It is an approach to farm management that uses information technology (IT) to ensure that crops and soil receive exactly what they need for optimum health and productivity. The goal of PA is to ensure profitability, sustainability and protection of the environment.

The term means a series of strategies and tools that allow farmers to optimise and increase soil quality and productivity putting in place a series of targeted key interventions, a result that can be accomplished thanks to the introduction of increasingly advanced technologies.

According to the results, experts found underground and surface waters conservation, rural areas development, increase of productivity and increasing income as the most important impacts of these agricultural technologies. Experts' attitudes indicate their positive view toward these kinds of impacts.

Innovations that explicitly capitalise on spatial variability, such as precision agriculture and mosaic farming hold promise through their potential to increase production efficiency while reducing on-site degradation of soil resources and off-site environmental problems.

It benefits to the environment come from more targeted use of inputs that reduce losses from excess applications and from reduction of losses due to nutrient imbalances, weed escapes, insect damage, etc. Other benefits include a reduction in pesticide resistance development.

What are the advantages of precision farming? It will enhance agricultural productivity and prevent soil degradation in cultivable land resulting in sustained agricultural development. It will reduce excessive chemical usage in crop production. Water resources will be utilized efficiently under the precision farming.