Is the precision agriculture going to solve the feeling of hunger ?

                    

Technological advancements needs to be able to solve the fundamental problems in the agriculture industry in the  countries where the agriculture is at the core of their culture. If the evolving  digital disruption is going to solve the feeling of hunger then it would be a great advantage to the human community. 1000s of farmers are committing suicide in India over the last few days and the greenish agricultural land is getting converted in to drought found areas. Indian villages are famous for their rich cultural heritage & blended variety of agriculture but now many people are ready to leave the agriculture and start moving towards urban area.

But today’s situation is reverse, with the evolution of this new corona virus and deadliest disease COVID_19, now everyone want to go back to their villages to have a peaceful and safe life. There was a time, entire world was fascinating about Cash Forecasting but forgot to build predictive models on healthcare and agriculture now it’s time to rethink and start forecasting on it.

Below are the main reasons for farmers to feel uncertainty about their future.

1. Lack of rain and Increase in water problems.
2. Crop loss due to the natural calamity.
3. Frauds by crop vendors and mediators.
4. Lack of electric power (Improper Electricity supply to village areas).
5. Lack of Infrastructure.
6. Fake seeds, plants and fertilizers from fake dealers and distributors (From my personal experience).

How our modern precision agriculture is going to help farmers on this?. Is this going to predict these scenarios?. What is the contribution of software industry to the agricultural area?. Only few of the mechanical and automobile sectors think about agriculture and developed few farming equipment like tractors and crop cutters. But none of them are coming forward to produce the farming machines which are available to farmers in a very affordable price.

I was just going through a Forbes magazine. The front page of the Forbes was saying “Humans are underrated”. Yes ..!That is equally proportional to this.

All advanced predictive mechanisms are developed only for the highly economical and completely developed countries and  its environmental factors, conditions. Couldn’t we able to produce the devices which would help our farmers in the under developed areas?

All advanced predictive mechanisms are developed only for the highly economical and completely developed countries and  its environmental factors, conditions. Couldn’t we able to produce the devices which would help our farmers in the under developed areas?. 

                  

There're need to be the devices developed which should be easily available in a very economical price for  farmers. This must help the farmers to identify whether the seed quality is right or not. This would help them in getting rid out of the fake seed dealers and distributors.

Though by seeing the soil color  and feeling its smoothness or roughness our farmers can tell whether the soil is ready for seeding and planting but they need digital instrument to get the accurate result.