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Mobile applications for crops management

Abstract:

Information and Communications Technology play an important role in the agricultural sector due to it helps to perform activities such as agricultural re-sources management. The efficiency in the crop production, i.e. produce more with less, is a challenge that must be addressed. Therefore, it is necessary to develop computer applications that help farmers and/or students of agronomy to perform activities such as treatment of plant diseases and pests, precision agriculture, and quality of production, among others. Smartphones and mobile applications have become part of the daily lives of people. Nowadays, mobile technologies offer optimal and integral solutions for agriculture. Hence, it is important to adopt these technologies for performing daily agriculture tasks. This work presents an evaluation and comparison of mobile applications for agriculture. This comparison considers the applications hosted in both Play Store for Android devices and App Store for IOS devices. Furthermore, this study considers the main characteristics required by farmers for performing crop control and monitoring such as pests and insects’ management, meteorological aspects, machinery, working hours, geolocation, harvest time, tasks management, areas of cultivation, among others.