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GIS in Agriculture: A Review

Rupesh Prasad

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ABSTRACT
GIS stands for Geographic Information System. By using GIS technology farming can be done in more large scale like it can help the farmers to get better knowledge about their farming field so that they can grow more and better crops. Now a day’s technology is helping to use in many ways in agriculture. GIS is also one part of it which is playing a very important role in the world to the farmers to increase in the production of crops and maintaining their land more efficient. In farming land plays an important role by using this technique it gives all the details of the land which helps the farmers to know that weather the land is fertile to do agriculture. It also helps to lead them by showing the soil, land and many more data which help them to do better farming.

Keywords: role of information technology, agriculture, IT Technology used in agriculture, Ceinsys

Cite this Article: Rupesh Prasad. GIS in Agriculture: A Review. International Journal of Satellite Communication & Remote Sensing. 2019; 5(1): 12–15p.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.37591/jscrs.v5i1.1113

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