The number of farmers using Agdata's tools increased by more than a tenth in 2019. Digital tools and peripherals have newly appeared on the fields of small farms and large enterprises, and setters and winemakers are also increasingly interested in them, they are also infiltrating livestock production. The number of fully digitized farms – those that use both digital software and IoT hardware as a normal part of their economy – has also grown significantly. Although they are represented in units of percentage of cases, the number has increased to about double year-on-year.
Currently, Agdata operates several thousand sensors and IoT devices. Smart weather weather conditions have become the most in-question product, providing real-time hyperlocal weather forecasts to respond to erratic weather conditions . In second place is intelligent GPS navigation, allowing you to have an overview of the travels of mechanization and to plan the rides of agricultural technology in detail, thus they can bring savings in time spent in the field and fuel consumption. The third is crop control sensors, which have become the new standard in protecting crops from new pest species.
" Farmers face the greatest challenges in modern history. They must face climate change and weather fluctuations that affect the crop of virtually all cultivated crops and bring new risks in the form of pests. At the same time, they are under new pressures in the form of regulatory regulations that modify the way in which planting is handled. Digitisation must therefore become a new standard,we are getting to the point where no farm can do without it, " says Jiří Musil, Managing Director of Agdata. At the same time, it states that the pace of digitisation should be even faster in the light of circumstances.
Czech farmers have ideal conditions for digitizing their operations. The Republic is covered with high-quality IoT signal networks, solution suppliers have many years of know-how, and the digitization of farms is also favored by the state. At the same time, technology is making them cheaper and more affordable.
"Today, it is no longer a problem to buy individual components in the e-shop and install them on your own. This will give farmers the opportunity to build and improve digital farms around the clock. With the number of farms involved, examples of good practice are also growing. That is why we expect the pace of digitization to be even faster in 2020," says Jiří Musil.
Source: ictrevue.iHNed.cz (link here)
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