COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN AGRICULTURAL （计算机应用在农业）.pdfVIP

- 126 - COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH M. Sabesh Sci ent i st ( SS) – Com pu t er Ap p li c at i on s , Centr al In st i tu t e f or C ot t on R e se ar ch , C oi mb at or e Introduction: Agriculture Research have benefited from incorporation of technological advances primarily developed for other industries. The industrial age brought mechanization and synthesized fertilizers to agriculture. The technology age offered genetic engineering and automation. The information age brings the potential for integrating the technological and industrial advances into sustainable agriculture production system. The application of the computer in agriculture research originally exploited for the conversion of statistical formula or complex model in digital farm for easy and accurate calculation which are found relatively tedious in manual calculation. In the next generation, the same computers have been used to mechanization, automation and to develop decision support system for taking strategic decision on the agricultural production and protection research. Recently remote sensing and geographic information system has place a maj or and crucial role in agriculture research especially in the field of yield prediction, suitability of soil for particular crop, and site specific resource allocation of agriculture inputs, etc. Information Systems: Before we can understand information systems, we should ask what is information? and What is a system? The data is nothing but numbers 0 to 9 arranged in some form. But each number in its location elicits thousands of information if you could properly apply our mind as long as we are close to the obj ective of the research i