Managing expectations: How high should we aim in terms of agritech?

While integrating new technology into current practices is usually a good thing, and is certainly important so as not to get left behind, even more important is to figure out first if it’s practical and feasible to be integrating the latest technology in an endeavor that hasn’t even yet caught up with the not-so-latest tech.

I hope my source heard wrong, because while AI has a huge potential to help many industries, as with all technologies, there’s a proper place and time to use it. And while AI sounds shiny and new and sexy, it may not always be the best or most cost-effective solution, especially when the barrier of entry may still be high for most farmers and fishers, or may not even be applicable to some industries at all.

I feel the same way about certain forms of technology, not AI per se, but any shiny, sexy technology forcefully applied onto an agricultural society that for the most part barely even has access to old, but practical, serviceable, and most importantly, appropriate tech. In other words, it might be a tad impractical to talk about adapting the program that gave us the Terminator when most agricultural communities don’t even have preparation and harvesting machinery and post-harvest facilities.

There’s a frankly misplaced bid to “make agriculture sexy” in order to entice young people to consider it as a source of livelihood. While attracting young farmers, fishers, and agripreneurs is important to the industry, I don’t think using influencers or making it look attractive by jazzing it up with the latest but ultimately impractical tech will help the industry in the long run.

Source: News Formal (newsformal.com)

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