How Can IT Industry Help in Smart Agriculture?

It is a fact that agricultural activities consume nearly 70 percent of the earth’s water resources. Although they are global issues, every farmer should make appropriate changes around the place by leveraging technology.

FREMONT, CA: Like any other sector, agriculture has also gained technological developments. Farmers rely on the IT industry for several things, including managing farm operations. Indeed, IT has transformed how farmers take care of crops and livestock. In other words, e-agriculture has become a new phenomenon and is here to stay. It is also drastically modifying the processes in food production and farming.

Cloud Computing:

Cloud computing is an application that can help farmers manage their crops better and their business through its software-as-a-service (SaaS) features. Many start-up firms are budding in business applications committed to aiding the challenges faced by the agricultural sector. A few apps also help the farmers to create budgets and operational schedules based on their production plans. With the help of farming-specific software, farmers can efficiently take care of workforce management. It can also help chalk out the weather forecasts and progress the monitoring accordingly. 

Mobile Technology:

Mobile technology is transforming how farmers monitor and evaluate everything with pencil and paper into smartphones and tablets. Many applications have been designed, especially for field teams, to accumulate data in real-time. It also sends updates through mobile to the field teams, indicating to them the new assignments they have to manage. Apart from being helpful, it is one of the most cost-effective methods to collect data or access it in the fields.

Security Technologies and RFID:

RFID can help the farmers to track their cattle regularly, along with health monitoring and recording the database of each animal’s health history. Furthermore, during certified organic crop shipments, technology helps reduce forged and impure food transfers via security tagging.

Smart Farming:

Data analytics is widely used for precision agriculture, termed smart farming, as it helps the agri-businesses cut expenses and enhance yields smartly. The technology allows small-scale farmers to collect data from various sources and make better decisions. The most crucial application comes into action when the water sensors help in proper planning of the water usage, particularly in drought-prone areas, to eliminate various impacts of calamities.