1. Precision Agriculture as an answer to the world’s increasing population and land losses By: SEYED RABET 4-27-01

2. Earth, a finite entity Population is growing Farm land is disappearing Air is getting polluted Water is getting polluted Natural resources are being diminished What is our destiny?

3. History of Earth’s population Dawn of man kind -----18th Century, 1 Billion 18th-----19th century,1.7 Billion 19th century-----Present, 5.9 Billion Latest figure, 6,142,955,440 taken on 4-23-01 Max carrying capacity-----10 Billion Max carrying capacity-----exceeded in 30 yr

5. Population growth World population is increasing in spite of : -Decline in fertility -HIV/AIDS -Wars -famine -plague

6. Where ? World’s less developed nations, Africa,Asia,Latin America World’s population growth----- 96% World’s Births-----90% World’s Deaths-----77% Global natural inc (#births - #deaths) -----99%

10. World Vital Events Per Time Unit: 2001 (Figures may not add to totals due to rounding) ------------------------------------------------- Natural Time unit Births Deaths increase ------------------------------------------------- Year 131,571,719 55,001,289 76,570,430 Month 10,964,310 4,583,441 6,380,869 Day 360,470 150,688 209,782 Hour 15,020 6,279 8,741 Minute 250 105 146 Second 4.2 1.7 2.4 --------------------------------------------------

11. How about a place to stand on? How about a farm for each person?

13. Is Precision Agriculture the answer? Who is to blame ? Who is to worry? What is the answer? Who is to do something about it?

23. Who is better off? The one who knows how he is going, but does not know where he is going? The one who knows where he is going, but does not know how he is going?

24. Precision Agriculture, will it work? Want it to work Fine tune it to work Dedicate ourselves to making it work Scarifies Learn Teach Share our globe more friendly Try to reduce variability-----pop-----food

25. Reevaluate our globe, come up with a new prescription Pop pockets Pop growth Resources, fertile land Available Technology How to incorporate Precision Agriculture Globally, to make it work

26. Conclusion Global Pop Inc----- Israel, Egypt, Jordan, West Bank, and Gaza/yr Fertile land is being developed, eroded, polluted We have to fine tune our Economical, Agricultural, Technological pollicies

27. References U.S Census Bureau, International data base 5-10-00 People and places by Dr William Raun Agriculture in the middle east, Internet Will Roger Elementary School