India: Digitization Will Help Agriculture Tackle Effects of Pandemic

By The Hindu BusinessLine

Digitization of agriculture can help farmers tackle the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and farmers can ensure sale of their produce with transportation, finance, and supply chain being managed with the help of technology, according to Pune-based agritech enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, FarmERP.

Santosh Shinde, CEO and co-founder of the company, said that technology as a broad concept has always played a role when it comes to easing out tensions and crinkles in age-old systems.

“Agritech is a more specific category within the technology spectrum that provides assistance to the industry of agriculture. Farmers are getting educated, informed, and equipped with the workings and benefits of the virtual world with digital integration in their agricultural tasks,” said Shinde. He added that there are multiple ways in which agritech proves to be a supporting pillar for farmers.

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