AGRICULTURE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Created by: Lady Hafidaty Rahma Kautsar, S.Si., M.Si
Master of Geography Alumni, Universitas Indonesia
ICALRD (Indonesian Center for Agricultural Land Resources Research and Development,
Ministry of Agriculture Republic of Indonesia
lhrkautsar@gmail.com / ladyhafidaty@pertanian.go.id
The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly significant. However, the use of AI in the agricultural sector is still 8%. Whereas AI opportunities in the agricultural sector are not small, especially to help agricultural productivity, which will have an impact on the welfare of farmers.
Agriculture has stages from preparation to post-harvest, but the most crucial is in the early stages, namely land preparation, maintenance and harvest yields. There are many agricultural commodities with various varieties. To get the crop yields required precision agricultural science. Extension workers and farmers sometimes have limited knowledge and funds. One of them is in the maintenance stage, when exposed to pests and diseases—it requires proper and fast handling. AI can be here to identify the types of pests and plant diseases. One of the existing forms is an AI-based android application for the detection of pests and plant diseases.
Further AI development, may later penetrate into land conditions, fertilizer needs, and so on. Input in the AI system itself is expected from experts in their fields. This will help accelerate development in the agricultural sector. Even AI, can be used in the post-harvest stage to determine crop production and productivity by entering data on certain variables. Furthermore, it would be great if all of the Ministry of Agriculture's applications could be integrated into the AI platform—which could lead to policy decisions.
Source: LHR Kautsar’s observation and understanding from various sources
Date of writing: April 8th 2022
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