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Modern agriculture today relies heavily on agritech. Instead of using technologies such as blockchain to measure the supply chain, IoT sensors are placed on the ground to test soil quality, making these farms easier for many farmers around the world.
India is the world’s second-largest producer of rice, wheat, sugarcane, cotton, almonds and other essential nutrients. While other nations in the Asia-Pacific region also produce food for the world’s population, rapid development has slowed agricultural activity in some areas.
Urban agriculture is growing in popularity in most urban areas to ensure food sustainability and availability. A.D. By 2023, the global urban agricultural market is expected to reach $ 236.4 billion, and community gardening and indoor gardens are becoming more lucrative for smallholder farmers today. Urban agriculture produces about 20% of the world’s food reserves worldwide in urban agriculture.
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According to the United Nations World Food Program, one square meter[20 kg]of food may be consumed each year. Moreover, urban agriculture could play a significant role in global food security by providing green infrastructure alternatives to climate change.
In APAC, most urban areas often do not have land for farming, especially in countries such as Singapore. With little land available for farming, most farmers in Singapore choose urban farms for the next generation.
Urban farming in Singapore
Today, technology, like the next generation of urban agriculture, is making Abyferm a local player. AbyFarm is a Singapore-based agri-technology company with a fully integrated state-of-the-art farm-to-table platform. Abby Farm Intelligent AI uses cloud-driven machines: IOT, sensors, machinery, blockchain, data analysis, high-tech self-monitoring farming systems to achieve high productivity, high sustainability and high monitoring for food safety.
AbyFarm has partnered with IT-as-service provider SPTel to address some of the challenges in AgriTech, particularly appropriate applications, sensors and technologies. Many farms often use multiple IoT devices from different suppliers with heavy investments in multiple platforms.
Susan Loh, VP, Marketing and Business Development, SPTel.
The SPTel Forum provides an integrated platform for monitoring and managing a variety of sensors and applications for urban farms, regardless of their requirements for gate deployment. The integrated platform allows urban farms to connect IoT sensors that can transmit information on key variables affecting plant health and growth, such as temperature, humidity and nutrition.
“Urban agriculture is an integral part of Singapore’s ’30 in 30′ vision, and IoT technology will continue to be a major agricultural innovation in Singapore. Enabling smart urban farms such as Abifar to use IoT to reduce labor demand and improve crop production will be critical to Singapore’s long-term success for the urban agricultural program, ”said Susan Loh, VP, Marketing and Business Development, SPTel.
An agritech ecosystem
The platform also allows urban farms to centralize all of the expanding equipment and applications, making it easier to connect additional IT sensors as they expand. In addition, through SPTel’s extensive network of secure centers around the island, city farms can use the island’s widely available IoT platform for rapid deployment across multiple sites.
“The SPTel IoT-as-a-service solution allows us to monitor multiple sensors at once for sensory data collection and analysis. With this deployment, we can become a sustainable, self-regulating urban farm with improved IOT, automation and crop booking for improved food safety and security, ”said Abifar’s Director and Co-Founder. .
Singapore’s Ministry of Sustainability and Environment has set a target of meeting 30% of the island’s food needs by 2030. Known as the “30 by 30” strategy, the vision requires a combination of factors such as sufficient space. Urban agriculture and production increase, which is based on technology acceptance and deployment.