Advantage of AI in Agriculture

Agriculture and farming are one of the oldest occupations in the world. It has gone through enormous revolutions with the observation and understanding of crops and other affecting factors in the field like climate. Agriculture is still in the process of developments and has adopted several revolutions like the Green Revolution, the White Revolution, Blak Revolution, Protein Revolution, Blue Revolution, and so forth. Now it is going through the technological process, also known as agriculture 4.0 or smart agriculture or precision agriculture. In this phase, technology is introduced in agriculture to make farming more manageable and more straightforward as well as meet demands for nutritious and sufficient food for the growing world population.

The agriculture industry has reached to 5 trillion USD (United States Dollar) worldwide. It is turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies in farm management solutions. These solutions aim to assist yielding healthier crops, monitoring soil, control growing conditions and pests, organising data for farmers and service providers and overall improving agriculture-related tasks. Another advantage of AI in agriculture is capable of managing the entire food supply chain and real-time market remotely. Agritech companies are focusing on improving AI-based farm management solutions such as drones, automated machines, training data for agriculture and communication between the agriculture value chain.

AI in agriculture is helping farmers in automating their farming activities. It is also applicable for tracking the usage of resources while providing precise cultivation shifts for higher crop yield with better quality. Agriculture apps are widely accepted and popular among existing farm management solutions due to least investment, availability, and easy to use GUI (Graphic User Interface). These applications are developed with different targets like broadcasting information, alerts, and updates or communication among machines from the field to service provider and farmers or communication among other technological solutions. Agriculture apps are customised while developed for particular company products or customer.

Farm management solutions can be single or integrated systems to carry out one or more tasks within the field. Modern solutions have agriculture apps, IoT (Internet of Things) and AI-based technology as essential parts to improve their efficiency and accuracy. Investors understand the huge upcoming impact of AI in agriculture, and thus, market size is increasing in this field rapidly. Upcoming technological advancements in farm management solutions will be able to provide useful application helping the world in mitigating food supply, security and safety issues for the growing world population.