An Insight Into Applications of IoT in the Agricultural Sector

2. Traditional Agricultural Applications

The ability of traditional agriculture to adapt to and mitigate these anthropogenic hazards can help to ensure environmental safety and sustainable output (Patel et al., 2020). It is a dynamic instrument for protecting natural resources, including water and agro ecosystems on small family farms and in the landscape. The ecological theory and the connection between the human environment and the available natural resources form the foundation of traditional farming. The environmentally sound characteristics, widespread acceptance, and environmental and financial viability of traditional agriculture make it special (Patel et al., 2020). It maintains production by making adequate use of local resources that are readily available and creates site-specific agricultural methods that are suitable with the local climatic conditions and spatial and sequence diversity (Patel et al., 2020). According to Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) 2019, more than half of the food produced globally is produced in house yards, which is how many rural people survive. Several procedures are used in traditional agriculture, and these procedures are referred to as traditional agriculture practices as a whole (TAPs) Figure 1 (Patel et al., 2020).

Figure 1.

Sustainability potential of traditional agriculture