Resource-Poor Small Holders Breakout session

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  1. Precision Agriculture for Resource-Poor Small Holders Breakout session M.L. Jat, I. Nyagumbo, S. Cheesman, M.S. Turmel, M. Devare

  2. Precision agriculture for resource-poor smallholder? • Appropriate management and correct inputs, sources, amounts, placement, time • Increase productivityand profitability sustainably while reducing risk • Focus on between-field vs. within-field variability • Basket of options depending on circumstance • Precision planting, input application... • How? Tools and machinery, pocket sensor, leaf color charts…

  3. Small Farm PA (Farm, Watershed,… Focus) Large Farm PA (Individual Field Focus) Wind Erosion Chemicals SoilErosion Terrain Runoff Leaching Soils Leaching Leaching Yield Potassium 3-dimensional CIR Image 2-dimensional Interconnected Perspective Isolated Perspective Small v/s large farm precision agriculture (From Berry, 2008)

  4. What do we need for precision ag? • System information/characterization • Varieties • Field features (biophysical and biological) • Technologies and machinery • Environmentally, economically, locally adapted • Apply working solutions across regions

  5. What do we need for precision ag? • Partnerships, linkages, backstopping • Build bidirectional capacity (technicians and farmers) • Outreach (ICTs, demos, other dissemination tools) • Improve affordability of tools through linkages? • Infrastructure • Roads, markets, input providers...

  6. Characterization, prescription: Remote sensing for small farms

  7. Technologies and machinery: do we need sophisticated machines ? • Indigenous precision planters

  8. Multi-crop seed-cum ferti attachment for 2WT

  9. Technologies and machinery Indigenous precision planting on raised beds

  10. Precision land leveling system for 2 WTWater saving for smallholders

  11. Low-cost high clearance sprayer for smallholders Relative precision in chemical molecule application

  12. Outreach through partnerships: Precision nutrient management • Small, cheaper tools for PNM

  13. Outreach through partnerships: Decision support tools & ICTs • Nutrient Expert (DSS)- integration with ICTs

  14. Outreach through partnerships: Precision information dissemination via ICTs (e.g. Agriplex) • Help farmers by providing precise and value added information when they need it: • New Practices/technologies • Forecasts • Market • Inputs & Services

  15. Thanks

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