Agricultural advantages in soil management practices generated from the use of precision agriculture techniques. Literature review

Abstract

The growing demand for food production, the economic importance of agricultural activities, and the concern with preserving natural resources justify the use of new technologies intended to increase productivity per unit area, reduce production costs, and minimize environmental impacts. Given this, in recent decades, the use of technologies related to Precision Agriculture (AP) became a viable alternative, spreading frantically in the various agricultural activities, encompassing, above all, the great cultures of agribusiness crops such as sugar cane, soy, corn, and cotton highlighting the tools and input application techniques at variable rates on the ground. Therefore, this work aimed to carry out a literature review of the last ten years' main technical/scientific publications related to soil fertility management from application techniques of input at variable rates, emphasizing agronomic results from the use of AP tools.