Economic analysis of precision technological cultivation of winter oilseed rape

Abstract

By using precision farming and animal husbandry systems, we can optimize resource use and reduce wastefulness and loss. The basis for well-functioning precision agriculture is the immediate and continuous recording of accurate data at the point of cultivation, followed by processing and analysis of the data. This requires a change of approach not only by developers and machine manufacturers, but also by farmers, to turn data into decision-support information that can be quickly made available without external assistance.

In our work, we want to analyze the economics of autumn oilseed rape production in an agricultural company whose crop production sectors are considered to be at the forefront of precision technologies at national level. The company has decades of professional experience in rapeseed production. The principle that the more intensive a cropping system, the more benefits there are from the use of site-specific technology, is fully applied in the enterprise under study. With high input material use, proper positioning is more important, and increasingly expensive production costs are recovered faster through the use of automated steering and non-overlapping cultivation. The aim of this work is to demonstrate the efficiency of rapeseed production economic situation in 2021-2022. Using a technological and economic approach to production, we have highlighted opportunities for more economical and profitable production.