Policy and Regulation Navigating the AgTech Landscape
Aashna Sinha, Rahul Mahala, Meenakshi Sharma · 2024
Studying sustainable food systems, this study prioritizes social justice, economic viability, and environmental health. Taking advantages of opportunities and eliminating barriers, agtech serves as a catalyst for a sustainable future in food production. From the intersection of technology and agriculture, it provides insights into potentially revolutionary prospects. Artificial intelligence, human expertise, farming guidelines, algorithms, outsourced technology, and professional insights from farmers will all be combined in the future integrated digital food economy. Such an economy includes both the food and farming sectors, concentrating on particular regions and cases while utilizing the rapidly developing technological advances in the agricultural field. To assist stakeholders in navigating agricultural innovations, Co-Lab is creating tools like the Digital Innovation Navigation Assistant (DINA). Additionally, they plan to establish a Learning Network to enhance their competencies. To optimize drone technology's benefits for Indian agriculture, policy considerations are essential. The adoption of technology, small-scale farming, marginalized communities, research, private sector participation, and skill development programs should all be supported by government initiatives, subsidies, and regulatory frameworks. Maps of global AgriFoodTech ecosystems, their significance in the transformation of the food system, their impact on innovation, and their influence on public policy are the main topics of research. This research investigates the deployment of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology for agricultural production management, emphasizing its drawbacks and potential requirements for practical implementation.