Participatory Ict Developments During The Agricultural Sector

The records of the last census taken todays population is approximately 7 billion. To put it into perspective of the amount of work farmers take into hand the average farmer feeds 155 people one their own. (“Comparing Agriculture of the Past to Today”) . Notice that a census is only taken on the people of the world, but farmers and their operations are not separately accounted for. “It is impossible to calculate the exact number of farms and farmers in the United States.” (Conkin 147). Of course farmers do not use the simplistic technology of the past to achieve these high expectations. Farms implement the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to improve crop production. The GPS is a system that uses satellite signals to find the location of a radio receiver. (“The Science and Technology of Agriculture”) Using biotechnology has also became an interesting subject of big time farmers. This is the changing of genetic material if living things to improve the production of the product. An example of a GMO would be crops that have been modified to be resistant to disease. Disease resistant crops are one of the most widely used in the field of GMO’s. (“The Science and Technology of Agriculture”).

From pulling the ploughs with cows in the 18th century to monitoring the entire farm with mobile apps today, technology has changed farming and food production greatly for the people. However, technology in food production has long been the center of heated conversations and endless debates. How has such technology influence the lives of people today, as well as the environment they live in? Michael Specter in his article “Roundup and Risk Assessment” argues that technology in farming, such as herbicides, are beneficial to the general population, while Michael Pollan in his book The Omnivore’s Dilemma:

Throughout time, humans have pushed forward in every aspect in life in order to improve their living standards, wealth and most importantly the agricultural sector which is the base of every human race. Food is the basic requirement for any individual to stay alive and healthy. In an article by Tamsin McMahon, she states that over the past 60 years, the world population has grown from 2.5 billion to 7 billion while world hunger dropped from 40% down to 15% (McMahon T., July 2012). This shows that our agricultural advances through technology have helped control world hunger and decrease it by more than half, but this is a short-term solution if we want to consider the future generations that depend on our current actions toward the three main pillars of agriculture which are: Health and nutrition, Economy and sustainability all while considering the local small farms and corporate farms.

Precision farming refers to using data and technology to help guide strategic decisions about planting and growing crops. Enhanced mapping and electronic monitoring of yield are both examples of precision farming. Enhanced mapping is made possible through a combination of satellite photographs, ground monitoring devices and GPS targeting (Searle 2). Electronic monitoring of yield is carried out during harvests. Because devices are able to record exactly how much is harvested and then the data is collected can be combined with enhanced mapping to help farmers choose the best areas of their land for planting specific crops. Bioengineering involves the use of genetically modified seeds. The seeds used to grow crops can be modified to increase pest resistance, enhance drought tolerance or yield output that is fortified with nutrients that aren’t naturally found in that specific crop (Ruttan

The Department of Agricultural Education and Communications Department at Texas Tech University is considered a national leader in the discipline. The department offers both undergraduate and graduate degrees in agricultural education, agricultural leadership, and agricultural communications. Faculty members represent a wide range of backgrounds, interests, and are involved in a variety of local, state, regional, national, and international activities and organizations. Visit www.depts.ttu.edu/aged/ for more information about the

In this day and age, members of the social world are gradually adapting to using technology more frequently in their daily routine, as well as throughout their lives. On the streets, one tends to see pedestrians interacting with their smartphones, whether it be listening to music or communicating with others. This is not limited to the general public, however. University students can be found with a variety of electronic devices used not only for communication and music, but also for their coursework and keeping up with social media. This includes: Texting, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and even popular news channels such as CNN. How does the experience of being immersed in an electronic device, such as a smartphone, reflect and shape a person 's social world, mostly dealing with communication and responsibility? This paper will describe an ethnographic project in which I explored this question using an ethnographic approach, drawing on techniques from anthropology such as being involved through participant observation, as well as proposing structured, semistructured, or unstructured interviews that can vary from being informal to formal. In this paper I will first describe the methods and procedures that I used, then explain and discuss my findings, then close by returning to the question I have posed above. For the purposes of my research, I am defining 1.) communication as: participating on social media sites

Today´s farmers produce 262 percent of agriculture with a two percent fewer input compared to than the 1950 information. Jared Diamond from the University of California at Los Angeles Medical School believes that the information of agriculture is wrong. Which he supports his theory in the article ¨ The worst mistake in the History of the Human Race¨ . Diamond explains that agriculture is not needed and a ¨waste of time¨.

