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The Future of Agriculture

The Future of Agriculture 
Agriculture will face many challenges in the future and the growing population will require a drastic increase in food
supply.Every sector of man’s activities continues to experience advancement, especially with the advent of technology. With this understanding, it is important that everyone gets to understand what the future of the sectors look like? So we look into what the future holds for the agricultural sector.

The key feature to the future of agriculture is known to be Smart Farming. Smart farming entails the use of modern technology to improve existing farm practices in order to increase the efficiency and ultimately the quality and quantity of farm products. The major technological tools that’ll facilitate smart farming include:

1.Artificial Intelligence (A.I)


The use of A.I – powered mobile applications such as Plantheus, Agrivi, and Plantix will help to.
  • Diagnose crop diseases.
  • Suggest solutions.
  • Aid communication with local farmers. 
  • Improve and increase crop yield. 


2.Drones and Rovers


By equipping aerial vehicles (drones) with surveillance technology and through the use of little A.I.
  •  Farmers will be able to monitor hundreds of acres of farm land  from one place
  •  This technology help them to address land and crop issues in real-time.

3.Internet of Things (IoT) and Sensors

IoT connects and integrates objects, people, information and systems for intelligent production and services, and will be used to advance precision, broad reach and efficiency in agriculture.
All these tools will generally help to improve; seeding and planting, harvesting, weed control and crop maintenance, watering and irrigation.

4.Precision farming

  • Precision farming technologies can help eliminate uncertainty or at least further reduce risks.
  •  Precision farming involves gathering data via connected hardware like GPS-equipped tractors or sensors.
  •  Using technology, the information collected can be analyzed to gather relevant agronomic analysis.
  •  Farmers can then make field-zone-specific decisions in their daily operations.
  •  In a country like India with 11 agro-climatic zones and varying cultivation practices, this can really help farmers increase farm productivity.

5.Continued digitalization

  • People get excited about driverless cars, but this technology will likely be even more quickly adopted in agriculture. 
  • Self-driving tractors, drones and robots guided by a farmer’s phone or tablet will enable 24/7 farming during critical times of the season. 
  •  The integration of artificial intelligence, satellite imagery and sophisticated predictive software will help farmers make key decisions in real time, saving time, money and maybe even a crop from the devastating impact of pests or extreme weather.

6. Focus on soil health

  • Soil health could very well be the next frontier in farming. 
  • The benefits of reduced tillage in preserving soils and preventing erosion and moisture loss, we are still in our infancy regarding the complexities of the soil biome. 
  • Bayer’s new global partnership with Ginkgo Bioworks is just one example of the many ways Bayer is approaching this new frontier. This new company will look to improve plant-associated microbes and will focus on nitrogen fixation and utilization, which is a crucial need in most crops. If successful, this research could reduce the cost of crop fertilization, while driving down greenhouse gas emissions and the potential for runoff into waterways.

7.Drip irrigation

  • Agriculture accounts for 70% of all water usage. 
  • The agriculture industry needs to focus on improving water quality and also address water scarcity. 
  • On the water scarcity topic, Bayer implemented the DripByDrip program in partnership with irrigation pioneers Netafim to deliver targeted crop protection via drip irrigation. This method uses sensors and technology to precisely deliver water and targeted crop protection treatments based on specific geographic needs, pest and disease pressures as well as plant life cycle requirements. This water conscious solution also translates into economic savings for farmers.

8. Enhanced hybridization

  • The use of hybrid seeds enables better heterosis in unfavourable soil and climatic conditions such as saline soils and rainfed ecosystems. 
  • Better water stress tolerance in hybrids ensures good yields even in case of low rainfall as witnessed over the last few years.
  • Short duration hybrids produce more in less duration and thus consume less water.
  • Hybrid seeds with inbuilt traits can provide additional disease tolerance. This saves two to three sprays, reduces chemical use on plant and minimizes residue level of chemicals in soil and water. 
  • In hybrid rice, extra root area oxidizes more thus reducing methane emissions by 10-15%, which helps reduce global warming.

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