Precision Agriculture as an answer to the world’s increasing

population and land losses

By: SEYED RABET

4-27-01

Earth, a finite entity

• Population is growing

• Farm land is disappearing

• Air is getting polluted

• Water is getting polluted

• Natural resources are being diminished

• What is our destiny?

History of Earth’s population

• Dawn of man kind -----18th Century, 1 Billion

• 18th-----19th century,1.7 Billion

• 19th century-----Present, 5.9 Billion

• Latest figure, 6,142,955,440 taken on 4-23-01

• Max carrying capacity-----10 Billion

• Max carrying capacity-----exceeded in 30 yr

Population growth

• World population is increasing in spite of :

-Decline in fertility

-HIV/AIDS

-Wars

-famine

-plague

Where ?• World’s less developed nations,

Africa,Asia,Latin America• World’s population growth----- 96%• World’s Births-----90%• World’s Deaths-----77%• Global natural inc (#births - #deaths)

-----99%

World Vital Events Per Time Unit: 2001

(Figures may not add to totals due to rounding)------------------------------------------------- NaturalTime unit Births Deaths increase-------------------------------------------------Year 131,571,719 55,001,289 76,570,430 Month 10,964,310 4,583,441 6,380,869 Day 360,470 150,688 209,782 Hour 15,020 6,279 8,741 Minute 250 105 146 Second 4.2 1.7 2.4 --------------------------------------------------

How about a place to stand on? How about a farm for each

person?

Is Precision Agriculture the answer?

• Who is to blame ?

• Who is to worry?

• What is the answer?

• Who is to do something about it?

Who is better off?

• The one who knows how he is going, but does not know where he is going?

• The one who knows where he is going, but does not know how he is going?

Precision Agriculture, will it work?

• Want it to work

• Fine tune it to work

• Dedicate ourselves to making it work

• Scarifies

• Learn

• Teach

• Share our globe more friendly

• Try to reduce variability-----pop-----food

Reevaluate our globe, come up with a new prescription

• Pop pockets

• Pop growth

• Resources, fertile land

• Available Technology

• How to incorporate Precision Agriculture Globally, to make it work

Conclusion

• Global Pop Inc----- Israel, Egypt, Jordan, West Bank, and Gaza/yr

• Fertile land is being developed, eroded, polluted

• We have to fine tune our Economical, Agricultural, Technological pollicies

References

• U.S Census Bureau, International data base

5-10-00

• People and places by Dr William Raun

• Agriculture in the middle east, Internet

• Will Roger Elementary School