The support and contribution of mobile technologies and applications to agriculture

Abstract

Agricultural management is based on information, so information about seeds, water and soil moisture, nutrients, plant protection, market of agricultural products, etc., is critical success factor for agriculture. This information must reach the end users or farmers, in order to use the potential for improving agricultural production and business. In this context, information-intensive and precision agriculture techniques based on knowledge and information and communication technologies (ICTs) are essence of contemporary agriculture. Accordingly, farmers could achieve the benefits of the Internet, mobile technologies and other ICTs that provide information services relevant to the management of agricultural production and business. This paper is a contribution to the research of the use of mobile technologies in agriculture with special reference to mobile applications in agriculture and intelligent agricultural system based on mobile and wireless technologies.