Fecha de publicación: 28/09/1999 Fuente: Wipo "precision farming" PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a precision farming system facilitating the improvement of fertilizing or pest-controlling efficiency and the increase of harvest and the like and also the improvement of control function and labor saving through automatic control of fertilizing level or pest-controlling level regulation by automatically performing e.g. soil sample collection and thereby automatically making a soil map recorded with analyzed data or the like. SOLUTION: This precision farming system works as follows: soil sample collection and the specification of sample collection spots are performed automatically, and a soil map 51 recorded with soil data as a result of analyzing soil samples and sample collection spots is made automatically; wherein it is preferable that soil samples are automatically put, from a collection arm, into a sample tray specified with soil collection spots, and the preceding soil sample residuals adhered to the collection arm is automatically removed in soil sample collection operation.COPYRIGHT: (C)1999,JPO