2022- Focus will be on agritech, processing and entrepreneurship The year 2022 will witness spectacular growth in agriculture. United Nations is celebrating 2022 as the year of aquaculture and fisheries. The sector which has been badly affected by Covid 19 disruptions will try to regain precovid growth. Focus areas include increase in production, productivity, , processing, horticulture, automation, entrepreneurship, use of technologies and promotion of exports. Agritech sector will show robust growth through establishing more numbers of startups in agriculture. Digitalization will augment the processes in agri startups and will facilitate to develop new delivery models. These startups will make use of technologies like artificial intelligence, internet of things, smart farming, sensor-based farming, precision farming, drones, agri analytics and big data analytics. Lot of innovations will emerge during 2022. There will be a paradigm shift in agriculture towards agribusiness, food...
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Technology applications in Agriculture and Animal husbandry sector Dr.T.P.Sethumadhavan Recent CII study reveals that 30 percent of agriculture enterprises are running on profit, 35 percent at breakeven level and rest 35 percent activities are at loss. But Covid 19 disruptions have created new opportunities in agriculture and allied sectors. MSME sector which has been badly affected by Covid crisis is trying to promote agribusiness and agri industrial sector in the country. But this sector need location specificity and market centered production strategies. Appropriate market linkage is necessary for making the agriculture operations viable and sustainable. Moreover it requires good agricultural practices, technology and micro irrigation methods. Technology applications can be used very effectively for increasing production, productivity, reducing cost of production, maintaining quality and facilitating marketing in...