QUE : How does e-technology help farmers in production and marketing of agricultural produce? Explain it.

  E-technology includes digital information-based systems that have developed extensively in all parts of our lives in the last few years. The agricultural sector has also seen benefits with its integration. Which are as follows.

•  Benefits in Agriculture
  

• Irrigation: With the induction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled methods, watering crops with less water consumption has become easier and more efficient.
  
• Climate forecasting: Forecasting the climate through the processing of data collected from sensors over time can help the farmer in making decisions regarding crop cycles and cropping patterns.
  
• Crop safety: By using sensors and integrated systems, the safety of crops from insects and pests can be ensured.
  
• Easy financing: Faster approval of loans is possible due to the increase in banking networks established on the internet and databases.
  
• Alternative methods: Methods like aquaponics and hydroponics can be integrated with e-technology to automate, control tasks usually done by humans.
  
• Knowledge empowerment: With real time monitoring, real time information, farmers have become more aware about crop sowing, harvesting and price regulation and have increased market-based knowledge. Due to the prevalence of technology, farmers’ losses have now reduced.
  
•  Benefits in Marketing:
  

• Online Marketplace: Selling of agricultural produce has become much easier due to online platforms which can show real time availability of products.
  
• Short supply chain: This can be achieved due to increased information disruption which leads to optimized transportation and warehousing process.

                  E-technology has made farming more transparent and provided farmers with efficient tools of crop production which reduces stress to a great extent.