Digital Transformation of Indian Agriculture

Abstract

Agriculture remains the largest sector of Indian economy which provides employment to 60% of the population. The social conversion and the economic growth depends on the performance of the agricultural sector. Indian agriculture faced arduous trials to grow more food in the past. Even today, many of the problematic challenges are faced by agriculture in India. The challenges antagonizing Indian agriculture include waning productivity, fading and chastening natural resources, declining land fertility and ground waters, frequent pest attach, growing demand for quality food, rotten farm incomes, bitty land holdings and matchless changes in climate. Apart, the economic challenges include declining farmer income, farm productivity, post-harvest loss, huge debts. To trounce these problems, digitization in agriculture has been focused. The convergence of agriculture and ICT is a new growth area to help in efficiency in production, distribution and consumption. This paper focuses on understanding the concept of digital farming and problems on the issues of agriculture.