ICT improves the farmers life in developing or undeveloped area

    Information and Communication Technology can play a important role in agriculture. Especially in area that is still under development, access to information would bring farmers effectiveness, profitability and also opportunities.
   
    With ICT, farmers could learn more information about weather, soil status and other conditions that are important to make farming decisions. They could buy seeds, fertilizer, farming tools and sell their products with better understanding of the market. They can see the prices online, find the best resources and contact with reliable buyers throughout internet. Also, they could get access to the new technology and learn to farm in more scientific ways. Such as, which crops are better suited for the environment of their land and how to improve productivity effectively. ICT also provide opportunities for farmers to expand their land by searching land available online and expand their business buy selling to larger buyers.
 
     ICT allows farmers to obtain these information that could increase productivity, increase their core competence, increase the reliability of production, and enhance the techniques they use for farming. Farmers are also exposed to large opportunities to start small business in village using ICT or collaborate with other local farmers and business to generate large scale of production and sales.
 
    All these were not possible before, especially in rural areas where transportation is not developed well. Information in those areas are closed, and the linkage between these villages and outside world highly depending on the merchant who buy crops from them. As a result, farmers has low bargaining power and the profit level are squeezed, making farmer's life hard. Also, since farming is highly depending on human power, weather condition, pest condition and the market demand, without ICT and technology, it was very tough for farmers. Less and less young people choose to stay in agricultural market, causing the declining of the market, one of the example could be China.

    However, with ICT,  farming is no longer a job requires manual labor only, it includes technology, business sense, economics, biology, chemistry and other areas of study. Overall, ICT gradually help agriculture to develop into a field that integrate with the society better with more opportunities and profitability for farmers.

Here is a short video that talks about how ICT improved farming and affect youth. Please check it out.