Cloud computing and climate-smart agriculture: An efficient transfer of technology mechanism

Abstract

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) predicts that the global populationwill rise to 8 billion people by 2025 and 9.6 billion by 2050. To face challenges of food production there is need to develop methods to produce more output with the limited available natural resources. Climate-smart agriculture is an approach for guiding actions required to help stakeholders around the world and identify and develop strategies in order to make agriculture more productive and sustainable. Climate change will increase the vulnerability of agricultural production systems unless scientists and farmers reorient their present approaches toward making them climate-smart or climate-resilient. Use of cloud computing technology in agriculture sector has wider opportunity in the overall development of India. Cloud computing service provider may also offer services like Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) with affordable cost. Cloud computing has been used for storage of agriculture data by government and private agencies. Use of IOT along with cloud computing can help the farmers a lot to increase the production by providing the correct communication between objects and charging according to the usage of service. Internet of things (IoT) will be beneficial to connect the devices and collect and distribute the information. IOT and cloud computing is a technology which tends to connect various objects in the world to the internet. Use of technology is constantly increasing to improve food production and commercial activities.