Research Sources

The first article our group has decided to use in our research paper on how egyptian technology has effected the technology that we use today is the article titled Bulk Soil Electrical Conductivity as an Estimator of Nutrients in the Maize Cultivated Land. This article entailed many information on how technology nowadays is available to us in which we can use the conductivity of the soil in which maize and other crops grow in order to determine the amount of nutrients are in the land, and thus, how many nutrients the plants themselves will hold. Our group chose to use the quote, "Laboratory soil test is usually time consuming and laborious... since farmers cultivate annual crops more than once a year, this leads to delay in remedial action for the coming season... hence, rapid measurement and monitoring of soil nutrient variability is needed to satisfy the precision farming requirements". This clearly shows the need for farmers to have rapid measurement systems and monitoring of the soil nutrients in order for farming technology to continue to grow with the growing demand for food in the world today.

The second article that our group decided to use was titled Precision Agriculture Concept: Distribution Pattern of Selected Soil and Crop Characteristics Influenced by Fertigation. We chose this article because it clearly defines the technology involved in modern day farming and the extent in which farmers use technology to their advantage. We figured that this article would help our research because by bettering our understanding of how farming technology works today, we are able to be more understanding as to how technology, such as agriculture, has developed over time beginning in Ancient Egypt. According to the article, "average annual temperature of 16.7° C, annual freezing days of 76 days and the annual rainfall of 116.9 mm are climate data of experimental site." This is a statement used in determining the perfect spot to grow the crops. It is amazing as how much thought and technology is used today in something that is as simple as growing a plant, but that is where society is leading us and technology is at the forefront of the future. Although, we can not truly understand how we got where we are today without recognizing how we have developed over time dating back to Ancient Egypt which we will continue to investigate in our research paper.

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