Climate Smart Agriculture for Economic and Environmental Sustainability

Dr. Aitazaz Farooque will discuss his work on Climate Smart Agriculture Practices to Ensure Economic and Environmental Sustainability

Agriculture is a key resource to ensure food security on the planet. The increasing world population demands more food for survival, as agricultural land is shrinking because of urbanization and intensification. Agriculture production contributes significantly to global warming and is related to climate change which is very likely to affect food security at the global, regional, and local level.Agriculture production typically involves uniform applications of agrochemicals during a growing season, ignoring spatial and temporal variations in soil/crop/weather and topographic attributes that exist within fields. Uniform application not only increases the production cost but also adversely affects our environment (increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, nitrate leaching into subsurface/groundwaters, nutrient runoff into water bodies, damaging aquaculture and fisheries, and deterioration of air quality).Sustainable agriculture production requires discoveries, innovations, and technical skill, which need to be integrated into traditional farming to achieve targeted applications on an as-needed basis. Hence, there is an emerging need for increased production efficiency, profitability, and environmental protection, but these cannot be achieved if the agriculture fields are managed uniformly. This situation emphasizes the need to develop smart technologies that are capable of encountering spatial and temporal variations within the agriculture fields in real-time to achieve targeted applications of agrochemicals on an as-needed basis. Targeted applications of agrochemicals can improve productivity, increase profit margins, and minimize environmental risks.

Dr. Aitazaz Farooque is working as an Associate Professor &amp; Industry Research Chair - Precision Agriculture (PA) at the Faculty of Sustainable Design Engineering, University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI). Dr. Farooque’s research focuses on fundamental understanding and development of state-of-the-art precision agriculture technologies for Eastern Canada’s agriculture industry. Dr. Farooque is actively working on machine vision, application of multispectral and thermal imagery using drone technology, delineation of management zones for site-specific fertilization, deep learning, artificial intelligence, electromagnetic induction methods, remote sensing, and digital photography technique for mapping, bio-systems modeling, hydrological modeling, artificial neural network, analog and digital sensor integration into agricultural equipment for real-time soil, plant, and yield mapping. Dr. Farooque was selected as one of the Top 125 researchers of Canada to receive NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement Research Grant. He has supervised/co-supervised 3 PhDs, 16 MScs, 1 PDF, 3 research associates, and 30 undergraduate summer students over the past 6 years. Dr. Farooque has published 57 peer-reviewed journal articles, 3 book chapters, 60 conference proceedings, 40-industry presentations at meetings and field days, and 19 keynote/invited talks at various conferences and professional events in relation to precision agriculture. Dr. Farooque has received various regional and national awards in recognition of his excellent contribution in research and teaching, i.e., Young Engineer Award 2020 - Canadian Society for Bioengineering, Scholarly Endeavor Award 2020 – UPEI Faculty Association, UPEI Presidential Award for Combined Achievement 2019 (Teaching, research, and service) and Engineers PEI Award for Engineering Excellence 2018. Dr. Farooque is a registered Professional Engineer in both PEI and Nova Scotia and has secured over $7M in research funding from various provincial, federal and industry funding agencies.

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