Digital Initiatives and Innovations in Transforming the Horticulture Sector

Abstract

It is expected that digital interventions will play a key role in addressing global food security challenges and in helping farmers adopt climate-smart agriculture practices. It has major role in horticultural systems since the crop vary from annual to perennial in nature and quite distinct in their agrometeorological needs. Using emerging technologies like the internet of things (IoT)-enabled devices such  as  smart  agricultural  sensors  and  robotic  drones,  satellite  imagery,  and  GPS-enabled  instruments,  real-time  data  are  collected  on  soil,  crop,  hyper-local  weather  predictions,  equipment  available,  and other variables. This is supplemented by inputs from IoT and AI/ML-driven  predictive  analytics  software  to  enhance production and productivity of floricultural crops. Digital Smart interventions would make this sector more technology-driven productivity input and energy efficient, environment-friendly, complete value-chain development and globalization.