Importance of Smart Farming Practices for Sustainable Agriculture

Abstract

Smart farming is a development that has emphasized information and communication technology used in machinery, equipment, and sensors in network-based hi-tech farm supervision cycles. Innovative technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT), and cloud computing are anticipated to inspire growth and initiate the use of robots and artificial intelligence in smart farming. Such groundbreaking deviations are unsettling current agriculture approaches. This paper investigates importance of smart farming practices for sustainable agriculture. This paper explores the development of agriculture into smart farming and technologies in smart farming. It was concluded that every piece of farmland is important to enhance sustainable agriculture by dealing with every inch of land using smart farming technologies. It has to be noted that transformation of agriculture in to smart farming in Africa will take some time as the nature of the sector is different and it was once a traditional sector. Issues such as communicating with older farmers, who could often not understand the technicalities of new technologies will also need to be addressed. However, with the rapid industrial revolution, every player in different industries will eventually need to embrace and adopt the change.