Digitalization has the potential to revolutionize agriculture, especially for small and marginal farmers, by addressing problems like low productivity, restricted market access, and insufficient resources.

Web-based systems can provide farmers with real-time weather information, crop advisory services, and market prices, enabling them to make better-informed decisions.

Precision agriculture and IoT sensors enable the optimum use of water, fertilizers, and pesticides, reducing expenditure and the effect on the environment.

Online marketplaces and e-commerce sites allow farmers and customers or organizations to pay each other directly, cutting out the middlemen and ensuring fair prices. Financial inclusion is achieved through mobile money and digital payments that enable farmers to access more readily credit, insurance, and subsidies that spur their growth.

Computer literacy courses and mobile applications unique to farmers can provide them with the ability to successfully adopt new technology.

Nevertheless, for digitalization to actually advantage small and marginal farmers, it needs to overcome some barriers:

Access to affordable devices and a dependable internet connection is necessary.

Training programs are necessary to enable farmers to comprehend and utilize digital tools.

Solutions must be affordable and tailored to the needs of small-scale farmers. Attempts at filling these gaps can make digitalization trickle down to the grassroots level and become an agent of change for the agricultural sector. What do you think are potential strategies for addressing these challenges?