PRECISE AGRICULTURE - A NEW STAGE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION OF NORTH KAZAKHSTAN
Keywords:
Agriculture systems, anti-erosion tillage, electronic field maps, agrochemical soil parameters, doses of mineral fertilizers, soil sampling methods, a sampler, precision farming elements: GIS, GPS, GLONASS, remote sensing, aerial photography, crop monitoring, radio-controlled unmanned aerial flying apparatusAbstract
The introduction of the precision farming system in the agricultural production of Northern Kazakhstan is constrained by a number of reasons, among which we can single out – socio-economic, agronomic, technological. Currently, there are two farming systems in the region – the “soil-protective farming system”. The main link of such an agricultural system is pure steam and the No-Till system of soil-protective agriculture, which literally means “do not plow” in English. The main drawback of these farming systems is that at the present stage of development of agricultural production they are not able to cover the economic losses incurred as a
result of low land productivity in the agricultural sector of Northern Kazakhstan. The relevance of the transition to a new stage in the development of agricultural production – precision farming in the north of Kazakhstan is determined not only by its economic costs and lost profits, the rate of which is increasing every year, but also by a significant deterioration in the state of natural resources and the environment. In this regard, in addressing these issues, the transfer of agriculture of Northern Kazakhstan to the principles of precision farming becomes a system-forming link, it is impossible without updating and developing a fundamentally new infrastructure, otherwise the agricultural production of the region will in the near future come into contact with the problem of not modernity and the lack of competitiveness of its mechanisms.
