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by Elizaveta Zaretskaya | 04-12-2018 18:50
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Hi everyone! My name is Lisa Zaretskaya. I would like to draw your attention to my report related to SMART FARMING. Taiwan is an agricultural paradox. On the one hand the subtropical island is ideal for growing anything from avocados to zucchini and is indeed largely self-sufficient in some important crops, say rice. It produces some of the most amazing fruit in the world. Big, juicy, delicious, and largely GMO-free. Anyone who's ever visited will tell you that vegetables here taste better than almost anywhere else on Earth. On the other hand, terrain and climate are anything but ideal for agriculture. Every year heavy flooding and typhoon winds wreak havoc on plantations; vegetable prices spike in the aftermath. Due to the small sizes of plots and often steep terrain especially in orchards, farming is still a labor-intensive process. The climate isn't just fertile for plants, it also attracts a lot of pests, which means that vegetables often end up in supermarkets with significant amounts of pesticide residue. Washed out over centuries of over-cultivation, Taiwanese soil needs more fertilizer than comparable countries in the same latitude. The future is called SMART FARMING. What does smart farming need? Whether it is indoors in multi-storey hydroponic farms or small-size plots of land, whether underground cultivation or large-scale warehoused plantations, smart farming needs the following technologies: solar technology (for energy needs), lighting technology (different plants grow best a different wavelengths), drone technology (modeling of terrain, soil, water, etc.), IoT (smart sensors), semiconductors (to create those nifty sensors), software, in particular control software and data mining algorithms, and robotics (for planting and harvesting). Guess what? Taiwan is an industry leader in most of these technologies. Agriculture is increasingly becoming a lot more like manufacturing. No country in the world is better equipped for this change than Taiwan. Agriculture of the future is happening today. Thank you for your attention! |
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8 Comments
Dear mentors and friends! Thanks a lot for your comments!
Posted 16-12-2018 15:28
Hello Elizaveta, organic food are taking center stage in modern society since food resource coming from mass production are polluted with chemical compound. However, this organic ones do have shortages, since they are expensive, not all the people have accessibility to them. Triggered by the start of smart farming system, its establishment in our society will bring enormous amount of advantages to us regardless of income we earn. The ratio of GMO is still big in the food resource proportion around the globe, but thinking about the prime advantages of smart farming, it is still beneficial for all of us :)
Thanks for introducing the new type of notion for our regional ambassadors!
Posted 08-12-2018 22:43
Hello Elizaveta
What is easy to miss is that when we think about agriculture we kind of come up with the old, traditional ways that farming used to be and forget that any subject could be updated with the current technology. And smart farming truly states this well in its naming that it is time that we improve agricultural methods in a smarter way!
Glad to know more about the agriculture in Taiwan!
Thanks for the report :)
Posted 06-12-2018 19:19
Hello Elizaveta
Beautifully expressed
The future is called smart farming, indeed.
Thank you so much for this report
Posted 05-12-2018 12:00
This information is really interesting!! Goes to show that a lot of countries need to look to Taiwan to learn lessons about good agricultural practices!!
Posted 05-12-2018 01:08
hello Elizaveta Zaretskaya, Namaste
I was always amazed by agricultural technology of Israel but Taiwan is also doing very better, i feel happy, being agricultural country also we don't have such advance technology, Smart farming is the future,
Thank you for letting us know about this technology.
Thank you for the report.
Posted 04-12-2018 21:35
It feels glad to how Taiwan has grown in the technology of agriculture. Agriculture is what feeks the world and use of technology for the better and quality production is todays need to make the world food secure.
As a student of agriculture, i am more interested in this report. I hope you upload more reports so that we can learn more about it.
As it is a technology of developed countries, it is necessary to bring such technology in developing countries too.
Thank you for such interesting report Elizaveta :) :)
Posted 04-12-2018 19:59
Hey there Elizaveta!
Wow! I was unaware of how Taiwan is fast pacing itself within the agricultural sector. Moreover, with a country that takes pride in the produce they create, it's no wonder they have strides for smart farming.
I enjoyed reading your report, thank you 'Lisa!
Yours sincerely
R.
Posted 04-12-2018 19:25