Analysis of Precision Agricultural Problems from the Viewpoint of Agricultural jihad Experts in Urmia

In the current century, important issues such as increasing human health and environmental pollution and need to reduce inputs and sustainable agriculture, have made it more urgent to use modern technologies, including precision agricultural, in the field of agricultural input management. Equal application of agricultural inputs on farms, regardless of variables within the farm and existing conditions, has not shown good results in product performance. However, precision farming by managing production inputs reduces production costs and environmental pollution, increase yields and productivity, better management and decision-making based on information and sustainable agriculture development. Considering the importance of the topic and the enormous potential that precision agriculture has in developing countries, including Iran, to improve the agricultural sector, the objective of this study is to analyze the problems of the development of precision agriculture from the viewpoint of experts in the Agricultural Jihad Organization of Urmia. This research was applied and descriptive-survey. The statistical population of this research was 101 experts of Urmia Agricultural Jihad Organization. The census method was used to collect data. An exploratory analysis was used to identify the challenges and precision agriculture. According to the results of the research, the most important problems of precision agricultural from the viewpoint of the experts were: information and educational problems (knowledge weakness in the field of precision farming technologies), economic problems (lack of economic justification and precision farming profitability and financial weakness Farmers), management problems (adherence of managers to traditional management practices), technical and organizational problems (poor access to software and hardware needed inside the country), motivational problems (low motivation for graduates to enter agricultural production), technological problems (lack of development of agricultural mechanization). Based on the results, all the problems that are summarized in the six factors have a negative effect on the implementation of the precision agricultural process and slow down or stop the process. The problems encountered in the six factors explained about 70.46% of the total variance.