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The Opportunities to Implement Precision Agriculture Technology in Indonesia: A Review
S. Virgawati
University of Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Yogyakarta

Indonesia as an agricultural country has quite wide agricultural land and most of the people working in this sector. Yet so far the results of agricultural production are not enough to meet domestic demand so that the import policy is enforced. Some of the problems including high farm management costs such as the purchase of seeds, fertilizers and pesticides, as well as its farming system that still apply the traditional pattern. Low capital, not optimized natural resource management, and limited knowledge of technology in farmer level are also constraints in agricultural development. The issue of climate change, limited resources, food security and free trade will inevitably push Indonesia toward agricultural industrialization. Demands of agricultural industrialization are coming in the near future to ensure national food security, the competitiveness of commodities in the international arena, the sustainability and environmental issues. The effort to increase agricultural production is to implement precision agricultural (PA) technology to obtain the optimization and cost efficiency of land management. Many studies from leading universities in Indonesia have been performed PA research to revitalize Indonesian agricultural development. At least there are some records of the agricultural technology, e.g. agricultural automation technology, agricultural e-commerce, information systems technology and agricultural policy. Farmers should be encouraged by fostering their knowledge, institutional, technological, and capital in order to become the modern agricultural actors in the 21st century.

Keyword: Precision agriculture, agricultural development, Indonesia