Welcome to the Precision Agriculture Research Program at the Department of Engineering , NSAC

Our research is responsive to the changing requirements of the Northeastern North America wild blueberry industry in the 21st century. Major thrust areas are spot-application of herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers in wild blueberry cropping systems. This research program is playing an important role in developing systems (sensing and control systems) that are economical, environmentally sound, and easily adopted by wild blueberry growers, producers and manufacturers. Viable new technologies will be patented and marketed commercially as they significantly reduce input costs, increase profitability while minimizing environmental impacts. Thus the most commercially viable systems will be incorporated into standard equipment with the help of commercial developers/ manufacturers. The precision agriculture systems are farmer friendly and capable to collect necessary information real-time for spot- application of agrochemicals.