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Agricultural Business Technology
Rating: 3.9 out of 5(62 ratings)
271 students

Agricultural Business Technology

Digital agriculture adoption, Emerging farm technologies, Blockchain agriculture, Technology impacting irrigation etc.
Created byEric Yeboah
Last updated 4/2026
English

What you'll learn

  • Effects of digital agriculture adoption
  • Enabling environment of digital agriculture
  • Principles of precision agriculture
  • Emerging farm technologies
  • New agricultural technology in modern farming
  • Three ways technology is impacting irrigation
  • How to apply blockchain to agricultural supply chain
  • How mobile apps are helping agriculture in achieving sustainable development
  • Ways how mobile technology can boost African agriculture
  • Five ways technology has change farming
  • Agriculture connected future: how technology can yield new growth
  • Technology adoption for improving agricultural productivity in sub-saharan Africa
  • Satellite crop monitoring
  • Strategies to move from old agriculture practices to modern agriculture practices

Course content

14 sections63 lectures2h 56m total length
  • Introduction3:06

    Explore how agricultural business technology integrates blockchain, precision agriculture, satellite monitoring, and mobile solutions to boost productivity and sustainable development across Africa and beyond.

  • Agricultural technology4:25
  • Digital agriculture2:19
  • Precision agriculture5:08

    Explore precision agriculture as a farming management concept that measures intra-field variability to optimize inputs for whole-farm management using GPS, multispectral imaging, and variable-rate technology.

  • ICT in agriculture3:09
  • Satellite crop monitoring2:38
  • Prescriptive planting0:47

Requirements

  • Desire to learn more about agriculture technology
  • No special requirement

Description

farming is all about getting in touch of the world around us. The improvement in agriculture is very great, currently the world is facing challenges that part of the solution may come from effective and efficient agricultural. The rapid growth of the world population is a very great sign that everybody need to be involved in the agricultural business so that we all can feed the increase people and save more food for future food shortages. Now technology is a key answer to the world food challenges, technological development and advancement has increase but you will agree with me in principle that, this development is more in developed countries whilst developing countries are struggling to achieve technological development in agriculture.

Research has shown that technological irrigation can greatly improve productivity and also help increase yield which will help a lot of farmers gain profitability, but the great question we all as farmers must ask is how many farmers can afford this technology?, obviously few of them, this make a lot of farmers suffer because of poor financial assistance. l will suggest to some farmers that they should form groups or associations so that they can buy some of this new technological tools and rotate them for better farming. When you look currently on the improvement in information communication technology its a great way to enhance farming but how many farmers have assess to even a mere mobile phone. l think the world must listen to farmers voice so that organization like United Nations will come in to assist farmers who are in dire need of this technological farming tools to aid their farming, there are some places even ordinary tractors can boost productivity in their farming.

The use of digital agriculture, precision agriculture and blockchain technology is some of the great panacea to improve the total agricultural sector but we need to look at it carefully are this development available every where  to assist every farmer in each continent. The current modern agricultural practices is enhancing the growth of the industry and also contributing to increase in productivity, some of the modern machines has made farming more easier than before. Technology has improve farming and most of the time it help farmers to get more yield, this enhance farmers revenue.

Who this course is for:

  • Farmers, gardeners, horticulturalist, agricultural officers, extension officers, farmers associations, governments, agricultural ministries, institutions, students, geologist, agricultural consultants, farm managers. farm owners, farm workers, food suppliers, UN food agency, managers, CEO, directors, policy makers, everybody etc.