THE FUNCTION AND POTENTIAL OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN ENHANCING AGRICULTURE
Rakesh Kumar Giri
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
Saisha Institutions, Chennai
Abstract. There are several challenges facing the agro-industrial sector in developing countries, such as the need to increase food production and yield and offer employment possibilities to rural and disadvantaged communities. Global issues and quick advances also affect the agricultural sector. The data presented above indicates a high demand for information and information technologies (IT), which can be used to improve agricultural output and marketing while addressing new challenges. However, the potential of IT in agriculture is not fully realized. The agriculture industry and rural areas have embraced contemporary IT more slowly than other economic sectors, which have embraced it more rapidly. The study intends to investigate the function, potential, and contribution of IT in agriculture as well as to outline ideas for its application in different areas of the agricultural industry. Information technology (IT) has a lot of potential to help farmers and other stakeholders boost the productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness of agriculture, according to our findings, which are backed by economic theory and the corpus of existing literature. However, the stakeholders must contend with a number of challenges and problems related to the deployment and usage of IT.
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Source: International Journal of Applied Mathematics
ISSN printed version: 1311-1728
ISSN on-line version: 1314-8060
Year: 2025
Volume: 38
Issue: 2
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