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Agri-business at the edge of necessity Embracing Digitalization in Agriculture,
between Desire and Struggle
Food production needs to increase
by 70% by 2050 to feed the
growing population of the world.
…and the reason this is such a big problem is because the amount
of arable land is limited, declining in subphase and in quality. The
water levels are receding, so it's like the green devolution problem
How do we get to the significant increase in food production? what's the next level of change in agriculture?
The agricultural scientists have been thinking about this problem
the opportunity is to move into bringing computer data,
for quite a while, and the most promising approach right now
science and digital technology into the farming world
seems to be that of data driven farming. The ability to map every
into the KNOWLEDGE sharing MIX.
farm in the world and overlaid with lots and lots of data.
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