Digital Agriculture: The Future of Indian Agriculture
D. M. Kadam *
Department of FMPE, CAE, JNKVV, Jabalpur, M.P, India.
Deepak Chouhan
Department of Agricultural Engineering, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Shahdol, M. P. India.
Tirtharaj Roy
Department of Floriculture and Landscaping, Faculty of Horticulture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, India.
Harshad A. Prajapati
Department of Horticulture, Krishi Vigyan Kendra, NAU,Waghai (Dang), India.
Nimisha Tiwari
RVSKVV, Gwalior, M.P, India.
Nirjharnee Nandeha
KVK, Mahasamund, IGKV, Raipur, CG, India.
Roopal Mishra
CAE, JNKVV, Jabalpur, M.P. India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Agriculture continues to be the dominant economic sector in India in terms of providing a living. Of the population, 58.2% are employed by it. The success of the agriculture sector determines the nation's social change and economic expansion. Although the amount produced by agriculture per person has been steadily increasing recently, the sector's GDP contribution has been declining. The main issue facing the so-called agrarian Indian economy is the slowdown in agricultural growth. Numerous factors contribute to the slowdown, including inadequate public funding for R&D and irrigation, ineffective input delivery, fragmented land, antiquated tenancy laws, a lack of contemporary market and rural infrastructure, unsuitable input pricing policies, and so on. Agriculture has embraced technology as a solution to all of these issues. Information and communication technology (ICT) and agriculture are coming together to create a new growth engine that makes all production, distribution, and consuming processes more efficient. The evolution of Indian agriculture and the concept of digital technology are the main topics of this paper.
Keywords: Digital, ICT, agriculture, technology, artificial intelligence, big data analytics, IoT