Education is a constant part of agriculture and educators are constantly updating information and hosting educational webinars

Whether we think about it or not, agriculture is a big part of our lives. The food we eat, the clothes we wear, the fuel we use; all of these are products of American agriculture. There is no escaping the fact that agriculture has an influence on each and every one of us; in fact, it has been impacting our culture for generations, and will continue to do so for years to come. All future generations will rely—at least in part—on agriculture.

This case study was shocking. I found it to be very surprising how minimal the agricultural professionals’

Over the years, my demonstration for service has been shown by serving in the United States Peace Corps in West Africa and within the Black Graduate Student Organization. During my Peace Corps experience, I was assigned to identify common problems in communities and create solutions that improved sustainable agricultural practices and generate income through agribusiness ventures. While serving in Black Graduate Student Organization, I lead efforts within the urban communities to start youth enrichment programs in Gainesville Florida. Along with this experience, my educational training as a professional has prepared me in formal, nonformal, and informal education, which equips me with the skills necessary to disseminate research base knowledge to individuals that need information in various setting. I have also acquired personal experiences making meaningful contributions to a more diverse academic community, in my professional career prior to graduate school, I had the opportunity to prepare and implement non-formal educational programs, workshops, and events in collaboration with agriculture agents and other stakeholders targeting small and minority farmers in rural communities. As a result of these efforts, farming communities have improved their farm management, financial record-keeping, and computer literacy

After reading and gathering information about this article participatory sensing, my first initial thought was what is participatory sensing? Participatory sensing is an approach to data collection and interpretation in which individuals, acting alone or in groups, use their personal mobile devices and web services to systematically explore interesting aspects of their worlds ranging from health to culture. There are many authentic forms of participatory sensing, but one in particular is the article written by Katie Shilton. As Shilton expresses the use of participatory sensing through forms of privacy, mobile phone, and ubiquitous data collection. Based on these forms of technology about participatory sensing, how would it improve our lives and our communities, but at what cost, we are willing to have our privacy be out there in many databases? As we move into the new era of technology, the thought of our personal information being place into database collection have many concerns, but few are left untold about the truth of their information. The database is derive from many information like mobile phone as they are used to analyze the research behind the use of mobile phones communication. The use of mobile phones is used to collect data for personal or social projects for the mobile and urban coverage. Moreover, Participatory sensing is meant to enable and encourage anyone to gather and investigate previously invisible data. An example, through the mobile phone database,

During my coursework I will be inventing an Ict system for Mr Robert black as he has approached me to help his new catering company ‘mobile lunches 4u’. There are a few business parks around the local area where Mr Black has decided that there are opportunities for a mobile catering business, selling snacks and drinks at lunchtimes to people who work at offices in the business parks. Mr Black has been running this business for about 6 months but has had trouble keeping records of his income and expenditure. This problem has occurred because since Mr Black has started is business he wrote everything by hand, he has faced problems like he was unable to read his writing due to messy writing and this caused most data to be read wrong which

The main intention to form this company was to make a new, sustainable approach to agriculture that can help the family farms and rural communities survive.

The agricultural equipment industry is one that is very important to the global market because it impacts both the United State’s and Brazil’s economies greatly. The balance of trade between the US and Brazil relies on the success of agricultural equipment as a whole. This paper will analyze the history of agricultural equipment and how machinery has impacted the farming industry and culture on a global scale, and continues to do so.