Digital Farming: The Beacon of New Age Agriculture for Feeding Billons in India
Journal Title: IOSR journal of Business and Management - Year 2018, Vol 20, Issue 4
Abstract
Sustaining in remote areas of the world, struggling to nurture crops on tiny plots of poor land, farmer of India overuse macro fertilizers and miss the benefits they could gain from micro-fertilizers appropriate for their crops and soil. They also have no scientific understanding of pest life cycles, and thus often experience crop failure when a preventable infection or infestation arises. Now, new Agro-input companies have come up with the products—including fertilizer, seeds and pesticides—to help these farmers grow healthier, more abundant crops. However, these companies are failing to reach smallholder farmers with the products and product advice they need. With no access to meaningful market information, these companies struggle to develop aggregate demand forecasts required to drive costs out of the supply chain and maximize sales. Smart Farming is the new industry which is combining large data sources with advanced crop and environment models to provide actionable on-farm decisions. Digital/ Smart Farming is structurally similar to the concept of ‘Industry 4.0’. Smart Farming in India, already is a reality in some areas: for example, GPS guidance systems is used for controlled traffic farming, site-specific fertilization or plant protection measures as part of a full production/input cycle using proprietary cloud-based connectivity. So, automated data processing and completely integrated, harmonized networks still present a not-so-distant future for agriculture and agricultural machinery. Dedicated efforts by all concerned stake holders are needed to realize this future vision. Besides the exchange of agricultural specific data concerning field and crop operations, there also is a requirement of standardizing more transaction related data exchange with other actors in the supply chain.
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Dr. Susil Kumar Sarangi
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