15. Precision Farming – Challenges for Indian Agriculture
Small Land holdings: Prevents IOT based solution
reach the required scale to realize economic feasibility.
Also affects affordability of the solution.
Infrastructure Challenges: Internet is the backbone of
any ICT based solution. Reach of connectivity and
power to rural/farm area is the key.
Low Awareness : Farmers, Agri-extension and even
manyAgri-institution have lower awareness/details of
ICT use cases in agriculture.
Lack of R&D Investment in ICT Space:There is a lack
of R&D in institutions and demonstration at larger
scale/frequency on the farm/Farmers’ field.
Govt. Support for affordable ICT infrastructure: Till
the time it reaches economy of scale, govt support to
make ICT solution affordable is vital.
16. SomeThoughts !
Promote FPO and Clusters for ICT Adoption: FPOs
and Farmer Clusters can provide the needed scale.
They must be supported to be “early adopters”.
R&D Investment in ICT Space : Agri-institutions have
a big role to play in creating IOT - based solution in the
agriculture sector.
Awareness Campaigns : Support is needed forAgri-
institutions to propagate the idea (ICT- Solution)
through demonstration and extension services.
Govt. Support for affordable ICT infrastructure:Till
the time it reaches economy of scale, govt support to
make ICT solution affordable is vital.
But climate change will not affect everyone equally. Lower-income economies and populations may face the biggest impacts. This is because they often depend on agriculture, or rely on natural capital, both of which are vulnerable to a changing climate. And with less financial means to adapt, the poor could be left far more exposed—a trend true within both developing and developed countries.
India may become one of the first places to experience heat waves that cross the survivability threshold for a healthy human being resting in the shade. The already vulnerable parts of the population could be the most affected.
Metcalfe's law states that the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system.
Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years.
