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Human capital behind thetechnology in agricultureHuman capital is not how much money humans have, instead it isdefined as the skills, knowledge, and experience possessed by anindividual or population, viewed in terms of their value or cost to anorganization or country.Ever since humans started to plant crops, the majority of ‘science’ and‘technology’ has been around increasing crop yields.Technology in agriculture is therefore a natural progression. The latestis robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The question is how doeshuman experience and knowledge interact with technology?A real-life example: irrigation probes. The main aim of the probes is totake the guesswork out of irrigation planning. The technology is veryexpensive, especially for an individual farmer, but it is claimed to beimpossible to produce optimally without it, as it identifies and treatsthe cause of suboptimal irrigation as echoed by farmers.
Although the probes guarantee accuracy and reliabilityand are temperature-compensated - and aren’t affectedby salinity, data is downloaded and processed byDFM Probe Schedule Software.It sounds simple, but agricultural AI is immensely difficultfrom an IT perspective. ‘soil’ is not just soil. Micro-climate(localised winds within one square meter)can disrupt growth, etc. All of it increases the numberof parameters incrementally. On top of, how to put ‘humanknowledge and gut feel’ into an algorithm?However, robotic technologies and AI will enable morereliable monitoring and management of natural resources,such as air and water quality. It also gives ‘producers’greater control over plant and animal production,processing, distribution, and storage, which resultsin better efficiency of the farm.But without the farmers understanding and being ableto use the robotic technologies, they are not able toachieve what they want. Farmers must be highly skilledin using IT and AI in the future.For this reason, I believe that a branch that will lookinto the relationship between human capital and technologyin agriculture will be a necessity and the onlyway to increase agricultural output to the levels requiredto feed us all.Masiziba HadebeFactsAgricultural production tripledbetween 1960 and 2015 as theworld’s population grew from 3billion people to 7 billionThe world will need to produce50 percent more food by 2050
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