Digital Agriculture in India: Opportunities and Challenges

India is having extremely low income in Agriculture Sector; hence efforts must be taken to increase that income. For this, it's crucial to improve the effectiveness of the entire value chain and agricultural production operations. One method for improving productivity and revenue in agriculture throughout the world is digital agriculture. In this article, the researcher has described digital agriculture in the context of Indian Agriculture.And also identified the opportunities and challenges of the development of digital agriculture in India.

Farmers can remotely operate their fields through technology, which also makes managing agricultural activities more efficient. IoT will soon enable automatic real-time interaction, controlling, and decision-making since, as previously said, agriculture sensors, actuators, and equipment will all be connected. While reducing time and maximizing productivity and profit, this will need the least amount of human labour. The creation of decision support systems and data integration from many sources is the goal of cloud-based farm management platforms like SmartFarm and Agrivi. Growers now have access to information for dynamic management planning that was previously only available to corporate megafarms thanks to all of these.The researcher has found that reduced-cost technology, user-friendly portable gear, pay-per-use rental arrangements, legislative backing, and leveraging the strength of farmer collectives are crucial. Using more advanced agricultural technology is one of the most common strategies to increase farmers' revenue. The research indicates that the key to increasing productivity is the use of better technology.