Project Name: Smart Durian Farming Project
Deployment Location: Malaysia
Targeted Industry Type: Agriculture
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Not as surprising as it may sound, Dr. Ruben Echeverría, the Director General of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), said that climate change is influencing tropical agriculture to a large extent, such as shortening growth periods of crops, less yields, and extreme weather conditions like droughts and deluges. (Foodtank, 2019). This implies that if tropical crops are not sensitively cared for, or managed properly, it could give rise to potential harvest losses. Since the weather conditions became unpredictable more than ever, farmers and food-producing companies in tropical agriculture business are striving hard to find the right partners from Industry 4.0 to adapt to climate change for sustainable agriculture practices. As heralded by the European Commission, IoT solutions will largely shape Industry 4.0 (Figure 1). This makes food production transparent, facilitates maintenance procedure precise and preventative, and optimizes farming practices by rapid data integration and knowledge transfers (European Commission, 2017).
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