TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN AGRICULTURE
The use of new technologies and the opportunities they offer help agriculture in the process of adapting to the new demands of marketing, sales and crop profitability.
The technological and digital revolution that is transforming agriculture and its processes is helping to achieve optimal production yields, which, while traditionally calculated in terms of quantity of product or kilograms obtained per hectare, today, yields have come to be calculated in terms of the amount of money produced per hectare.
In addition to applying good, efficient cultivation practices, such as better quality seeds, or lowering production costs through partnerships between farmers, technological change is essential to achieve this profitability. With the use of new technologies applied to agriculture, it is possible to:
- Greater efficiency in the use of scarce resources, such as water or energy.
- Reduction of environmental pollution.
- Improved profitability of agricultural activity, producing higher quality food, healthier and oriented to the tastes and preferences of consumers.
- Advice on the most efficient management of irrigation, climate and fertilisation.
- Crop monitoring from drones, satellites or field sensors.
- Generate harvest forecasts, or probability of pest incidence.
