Information Systems in Agriculture.

Author : Kgati Amon Sibuthuma
Student Number: 786881

 WHAT IS AGRICULTURE?

It is the science of farming, which includes cultivation of the soil for growing crops, the rearing of animals to provide food, wool and other products essential to our lives.

 Information Systems is very important in agriculture because farmers need to know what is happening to their farms. Farmers need to obtain, process financial, technological, climatic information to manage and regulate their farms. In order for farmers to obtain the information they need to make decisions regarding their farms/ businesses they need resources that will enable them to gather the information. They will need the internet, computers to store the information and software components (News24 and other relevant applications) to know about the weather, to know about the minerals they need to grow their pants, the food their animals need, the amount of water their plants and animals need. They also need information systems to help them collect data about their productivity, and the profit they are making.

As information systems is basically the collection, process and storage of data, one cannot separate information systems and agriculture as the two are inter-dependent on each other, without information systems farmers would struggle to find the relevant information about their farms and on the other hand without agriculture, information systems would not be functional. Information systems is there to help people with whatever they want to know or find, The agricultural world is faster these days because of information systems.

As technology increases, the resources that enable farmers to gather information and make decisions increases and farmers are able to produce food, wool, etc.

Information systems in agriculture is as important

as the human heart to us humans.

 

REFERENCE:

 http://www.lighthouseis.com/agriculture-information-systems/useis.com/agriculture-information-systems/

http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/InformationSystems/