Synergizing Precision Agriculture with Microbial Ecosystem Engineering
Abstract
The integration of Precision Agriculture (PA) and Microbial Ecosystem Engineering (MEE) offers a promising approach to enhancing agricultural productivity, sustainability, and resilience. PA uses modern technologies, remote sensing, IoT sensors, and data analytics to optimize the use of resources, whereas MEE is concerned with the manipulation of soil microbiomes to enhance the health of soils, the recycling of nutrients and resistance to diseases. This review examines the synergies of these two disciplines, and how the real-time information provided by PA can be used to inform the targeted use of useful microbes and microbial consortia. This integrated methodology would enhance the fertility of soil, minimize the environmental impact, and increase the crop production through the integration of the accuracy of PA and the biological potential of MEE. Although this is a huge potential, issues like data integration, scalability, regulatory issues and knowledge deficiency must be encountered. The most important way of breaking these barriers and achieving the full potential of this integrated solution to sustainable agriculture will be through future research and interdisciplinary collaboration.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26549/mmpp.v7i1.36164
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