Year: 2024 | Month: June | Volume 13 | Issue 2
Digital Divide & Agricultural Sector in Indian Context— An Overview
P.K. Paul
Ritam Chatterjee
Nilanjan Das
Ricardo Saavedra
S.K. Jena
DOI:10.46852/2249-6637.02.2024.6
Abstract:
Agriculture Informatics is dedicated in development in Agricultural sector using technology. Like industrial revolution digital
technologies are changing the systems and building an advanced, smarter as well as environmental friendly agricultural system. In
regard to, technological, and tools related concern it is noted that there are huge disparities in Agricultural technological services due
to Digital Divide. Effective farm management possible with Agriculture 4.0 systems. Various digitalization, automation systems like
artificial intelligence, robotics, big data and analytics, Internet of Things, cloud computing and virtualization, augmented reality,
HCI, usability engineering and so on are being used in many pre-production and post production of agricultural systems. Agriculture
become an industry now, and transforming also day by day rapidly. This transformation in agriculture system is highly depends
on state-of-art technology. Technological systems availability, support and systems are not same in all the countries and regions
globally or nationally. This paper is a theoretical and conceptual work dedicated in finding about the Digital Divide with reference
to its basics and features, to gather the gap of the digital systems in agricultural sectors in Indian context.
Highlights
- The Digital Divide refers to the disparity in access to technology, tools, services and the internet connectivity among different populations.
- The implementation of digital technology is responsible for Divide in Agricultural Systems.
- Digital agriculture is one of the emerging areas in agriculture and the uses of digital technology in agriculture is considered as digital agriculture.
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