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Traditional agricultural production is changing strongly in the direction of restructuring and revolution in the direction of sustainability and climate change adaptation.
The world population is growing steadily at 1.05% annually, adding to the total population of about 81 million each year. This poses challenges in food security and globally increases agricultural productivity.
Traditional agricultural production is changing strongly in the direction of restructuring and revolution in the direction of sustainability and climate change adaptation. Around the world, countries are racing at multiple levels to apply smart methods in agricultural production to increase productivity while ensuring safety.
NNVN introduces an article by Mr. Dhriti Satya, an expert in biotechnology and breeding, and founder of the agricultural organization AgriBioTechX, about trends in global agricultural production in 2021.
1. Smart agriculture
Smart agriculture is the application of artificial intelligence and modern means of communication and control in each production stage. With communication devices, farmers can connect to the equipment installed in the fields thanks to the sensor system to collect and analyze data.
Another concept used for this approach is the application of the Internet of Things (IoT). The whole cycle of data collection and processing is completely automatic, up to the farmer will be the option to wait for the final decision, on the health of crops and animals, on disease, soil, water or trend forecast weather...
The IoT is the starting point, when mass adoption will create a new revolution in agricultural production, optimizing an entire production system, delivering superior productivity compared to traditional farming while reducing minimizing disease risk and improving nutritional content in products.
2. Agricultural start-up
Traditionally, farmers work in professional organizations such as associations or cooperatives and when talking about farmers, they often think of the poor, less educated. But now the trend has given a different face as the industry welcomes new startup citizens.
On a global level, young people, investors, and young intellectuals are increasingly finding opportunities in the new agricultural revolution. The number of startups in agriculture is increasing, and rapidly increasing.
According to a report by financial advisory organization Maple Capital Advisor, in 2019, in India alone, agricultural start-up capital reached 244.59 million USD and is forecast to increase further in 2021. Even when Raging Covid-19, a startup like Bijak also raised 11.8 million USD for agricultural production. Agriculture is no longer a farmer's own land, according to many experts.
Also thanks to the wave of agricultural start-ups, the quality of agricultural products has changed positively because the capacity of investment as well as governance has been at a much higher level. Agricultural production is no longer dependent on season but year round, regardless of the weather, tropical fruits and vegetables can also be produced in hot sand deserts like the Middle East.
3. Cooperatives
This is a model associated with agricultural production and is not old. As a business, farmers through their organizations will have liaison with the government - policymakers, banks - capital hubs, or vertical links within a union. larger, in order to create more effective coordination in production, consumption and quality control.
4. Creativity in agriculture
New inventions in agriculture are creating a new revolution called high-tech agriculture. It plays a key role in improving productivity but still being environmentally friendly. The World Bank assesses that only high technology can help developing countries out of poverty.
There are a number of trends that will dominate agricultural production in 2021 and the years to come: Applying super-spectral imaging and algorithms to calculate productivity; Unmanned devices provide visual data to analyze factors of the environment, climate, disease ... and also participate as a mode of production; integrating techniques, data analysis, biotechnology to improve the quality of soil nutrition, animal nutrition; applying "blockchain" technology in order to have an "end-to-end" solution in the entire supply chain; applying genomic editing technology to create varieties of vegetables and fruits with higher yield, higher nutrition, better disease resistance, and more effective anti-oxidation.
5. Climate change adaptation
Global warming threatens crop yields, livestock and fisheries. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations develops a climate-smart agriculture (CSA) solution to address challenges that threaten food security.
CSA involves constantly developing technology, policy, and investment in a coherent package. Seed breeders are engaged in the creation of smart, adaptive, resilient and resilient crop varieties that change, and that is the goal of the CSA.
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