Digital Farming: The Future of Agriculture and Food Processing

By Sanjiv Goyal featuring Ranveer Chandra

In this article you will learn about:

• Data-driven business models.
• Supply chain transparency.
• Alternatives to Wi-Fi.
• TV White Spaces
• Farm Beats
• The technologies that will bring everyone online.
• A futurist vision of interconnectedness.
• Digital agriculture.
• Solutions for world hunger.
• What sustainable farm practices will look like in the future.

An Online Existence

We live in an increasingly digital world. We can ask Alexa to play our favorite song, set the temperature of our living room from our phone, and order food from QR code menus. Everything and everyone is going online- and those that aren’t are in danger of being socioeconomically left behind.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Ranveer Chandra, Chief Scientist at Azure Global and Microsoft, and an IIT Kharagpur alumnus, about the future of connectivity and solving the global food problem.

Wifi Alternatives: TV White Spaces

Every five years, Chandra begins a new innovative project. One of those projects was TV White Spaces, an effort to bridge the digital divide by using empty TV channels to send data. The initiative became…