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