Agricultural development in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 posed quite a challenge, because of the narrowing of agricultural land caused by the conversion of land to non-agricultural functions. This is compounded by the lack of a young generation workforce (millennial) who are interested in working in the agricultural sector, especially in developing countries, as well as the diminishing benefits of experts in agriculture whose knowledge is not really used by farmers (death of expertise), because farmers are already much to know from Google. What is the right solution to solve the problem.
Very good question . This is a common problem realised seriously in most of the industrially advanced countries where non- agricultural land use overtakes the agricultural land use due to urbanisation triggered through flow of rural population towards urban areas. This has given berth to adoption of techniques like protection cultivation of fruits vegatables besides flowers , verical farming , roof farming, peri urban horticulture coupled with sensor based fertigation and application of AI as an integral part of production system. High density and ultra high density planting with fertigation and canopy management could find big success to ward off grwoing land availability , with the result, role of soil for success agriculture is increasingly being felt irrelevant in hydroponic production system....
Very good statement. Conventional agriculture by utilizing land as a container for cultivation is pursued with hydroponic technology, but other things will arise, because basically the increase in the production of rice and other foods, such as corn, wheat, and sorghum still require agricultural land for cultivation, and this is still very important. controlled by farmers.
Please see WRI's report: Creating a Sustainable Food Future. It provides a comprehensive menu of solutions for this challenge. In a nut shell, we need to Produce (more food on existing land), Protect (remaining natural ecosystems), Reduce (consumption of land intensive products such as beef and biofuels) and Restore (the approx 1 billion Ha of degraded land globally). Technical Report World Resources Report: Creating a Sustainable Food Future (...
Agriculture related works need to be repositioned, ie, the image and status of these works need to be changed positively. Moreover, economic benefits should be ensured through proper marketing activities and the producers should get correct price for their produces to give them adequate profit.
Dear Dr Mohamad Ikbal Bahua . I agree with Dr Anoop Kumar Srivastava . Thank you.
Please, see the following article about this subject:
file:///C:/Users/1513%20IRON/Downloads/processes-07-00036.pdf
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