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Precision Agriculture’s Economic Benefits in Greece: An Exploratory Statistical Analysis

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Information and Communication Technologies for Agriculture—Theme IV: Actions

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As we are heading for the third decade of the twenty-first century, Precision Agriculture is the most modern way to improve agricultural processes/actions that take place on arable land, like harvesting, irrigation or fertilizer use. Its main idea is based on the concept that every farm has different needs across its area. So, Precision Agriculture offers the capability to customize decisions regarding inputs like water and optimize agricultural equipment use like an agricultural vehicle so as to improve outputs. As its use spreads across the globe, it is interesting to study the range of innovation diffusion on agriculture in Greece and see the differentiation of Greek districts, their innovative actions and economic outcomes that come up. To achieve this goal a study took place across Greece collecting 1032 answers from farmers on mainland Greece and Crete. The Ascending Hierarchy Clustering was used to process the data and the results demonstrated that some crop categories are more profitable than others and there are districts consisted of common characteristics. In addition, an innovation map was created, in conjunction with its benefits.

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    Athanasios Falaras & Stratos Moschidis

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Falaras, A., Moschidis, S. (2021). Precision Agriculture’s Economic Benefits in Greece: An Exploratory Statistical Analysis. In: Bochtis, D.D., Pearson, S., Lampridi, M., Marinoudi, V., Pardalos, P.M. (eds) Information and Communication Technologies for Agriculture—Theme IV: Actions. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 185. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84156-0_9

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