Precision farming

• Precision agriculture is a farming management strategy based on observing, measuring and responding to temporal and spatial variability to improve agricultural production sustainability.
• Precision agriculture uses information technology (IT) to ensure that crops and soil receive exactly what they need for optimum health and productivity.
• This also ensures profitability, sustainability and protection of the environment.

Contract farming

• Contract farming involves agricultural production being carried out on the basis of an agreement between the buyer and farm producers.
• Sometimes it involves the buyer specifying the quality required and the price, with the farmer agreeing to deliver at a future date.

Cooperative farming

• Cooperative Farming is when several farmers in a village pool their land and agree to consider the combined plot as one large farm for cultivation.

Peri-urban agriculture

• The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations defines peri-urban agriculture as “agriculture practices within and around cities which compete for resources (land, water, energy, labour) that could also serve other purposes to satisfy the requirements of the urban population.”