In an era where COVID 19 shattered the whole economy globally, Do you know the spike Agriculture and Technology receive in respect to other sectors or Are you wondering how Agriculture and Technology will dominate the world? An example is how the owner of Amazon Jeff Bezos made a whopping $24bn in the lockdown. In the lockdown, the fears and desperate need of human beings virtually set around food. The palliative of respective government was centred mostly on food which Agriculture offers
Agriculture has studied is the science and art of cultivating plants and livestock, but the scope of Agriculture cant be estimated as a result of being a key development in the rise of infrastructural development, the industrial revolution, urban mitigation whereby farming provided food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. The history of agriculture began thousands of years ago from gathering wild grains from the wilds around 105,000 years but when peasant farming began around 11,500 years ago. Pigs, sheep and cattle were domesticated over 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. Agriculture started as farming but it has evolved to different areas like
- Processing: oil, spices, biofuel, ethanol, fragrance, rubber, insecticide, pesticide, Household utensils
- Agro waste: menstruation pads, toilet papers, biofuel etc
- Agricultural science
Today, our daily activities revolve around Agriculture as it provides food for mental development/physical work, fabrics for clothing, others are Cotton, wool, leather, fuel, essential and consumer oils, paper products, wood for construction & Home decoration products.
Technology, on the other hand is the combination of techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation. Technology can simply be regarded as the knowledge of techniques, processes towards realizing a goal. The simplest form of technology is evident in our day to day activities such as the invention of vehicles like cars, aeroplanes to help convey human being from one place to the other, communication via telephone calls, social media messaging, telecommunication via aired news, live football matches, youtube, online seminars through the telephone and Internet
Technology spans over a large area of mankind such as ICT, Biotechnology, Science Laboratory and Research, Medicine and Surgery, Communication, Teaching and training
Here are 3 top reasons to embrace Agriculture and Technology
Both solve the simplest problem of Man
Name the common desires of Man, be it food, fuel, clothing, shelter, communication, transportation
Agriculture and technology have a role in solving the simplest problem of man
Since the existence of man he has always been known to strive for what to eat, wear and where to sleep which Agriculture offers either raw or in the processed form of a plant, animal resources
Human being regarded as social beings want to move and interact with his environment, technology brings man closer to his environment than any other through provision of a vehicle for transportation, internet and telephone for communication, electricity/gas to serve as fuel to work/cook food on a daily activities
Both are Fundamental to Other Sectors and Infrastructural Development
Can you list out a sector where Agriculture and Technology have not influenced? I will show you the ways they have influenced and affect
In the power sector, biofuel from Agricultural waste with the innovation from technology is considered as an alternative to LNG Gas or Gasoline Petrol with the benefit of being relatively cheap compared to other sources
In the construction, the husk of palm kernel/ Periwinkle is considered to be an alternative to gravel. Periwinkle shells can be used as a partial replacement for granite in normal construction works because the strength development in periwinkle-granite concrete is similar to those of conventional granite concrete. Without Technology, Heavy-duty vehicles and machines will not be invented
They are pivotal to Economical Change
Economic change is a shift in the structure of an economic system which can result in changes to societies, cultures and everyday life on a global or national basis, an example is COVID 19.
A pandemic which strikes the world at a time it was not prepared but Irrespective of these, Agriculture and Technology waxed stronger and powerful when it paralyse the financial institutions, crude oil sales, medicine, mining, aviation etc. Agriculture and technology received a spike in value generation, foreign exchange, job retention. Israel as a country is a major exporter of fresh produce and a world-leader in agricultural technologies despite the country geography not naturally conducive to agriculture (More than half of the land area is desert, and the climate and lack of water resources do not favour farming.
The reasons can be overemphasized more than these but I will like to stop and hear from you, what reasons resonate with you and how you will like to be helped in that regard