New Age Technology Boosting Agriculture Industry

Between 1970 and 2010 the world’s population doubled, while the amount of farmland remained the same.

- Rohitt Sharrma

Despite a doubling of the world’s population, the under nutrition rate has fallen by 39 percent since 1990 and people have more variety of food to choose from than ever before. Improved farming technologies have allowed the world’s farmers to produce more food on the same amount of land. Technology is the main reason behind the success of farming and its use will certainly eradicate hunger and malnutrition completely in the near future.

Farming is the Oldest Organised Industry

Farming began roughly 10,000 years ago when human hunter-gatherers realised that they could eat by cultivating wheat and other crops. Gradually agriculture led to the development of settlements and a rapid increase in human population. Many new challenges were presented by agriculture such as: the human survival was almost completely dependent on the quality of the harvest; and natural calamities like droughts when they occurred led to a poor harvest and starvation for many.

Despite the birth of agriculture nearly 10,000 years ago, little innovation in agricultural took place until only a few hundred years ago. Nearly a century ago, the US, even then the largest economy in the world was primarily agrarian and most Americans worked on farms. India is still primarily an agricultural society and farmers make up a majority of the Indian workforce.

Innovations in Agriculture