What is the Importance of statistics in agriculture?

Question

application of STATISTICS in different fields

Answer 1

If you mean statistical analysis of data through analysis of variance or regression analysis, then it is very important.  

If one studies the development of statistical analysis for experimental data you will find it's use was first (ok, I'm a bit egotistical) adapted and utilized by the agronomic research stations in the US, Britain and the rest of Europe.  The use of statistical analysis and experimental design was quickly embraced in all areas of agricultural science because of the ability to interpret the results correctly and then to successfully (and confidently) apply this newly garnered information to solving real world problems.  Many scientists will acknowledge without this connection the adaptation of new agricultural knowledge would have been much slower and there is no way to understand how dramatic that effect would have been seen in the world at large.

If you mean the use of agricultural statistics (corn yield in Iowa, milk production in California, bermudagrass consumption in Texas, etc) then this is one of the corner stones of the agricultural economics, a field that I possess little knowledge.

Hope this helped.

Answer 2

Statistics are used in the scientific study of agriculture as a tool  to determine if the differences in variables are real or due to chance. This translates to the farmer to let him know with confidence which varieties are better than other varieties or which fertilizer treatments will give better yields than others.