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Mobile technology in particular has led the way in the field of agricultural innovations. Mobile services are key for many small-scale farmers to help connect them with buyers and to provide them with current market information. Mobile services have not only helped farmers get their products to market, but they have also been influential in connecting farmers with knowledgeable experts who can help them to improve the health of their crops.

These technological advancements have additionally been influential in making agriculture a more environmentally sustainable practice overall. For example, solar power has proven an excellent source of renewable power for green houses in both urban and rural settings. Furthermore, smart irrigation tools have proven useful in monitoring moisture levels to help conserve water resources.

By taking advantage of revolutionary high-tech agriculture innovations, farmers around the world are creating a more profitable and environmentally viable food system


Last, gains in farm productivity have directly led to the increased affordability of food. A century ago the average household spent over one-fourth of their disposable income on food. Today, food spending – both for food eaten at home as well as food consumed in restaurants – requires only 9 percent of the typical household’s total budget.  

So, just as enormous gains in farm productivity allowed workers to develop and grow the manufacturing and service sectors, those gains also freed-up resources for households to spend on the outputs of those industries.

Are the productivity gains in farming over? Hardly! Experts see new technologies being adopted on the farm that will make the advances of a few decades ago seem quaint.

Farmers have always relied on information about farm conditions to know when to irrigate, provide nutrients to crops and give treatment to animals. In the past, much of this information was based on guesswork or “rules of thumb.” But no longer.  

Crop sensors and livestock biometrics are giving farmers access to a wealth of real-time data telling them the precise condition of their animals and crops. Treatments and applications will no longer be general, but instead will be precise in amount and timeliness. For example, rather than irrigating an entire field, farmers can determine what parts of their fields need water and exactly how much. This both saves money and improves production.

Farm equipment is also being taken to a new level. A long-time problem with tractors is the compacting of soil caused by their heavy tires. New tractor tire technology is being implemented to reduce this issue.  Also, environmentally-friendly farm machinery engines are being manufactured. And yes, as you may have guessed, agricultural robots – dubbed “agbots” – may soon be coming to farms, just as may be driverless tractors and combines.

As data and information become increasingly available to farmers, the need to access and analyze the data becomes more important. Fortunately, new internet access for remote rural areas is being perfected, as are “agricultural apps” for smartphones and tablets to allow farmers to apply sophisticated decision-making techniques to the data.

There are other technologies on the way in customized seeding, drought resistant crops and environmentally-friendly and cost-efficient pest control. The technology revolution in farming started one-hundred years continues and will push farm productivity to new heights.
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