Present-time agriculture faces lots of challenges including soil degradation, pollution, lack of resources, emissions, and excessive water consumption. As civilization transforms, the main industry that feeds it should transform too. Cloud-based technology and mobile devices will become the center of this worldwide change
If you’re thinking if it’s possible to create a mobile app for that one particular issue you need to tackle to make your agribusiness grow, well it’s absolutely achievable. Today, there are numerous applications for agriculture that solve problems and help producers, distributors, farmers, and big agricultural companies gather valuable data, manage crops, observe fields from above, and create smart strategies for optimizing their processes.
Let’s see what types of mobile apps for farming can bring profit to people engaged in agriculture
Mobile app for smallholder farmers
Farmers in developing countries are actively embracing smartphones, and this gives room for mobile applications that can meet their needs. In past years, lots of applications have come for individual farmers. However, the demand is far from satisfied. Let’s see what goals an agriculture app can help a smallholder farmer fulfill
There are dozens of big and small issues that a farmer's mobile app helps tackle. There are most important ways that mobile applications can be useful
- Providing information
A mobile app can give farmers valuable guidance that can help them enhance their planting, cultivating, and harvesting. This guidance may include agricultural best practices, weather forecasts, and data on disease epidemics. Such applications can also instruct new farmers and allow experienced farmers to apply new techniques. - Providing access to input markets
Inputs include all products a farmer needs for farm work, like:
- Seeds
- Fertilizers
- Pesticides
- Fungicides
An application cum a marketplace where a farmer can find all the necessary products and compare their prices
Mobile solution for a large agriculture enterprise
Large agricultural enterprises need full-fledged apps for internal management and operations. A cloud-based approach is the best choice for this, as many people should have access to data that changes dynamically.
Mobile solutions for large agribusinesses should serve different goals like:
- Instruction and knowledge
- Chat with experts
- Analyzing the current harvest growth and compare it to previous
- Monitoring fields, crops, and soil
- Adjusting strategy to weather conditions
- Planning and estimating harvest
- Real time alerts