The Next Big Opportunity In Indian Agriculture
24 March 2019 7:18 AM IST
It seems almost unbelievable that one-third of food production all over the world each year goes to waste. But if the current state of?
- This is a huge problem in India, which is heavily reliant on the agricultural industry as a source of livelihood and extremely inefficient when it comes to farming practices.
- Such inefficiency can be attributed to poor farming practices, slow adoption of technology, farmers having traditional mindsets, overuse of pesticides and insecticides, among other problems.
- This exists as a serious challenge to the Indian economy and the world by extension as similar problems exist in many agrarian economies.
- IOT and Artificial Intelligence Field level data like microclimatic data, crop data and soil data are extremely important for farmers.
- It gives information about the current state of their crops allowing farmers to make more educated decisions as to when they should fertigate, irrigate etc.
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