Environmental Impact and Regulations

Until today, yield increase, reduction in labor costs, and profitability have emerged as the most important contributions in the adoption of smart farming. In this chapter, a detailed description of the impact of smart farming on the environment, the development of more eco-friendly smart farming solutions, and the process of reducing negative impact with the intervention of positive policy-making from the government as well as other industrial sectors or research and development partnerships will be discussed. This chapter discusses the impact of smart farming on the environment, the development of more eco-friendly smart farming solutions, and the process of reducing negative impact with the intervention of positive policy-making from the government as well as industrial sectors or research and development partnerships. Timely decision and advisory support for disease and pest management have managed the overuse or frequent use of chemicals, thus becoming both economical nature-friendly. The importance of policy-building and extending the policy horizons will result in endless benefits for the farmer communities. Globally, digital, AI technologies are helping solve pressing issues across the agriculture value chain. The relative role of each technology in creating impact is dependent on the nature of the work along with the issues at hand. IoT and robotic systems for applications like cold storage, supply chain logistics for monitoring product quality assurance, fertigation, irrigation, ultrasonic sensor-based spraying system that may be developed as field prototypes as well as for commercial production.