Smart-farming tech may soon be available in Southeast Asia
More and more robotics as well as digital-based applications are being deployed in Europe to lend a helping hand to farmers in taking care of their farms from all sorts of threats -- bad weather, diseases and weeds among others. The technology may soon be available to farmers in Southeast Asia.
The technology has been developed in the last 10 years or so, mostly by start-up companies including French smart-farming company SMAG.
The company picked up an award for Innovation at the ongoing SIMA 2017, an international agribusiness show in Paris, which ends on March 2. The technology is expected to be introduced to assist farmers more and more to help them do their
farm work in a smarter way,said Nicolas Geslain, SMAG's sales account manager.
SMAG focuses both on developing Web solutions for managing and generating value from agronomic data, and on offering custom agro-environmental services that enable every individual operation to optimise its farming practices, according to the company's website.
The company expects the expertise to be available to farms as far as in Southeast Asia, as Internet of Things makes it possible, he said.