A list of android, iphone, ipad and web applications that may be useful to those involved in mobile agriculture and technology.
In the coming years agriculture will change dramatically. A number of factors may coincide to see a 'green revolution' type evolutionary jump driven not by advances in synthetic pesticides and fertilisers but by changes in demographics and the information communication technology landscape.
Smartphone applications provide an opportunity for scientific outputs (that could greatly benefit growers) to be efficiently and rapidly deployed in the field where
they could be most useful. At present, in Australia many
agriculturalists don't see (enough) value in mobile applications,
therefore demand is low. This in turn prevents the delivery of
applications, by developers, of value to Agriculturalists.
Although up to 1/3 of Australian agriculturists already own a
Smartphone and some applications already available may provide
incremental benefit to growers, many still do not see it as reason
enough to purchase or upgrade to a Smartphone or to pay anymore than a
few dollars for an application. This is the agricultural mobile market 'problem'.
Recently, a thorough search of both the iOS AppStore and Android
market has revealed a growing list of Agricultural & Horticultural
Applications (AgApps) from Australia and around the
world. Application topics range from weather, grains, livestock,
irrigation, home gardens, dairy, horticulture and more.
As
the list of applications and possible benefits to the Agricultural user
in Australia grows it's hoped that demand will also develop, as will
the interest from governments to provide access to content/data and
developers to render that into user friendly applications.
The list of applications can be viewed and added to here: http://hin.com.au/Agricultural-Applications.aspx An Australian report on Mobile Applications and how they can help Agriculturalists make better decisions can be found here: http://hin.com.au/Resources/Mobile-Applications-in-Agriculture.aspx
Reproduced from e-Agriculture site
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