--- title: How Can Agriculture Technology Preserve the Earth? description: How Can Agriculture Technology Preserve the Earth? image: https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/hubfs/joao-marcelo-marques-791496-unsplash.jpg --- [hello@psdtohubspot.com](mailTo:hello@psdtohubspot.com) [+91 8874569874](tel:+91%208874569874) Hours : Opens 10:00 AM To 07:00 PM [![logoHD](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/hs-fs/hubfs/logoHD.jpg?width=2500&name=logoHD.jpg "logoHD")](https://www.prophetic-technology.com/) - [Home](https://www.prophetic-technology.com/home) - [Subscribe](https://www.prophetic-technology.com/pt-blog-subscribe-opt-in-consent?hsCtaTracking=174cc371-9cdc-4b94-a32e-9007f0ac4dea%7C0776642c-2604-4695-8e3f-f7a74f10031a) - [Contact Us](https://www.prophetic-technology.com/contact-us-old) - [ai](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/ai) - [artificial intelligence](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/artificial-intelligence) - [agriculture](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/agriculture) # [How Can Agriculture Technology Preserve the Earth?](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/how-can-agriculture-technology-preserve-the-earth) To contribute to vital ecosystem services and preserve Earth’s remaining wildlife, it is imperative ... [Read More →](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/how-can-agriculture-technology-preserve-the-earth) - [supply chain (286)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/supply-chain) - [technology (138)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/technology) - [logistics (81)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/logistics) - [procurement (69)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/procurement) - [optimisation (65)](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/optimisation) Posted by [Dave Food](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/author/dave-food) on Apr 18, 2019 2:41:54 PM ![Dave Food](https://app.hubspot.com/settings/avatar/9fa060d35f0f962fafafe972c24035ae) Find me on: [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/davefood) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/davefood) [Twitter](https://www.twitter.com/davefood) To contribute to vital ecosystem services and preserve Earth’s remaining wildlife, it is imperative we *consume as little land as viable* and to *diminishing environmental footprint* as much as possible. To better cope with the rapid world-population growth, we will need a more efficient food production and distribution system which meets humanitarian needs. By all means, it’s a great challenge to achieve because, as statistics confirmed, around half of the world's inhabitable land is for agriculture of some kind, with a high percent of this used for *livestock farming*. Believe it or not, today's farmers have incredibly tech know-how, as they are taking significant steps to keep pace with recent digital changes disrupting all industries.  Their work is now entirely led by *sensor machinery* to make the job more manageable, but above all, to contribute both to these *imperative-sustainable needs* *of food* and the *world warming*. **What can you do as a farmer?** ·       **Sustainability –** Artificial Intelligence (**AI**) provides understandings on the way farmers could *enhance equipment, boost planning whilst reducing waste, and support them to make their work more cost-efficient*. By saving on water and power, farmers cope with the world demands for the *preservation of the environment*. ·       **Internet of Things** (**IoT**) all around – Rural **5G** connectivity could be an excellent tool for farmers because the more they are connected, the better. Each operation is controlled through sensors to handle work every single day efficiently; data from those sensors (weather sensors, to soil and water sensors,) is combined to take better decisions. ·       **Precision agriculture –** This is a management concept that encompasses all the data from sensors, plus any suggestion coming from Machine Learning (**ML**) which results on a supervision viewpoint for the farm. It even focuses on areas of harvest-land to adjust water needs, as well as fertiliser distribution. This type of management is getting closer to supervise also plant by plant. ·       **Self-driving tractors** use not only **GPS** support but **ML** too - through telemetrics and by the use of computer vision, *to grasp a full image* of where the rows locate and if it's the better time to plant, spray or harvest. For example, *drones* are useful tools to spray fertilisers if needed. ·       **Replacement of labour requirements.** *Farm occupation* has been consistently *declining* since it might be a *lack of workers*, high salaries going higher, or labourers decision to move to urban zones. *Tech* is there to *replace* such *vacancie*s. **How?** By covering the job with f*ewer workers who can manage more acres using the ultimate innovations tools*, whilst avoiding cropland from being under-exploited. According to some recent studies, the coming years will be the time in which *people would move away from meat and dairy consumption*. The causes are their *change of diet* that *rejects mainly animal products*, arguing the *animals slaughtered* for human consumption and the *exceeding* feeding of animals with synthetic *hormones or chemical fertilisers* used. For the most part, it’s the *effects* those practices bring to the *soil*, as well as to *humans*. Dairy, eggs, meat, and aquaculture not only imply proteins and calories in our diet, but it's mainly the *use of significant extensions of land* and *different emissions in food processes* the consequences of such effects*.* **LAST COMMENTS:** The *benefits* of this change in Agriculture are many, from *reducing the over-use* of global farmland, and *diminishing food-greenhous*e *gas emissions*. **AI**, autonomous machines and sensors combined, are now offering essential benefits to Agriculture. However, it will take time to make the necessary changes, especially at developing countries, to *deploying emerging technologies for the sake of an efficient transformation of global land-use patterns*; but then again, no doubt farmers have now an ever more critical **responsibility to engage on the World's sustainability**.   **Dave Food** [Prophetic Technology](https://www.prophetic-technology.com/) **Subscribe to our emails & exclusive free content.** **[![I want to subscribe](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/2979069/174cc371-9cdc-4b94-a32e-9007f0ac4dea.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/2979069/174cc371-9cdc-4b94-a32e-9007f0ac4dea)** - [ai](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/ai) - [artificial intelligence](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/artificial-intelligence) - [agriculture](https://blog.prophetic-technology.com/topic/agriculture) - - - ## Post Your Comments Here #### About Us Prophetic Technology is a team of dedicated people that combine their expertise in business domains with a passion to release potential.s every page it appears on. 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