{"id":3039,"date":"2021-05-25T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T06:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ht-apps.eu\/how-digital-transformation-is-revolutionising-agritech\/"},"modified":"2022-08-26T11:01:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T09:01:49","slug":"digital-transformation-agritech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ht-apps.eu\/en\/digital-transformation-agritech\/","title":{"rendered":"How digital transformation is revolutionising agritech"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Digital transformation generally refers to all sort of technological changes that affect all aspects of human society. Among all the fields of application in recent years, digital transformation is increasingly gaining ground also in\u00a0agriculture\u00a0sector. to improve the efficiency of global agriculture through the creation, maintenance and enhancement of free, reusable, open and specialised digital infrastructures for data and applications. This will enable the development of a global data infrastructure for agrifood that will help address climate change and food and water security. In this JOurnal article we look at how this digital revolution is taking hold.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What is Agritech?<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Agritech can be defined as the set of applications and integrations of state-of-the-art technologies with production and control processes in the agri-food sector. Generally speaking, the objective implied in the use of digital technologies in agriculture is to improve the\u00a0performance\u00a0of companies on the market, both in terms of efficiency and improvement of profit margins.<\/p>

This objective must also be traced back to the need to guarantee the long-term\u00a0environmental sustainability\u00a0of agricultural activities, given the progressive deterioration of climate and soil, as well as the marked trend towards an increase in the world population in the years ahead.<\/p>

The technologies used are mostly digital and they largely involve the use of hardware and robotic or mechanical components to achieve sustainability and efficiency. From an economic point of view, current and foreseen data suggest a significant explosion in the size of this\u00a0market<\/a>.<\/p>

Beyond the nominal amount of the market value, it\u2019s interesting the annual growth in investments in agritech, which stands at an average value of 12%.<\/p>

The most interesting aspect of agritech today and also in the near future probably concerns the combination of its operating dynamics (i.e. how technologies are implemented and used in production and monitoring processes) and the R&D activities.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The technologies used and the possible software solutions<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Currently, there are several possible specific technological applications for agriculture, each of which has a certain degree of intensity in the use (also combined) of robotics and software. The solutions that can be used in the agritech context give rise to various farming practices, currently in testing and consolidating phase, each having clear implications in terms of app development. The technical projects planned for the agritech world are part of a set of technologies that will enable easy and common access by creators and consumers of content from the agricultural ecosystem. These will include:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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