Evaluating Management Practices in Precision Agriculture for Maize Yield with Spatial Econometrics

Precision agriculture (PA) aims to provide data on soil, nutrient use, irrigation, and crops, guide management strategic decisions towards an efficient use of inputs, increasing production avoiding environmental problems due excessive accumulation fertilizers. In this paper, PA from a large Portuguese farm producing maize were used assess the effectiveness agronomic concerning fertilizer seed choice, water content, in terms crop productivity. The yield 2017 2018 was modelled as function manageable inputs unmanageable factors introduced control variables. Panel spatial econometric methods for specification estimation, dependence heterogeneity. model proved fit remarkably well could be good reference specifying models explain production; thus, helping researchers who need deal with huge amount that normally originates PA. Additionally, it can considered another tool managers, design evaluation their decisions.