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The agriculture industry has radically transformed over the past 50 years. Advances in machinery have expanded the scale, speed, and productivity of farm equipment, leading to more efficient cultivation of more land. Seed, irrigation, and fertilizers also have vastly improved, helping farmers increase yields. This book covers technologies that are extremely useful for the day-to-day operation of a farm or garden. The potential of new digital technologies in agriculture is astonishing. Linking farmers digitally would allow them to organize and share equipment, facilitate the sharing or exchanging of fields and support alternative supply and production channels, as well as promoting solidarity. Everything that can be measured can be improved. The agricultural plots are managed on the basis of observation, measurement and action against inter and intra-crop variability. Based on this reflection, agricultural experience is also gradually growing hand in hand with technology. Its smart tools and services enable the development of true precision agriculture. The precision-agriculture approach can also help reduce inefficiencies and waste. It works by refining current practices and does not encourage the exploration of alternatives. This is what scientists call "technological lock-in", with precision approaches reinforcing pesticide use rather than eliminating it. IoT sensors enable precision agriculture, helping farmers use as little water, power, and other resources as possible. Agriculture is in the early days of yet another revolution, at the heart of which lie data and connectivity. Artificial intelligence, analytics, connected sensors, and other emerging technologies could further increase yields, improve the efficiency of water and other inputs, and build sustainability and resilience across crop cultivation and animal husbandry. Technological innovations have greatly shaped agriculture throughout time. The technology of drones in agriculture is rising day by day fo

Shift happens though people cannot accept it or take time to accept it. Many of the past literatures on corporate sustainability never speak aloud of or, remain silent on Corporate Environmental sustainability. Some of them even argue that the natural stock/capital remains stable all the time. But, the ongoing changes and disasters like Tsunami, water and food shortage, climate change, inequalities and so on cannot be ignored. In fact, the figure shows the corporations realising the environmental issues in Business and interested to contribute to save the nature so as to get the global competitiveness. This conceptual paper provides insight of corporate environmental sustainability and natural capital with clear definitions and it has also tried to answer the question “Why corporations need to be responsible or accountable towards sustaining the natural capital?” through case study discussions. The benefits that corporations get while going green and the underlying limitations and challenges towards environmental sustainability has also been analysed critically.