The gap between technology and agriculture, barrier identification and potential solution analysis

With the recent developments, emerging technologies like artificial intelligence are being used in our daily tasks to assist us in our jobs, simplifying complex tasks, and even making decisions in specific areas. Agriculture is also touched by these developments and is actually one of the areas where applications in most of the latest technologies are found and benefited from. Surprisingly, different research shows that there is a considerable gap between technology and agricultural practices, even in developed areas, although the technological development in this field is advancing on a daily basis. This paper first gathers general information about agriculture from local farmers in a developing country through questionnaires. We also focus on farmers’ opinions about technology in agriculture and what type of barriers they encounter when it comes to implementing it in their daily work. Then, after identifying barriers, we suggest recommendations about the type of technologies that can be used and adapted in the region where questionnaires were conducted in order to find solutions for identified barriers. The solutions include technical implementations with a focus on low cost and usability (user friendly) with the goal to also extend to regions with similar characteristics.