What is the role of digital technology in agriculture and digital transformation of agriculture in India?
Digital technology in agriculture can help to changes the farming system\methods
- helps to adopt climate smart agriculture
- can generate maximum output from limited\scarce resources.
Digital farming involves the use of varied technologies, including sensors, drones, precision irrigation systems, GPS-guided machinery, and data analytics and machine learning tools. Farmers rely on cutting-edge technologies to collect and analyze data from their farms to maximize their harvests. Digital agricultural technologies can monitor factors such as moisture, nutrient trends, soil composition, and wind patterns of arable land. It can help in generating real-time actionable insights for improving crop yield, controlling pests, assisting in soil screening, and providing actionable data for farmers, and reducing their workload. The recent expansion of digital technology in farming will accelerate growth by ensuring higher yields and sustainability by reducing water consumption and agrochemicals. Digital technologies including AI & ML, remote sensing, big data, blockchain, and IoT are remaking agri value chains and streamlining operations. Digital Technology and the 'Digital India' program help farmers to improve farm productivity and income in several ways. These are: Better Price for Crops: The impact of digital India can be realized through achieving better market pricing and reducing transaction costs. Challenges of digital agriculture. Some important challenges include the lack of awareness about the benefits of digital agriculture among farmers and rural residents, inadequate infrastructure and resources, unreliable internet connections, and a lack of skilled professionals. The adoption of digital technologies can help India to increase agricultural productivity, reduce waste, increase agricultural export, increase farmers' income and improve food and nutrition security. Apart from this, this will help in protecting environment and sustainable development of overall agricultural sector. The digital transformation of agriculture is enabling the collection of vast amounts of geo‐referenced information about growing conditions within the field and facilitating the automated implementation of spatially varying input applications. Farm machinery is becoming vast, better, and more productive. This is because of the role of technology in digital public infrastructure, allowing – more efficient cultivation of wider areas. Furthermore, vastly enhanced crops, irrigation, and chemicals are helping farmers raise yields. E-agriculture strategies help rationalize resources and holistically address ICT opportunities and challenges for the agricultural sector in a more efficient manner. Such strategies also help to generate new revenue streams and improve the livelihoods of rural communities.
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