Precision Farming can raise more than $500 Billion in GDP by 2030
The growth of technology in Indonesia increasing along with Industrial Revolution 4.0. Based on the World Economic Forum (2016), growth acceleration supported by the technology of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), quantum computing, etc.
Changes in every new customer experience, collaborative innovation, and adding the value of products are important things that impact the variant business sector. Either on the agricultural sector that becomes one of the keys to Indonesia's Food Security.
On Industrial Revolution 4.0, Precision Farming is the keyword on agri-tech development. Precision farming is an agricultural concept to optimize water usage to achieve maximum output and decrease environmental impact,” Says Nugroho Hari Wibowo, as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of BIOPS Agrotekno.
Precision farming tries to minimize the usage of inputs such as water, fertilizer, or pesticide to produce maximum agricultural output and not degrade the environment. This concept includes modern agriculture because this connecting various data and information in decision making on the field.
“Because of that, the Precision Farming use various information such as weather information, field position, soil condition, and various factor that connect with agriculture to calculating how many water usage for plant or variant, and plant’s fertilizing time,” said the man who also a graduate from Engineering Physics ITB.
Reported from McKinsey & Company about Agriculture Connectivity that supported by technology development, it can be impactful for the potential of increase agricultural output productivity and income for countries.
Therefore, the development of Precision Farming is important because that impactful to the world economic sector, especially for Indonesia.
BIOPS Agrotekno as one of the Agri-Tech StartUp in Indonesia always encourages Precision Farming through ENCOMOTION with M2M IoT Concept (Machine To Machine-Internet of Things). This product can monitor the environmental conditions and controlling irrigation precisely and can access through smartphones in real-time. Hoping with ENCOMOTION, we can bring a New Era of Agriculture to Indonesia.
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