Digital Technologies: A Way Forward for Developing Gender Sensitive Agripreneurship

Abstract

As we all know that Agriculture sector is facing multiple challenges of different kind e.g. production, natural resources, climate change etc. The fourth industrial revolution (i.e. Industry 4.0) may be a solution for larger extent. To implement the industry 4.0 India has a lot challenges in form of literacy and digital divide. Digital literacy in urban and rural areas are not same. According to household-level figures from the 75th round (2017-2018) of the National Sample Survey (NSS), only 4.4 percent of rural households own a computer, compared to 23.4 percent of urban households. In terms of internet access, 42 percent of urban households have access to the internet, whereas only 14.9 percent of rural households have access. Due to lack of implementation intelligent technology like IoT, Cloud Computing, Edge Computing and Unmanned Aerial vehicles, agriculture domain still have many pitfall, in terms of technology. The subsequent sections describe the challenges in digital agriculture and possible solutions for it.