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- | Precision agriculture is a method of production in which an area of land is not uniformly, but site specifically cultivated. Pest-control, | + | Precision agriculture is a method of production in which an area of land is not uniformly, but site specifically cultivated. Pest-control, |
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+ | === Problems === | ||
+ | * Colony Collapse Disorder; Intense farming is associated with high efficiency, these extreme monocultures are now associated with the scarcity of bees. These insects depend upon wildflowers for most of their food. In Precision agriculture there are no patches of wildflowers along the edges of fields. The lack of wildflowers is thought to be one of the contributing factors to **colony collapse disorder**. See [[bee_keeping]] |