The 2020 datasheet on the world population shows the global population is 7.8 billion in 2020. The United Nations (UN) has estimated the population to reach 9.9 billion by 2050. The population’s overall growth will be 25% in the coming 30 years, between 2020 and 2050. Simultaneously, the number of people moving to urban areas is increasing to find better livelihood opportunities. Agriculture is becoming difficult with global warming and climate change resulting in extreme and unpredictable weather conditions. Thus, many people are quitting agriculture, and youth is shifting to metro cities and urban areas, searching for better income opportunities.
The pressure on agriculture is increasing due to changing lifestyle of urban and metro cities. The agricultural land is limited and reducing with industrialisation and civilisation. To satisfy changing food habits and consumer demands, farmers need to produce various crops in sufficient quantity. The consumer is becoming aware of the food they consume, and they want to know every detail of the food product they purchase, from farm to supply chain to their plate. Thus, traceability is becoming a new essential in agriculture. It is possible only if the agriculture and food value chain is connected efficiently. Traceability systems take input data from each individual in the supply chain and make it available for users willing to know the food product’s details.
Traceability is still emerging, but agriculture technology was introduced about four decades ago. Due to unproven capabilities and lack of experimentation, it couldn’t do justice to the potential of using technology in agriculture. Slowly, institutes, companies, organisations, governments and investors doing research & development in agriculture technology understood the importance of leveraging the usage of technology and assuring fixed income to farmers by insurance or other policies. It brought a remarkable change in the adoption and experimentation by the use of technology in agriculture.
The majority of agriculture technology developments happened in the last decade, gradually raising the global market for it. To grow nutrition-rich food in sufficient quantities to feed a growing population needs maximum deployment of the technology in agriculture. It is vital to maintain agricultural yield quality while improving the amount. The past evolutions focused only on productivity and lack in quality and farmer’s income. The use of technology in agriculture is the combination of the three while reducing the carbon footprint on the environment. Thus, it is important to use technology in agriculture.