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Toward Malaysian sustainable agriculture in 21st century

Sustainable agriculture should be able to meet various social goals and objectives so that it can be maintained for an indefinite period without significant negative impacts on environment and natural resources. A wide variety of agricultural activities are running in Malaysia. Maintaining high qual...

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Main Authors: Khosro, Khorramnia, Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid, Abdul Rahim, Anuar, Mansor, Shattri
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35871/1/35871.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.358712016-05-17T07:41:43Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35871/ Toward Malaysian sustainable agriculture in 21st century Khosro, Khorramnia Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahim, Anuar Mansor, Shattri Sustainable agriculture should be able to meet various social goals and objectives so that it can be maintained for an indefinite period without significant negative impacts on environment and natural resources. A wide variety of agricultural activities are running in Malaysia. Maintaining high quality of agricultural products with lower environmental impacts through a sustainable economic viability and life satisfaction of farmers and community are important factors helping to meet sustainable agriculture. Human resources are playing key role in directing the community toward sustainable development. The trend of improving the human development index in Malaysia is highest in the East Asia and the Pacific, high human development countries and the world, since 2000. Precision agriculture is providing strong tools to achieve sustainable agriculture. Different types of sensors, positioning and navigation systems, GIS, software and variable rate technology are well known components of precision agriculture. Drones and robots are promising tools that enabling farmers and managers to collect information or perform particular actions in remote areas or tough conditions. According to a survey, forestry and timber, rubber production and oil palm estates are three main agricultural divisions that precision agriculture may improve the productivity in respect to area of cropland/worker. Main factors affecting the adoption of precision agriculture in Malaysia are: a) Political and legal supports, b) Decision support systems and user interfaces c) Experienced research team works d) National educational policy e) Success in commercialization of precision agriculture system. IOP Publishing 2013 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35871/1/35871.pdf Khosro, Khorramnia and Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid and Abdul Rahim, Anuar and Mansor, Shattri (2013) Toward Malaysian sustainable agriculture in 21st century. In: 8th International Symposium of the Digital Earth (ISDE8), 26–29 Aug. 2013, Kuching, Sarawak. (pp. 1-5). 10.1088/1755-1315/18/1/012142
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description Sustainable agriculture should be able to meet various social goals and objectives so that it can be maintained for an indefinite period without significant negative impacts on environment and natural resources. A wide variety of agricultural activities are running in Malaysia. Maintaining high quality of agricultural products with lower environmental impacts through a sustainable economic viability and life satisfaction of farmers and community are important factors helping to meet sustainable agriculture. Human resources are playing key role in directing the community toward sustainable development. The trend of improving the human development index in Malaysia is highest in the East Asia and the Pacific, high human development countries and the world, since 2000. Precision agriculture is providing strong tools to achieve sustainable agriculture. Different types of sensors, positioning and navigation systems, GIS, software and variable rate technology are well known components of precision agriculture. Drones and robots are promising tools that enabling farmers and managers to collect information or perform particular actions in remote areas or tough conditions. According to a survey, forestry and timber, rubber production and oil palm estates are three main agricultural divisions that precision agriculture may improve the productivity in respect to area of cropland/worker. Main factors affecting the adoption of precision agriculture in Malaysia are: a) Political and legal supports, b) Decision support systems and user interfaces c) Experienced research team works d) National educational policy e) Success in commercialization of precision agriculture system.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Khosro, Khorramnia
Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid
Abdul Rahim, Anuar
Mansor, Shattri
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Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid
Abdul Rahim, Anuar
Mansor, Shattri
Toward Malaysian sustainable agriculture in 21st century
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Mohamed Shariff, Abdul Rashid
Abdul Rahim, Anuar
Mansor, Shattri
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title Toward Malaysian sustainable agriculture in 21st century
title_short Toward Malaysian sustainable agriculture in 21st century
title_full Toward Malaysian sustainable agriculture in 21st century
title_fullStr Toward Malaysian sustainable agriculture in 21st century
title_full_unstemmed Toward Malaysian sustainable agriculture in 21st century
title_sort toward malaysian sustainable agriculture in 21st century
publisher IOP Publishing
publishDate 2013
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35871/1/35871.pdf
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