2024 begun with farmers across the world raising their voices and protesting as they are being hit by falling incomes, environmental regulations, and competition from imports. Many farmers complain they feel caught between conflicting public demands for cheap food and climate-friendly processes while raising input prices makes significant hits to their bottom line.
The most important question for agriculture is how to continue to produce more but better, how to tackle climate change while achieving higher productivity.
Technology is thus emerging as a key ally in this path. Technology solutions support farmers to optimize their practices to overcome financial burdens and make more of a well-deserved profit while benefiting the planet.
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Stronger Motivation for Technology Adoption
A decade of digitalization in agriculture has passed, while the adoption at medium-sized and small farms has fallen significantly to less than 5% in the majority of markets, making the digitalization of agriculture still early stage, but with a lot of potential.
Some of the obstacles that stand in the way of digital technology adoption are connectivity issues, budget constraints, and an overall skepticism towards AI-generated predictions. However, external pressures like climate change, inflation, supply chain inconsistencies, regulations, and the overall need for higher productivity act as catalysts pushing farmers toward technology adoption.
By witnessing the tangible benefits technology brings to their farm businesses and overcoming economic challenges, farmers are becoming more motivated to use technology in their work.
Farm management software (FMS) like AGRIVI 360 Farm Enterprise is particularly promising because it can equip farmers with data and information to efficiently manage their operations while simultaneously focusing on sustainability.
Farm Management Solution for Sustainability and Profitability
FMS is the key step of the technology implementation in a farm because it serves as the foundation for all other digital solutions. It provides a centralized platform for data collection, analysis, and management, allowing farmers to make informed decisions based on real-time insights into farm operations. Without it, managing multiple other digital solutions can be challenging and may not deliver the expected outcomes.
The impact of FMS on sustainability is not just theoretical—it’s tangible. AGRIVI clients worldwide report significant reductions in resource consumption and environmental impact.
Namely, through real-time data and analytics, FMS assists farmers in optimizing resource use, minimizing the environmental footprint, and calculating precise quantities of inputs like fertilizers and water.
FMS enables farmers to make informed choices on planting, irrigation, and pest control. It also monitors environmental factors like soil health, weather, and crop performance, allowing farmers to adapt practices in real-time, leading to enhanced yields and crop resilience. With its data-driven guidance, it also supports farmers to perform sustainable practices such as crop rotation and reduced tillage, enhancing soil health and water retention, and ultimately reducing environmental harm.
However, without productive and profitable crop production, sustainable agriculture would be just fiction, not reality. Thus, encouraging sustainability in agriculture practices must be followed by enabling farmers to overcome financial challenges and secure profit and livelihood.
Concretely, implementing AGRIVI farm management software enables total cost savings from 10 to even 20 percent, and up to 15% profitability increase. Moreover, if AGRIVI farm management platform is used fully, to secure high yield and crop quality, and to optimize costs, farms can strong return on investment, even 8-12 USD back for every 1 USD invested in AGRIVI platform.
The End of “Business as Usual” Farming
Sustainable agriculture is not a choice but an imperative. As the world struggles with issues related to food security and environmental concerns, leveraging technology like farm management software provides optimism. It empowers farmers to make data-driven decisions that benefit both their bottom line and the planet.
There is much room to grow in helping farmers overcome challenges, making their farm operations more efficient while maintaining profitability, and making necessary changes toward more sustainable agriculture.
Being at the forefront of digital transformation in agriculture for a decade, we at AGRIVI are aware that the path is not simple, but we see positive results around the globe. Farm management software is not just a tool, it is a daily support of experts and data that encourage farmers to thrive and change.
