1ST INTER-REGIONAL
SMART AGRICULTURE FORUM
24-26 September 2018
Khartoum, Republic of Sudan
Agricultural know-hows are advanced to proliferate production, resolve the biological and socio-economic constraints that are related to the crop production mechanisms. In the course of the past three decades, an increasing realization has resurfaced with requirement of technology to be tailored in order to cater the convenience of farmers, workforces around the agricultural arena and the sustainability objectives. In order for agronomic technologies to serve the need of the masses, employment of advanced analysis to provide for best-fit resolutions is required.
Smart farming techniques reduce the ecological footprint of agriculture. Minimized application of inputs, including the use of pesticides and fertilizers, in such systems will lessen leaching glitches as well as the release of the greenhouse gases.
Business prospects for the entire value chain, from input suppliers and technology to farmers, processors, and the other work forces. Cost-effective for the farmer with almost minimal inputs and labour as well as an increased reliability of spatially aggregated data will reduce risks.
Smart agriculture has the prospective to lift consumer acceptance due to better product quality refined by optimized management. Data is recorded by automated sensors, necessary for prioritizing the application of assets while the need for administrative surveillance is reduced. It also provides an intensive path out of locked-in equipment and practices characterized by strong divergence and market subdivision. It also minimizes the risk and waste encountered by the traditional farming methods.
The transparency of production process will rise due to the Information Communications Technology which sanctions record-keeping as to which farm manufactured a certain product under which conditions. This offers a potential for a direct form of interaction among the farmers and consumers.
Digitalization for disease treatment or monitoring livestock in a more individualized way that customers, farmers, and decision-makers are won over by the reimbursements of this incorporated technology. It bargains a path towards sustainable agriculture due to the diversification of technologies, livestock and crop production mechanisms, and networks across the agronomic arena.
With the impending use of IoT "Internet of Things" that incorporates agricultural machinery in order to manage the standard farming conditions, the farmer can serve as both a scientist as well as a watchdog, keeping an eye out on all possible situations. It enables the conception of a sensor network that allows continuous monitoring of the agricultural arena. By means of information exchange and development of informal information systems that can supplement the formal information system of monitoring authorities.
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