ABSTRACT
The agriculture industry has employed the first food harvesting citizen data scientists from the beginning of human civilization. Yet the conundrum is that today’s agriculture industry lacks the data that is globally representative to address some of the most important challenges of our time: the global warming, infest of pesticides on humans, food security for 7+ billion population, food vulnerabilities in the face of rapid decrease of natural resources, agroeconomics issues, suicide of farmers and rapid depletion of natural species. One of the chief reasons for the lack of globally well represented data in agriculture is due to unavailability of compute technologies that’s affordable, contextual, localized, connected and easy to plug-in and consume by small-scale farmers.
