ABSTRACT
The community-based approaches of this chapter provide a hint to creating a way of thinking. Community-based precision agriculture is a new regional farming system to gain high profitability and reliability under regional and environmental constraints, promoted by expert farmers and technology platforms, by creating both information-oriented fields and information-added products, with supply chain management from field to table. On a single small farm, the farmer can better understand what is going on in each field, which enables variable-rate application for site-specific requirements with the farmers' knowledge and skills. The project team was organized by the Faculties of Agrotechnology, Communication Science, Economics of Development, Agribusiness, and Informatics and Environmental Engineering of the University of Pembangunan Nasional "Veteran" Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Community-based precision agriculture aims at high profitability and reliability under regional and environmental constraints, promoted by the expert farmers and/or the technology platform, by creating both information-oriented fields and information-added products, with aggressive access to food chains.
