AgriTech

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AgriTech is a Worldwide trend

Today, we see in many countries business startups come into existence, focused on AgriTech. These new Agritech companies are busy creating and innovating in insect farming, vertical farming, seed advancement, drone management, and aquaculture concepts.

The United Kingdom (UK), Israel, the Netherlands, and Canada are the first countries where farmers and students dive into these new technologies and become Agritech entrepreneurs. We already see many other countries following suit.

AgriTech covers a broad area of technologies and applications, including drones, IoT-based sensor networks, intelligent software analysis for pest and disease prediction, phase tracking, weather forecasts, automated irrigation, light and heat control, satellite photography and sensors, soil management, and other involved analytical tasks, and biotech.

These are all great concepts to use tomorrow in your antique farm to survive the current shake-out. You might not have thought about it, but you, as a farmer, can become a manufacturer of innovative agricultural products tomorrow.

Agricultural Technology

Technology means applying knowledge. Therefore, any form of farming, whether traditional or modern, incorporates agricultural technology. In Egypt and Ethiopia, people discovered how to build wooden water wheels and bring water from rivers to higher levels to irrigate fields. This was great innovative technology that we might take for granted today.

Today, we have all kinds of new technologies. For instance, a drone is a relatively inexpensive device that allows us to film and photograph a field from a high altitude, enabling us to analyze areas that are dry or wet, identify locations with insect infestations, or even spot the early stages of a disease.

This information enables a farmer to irrigate the fields much more effectively with less water and to use pesticides with much more focus. Or learn why certain parts have insects and others don't. Starting using new agricultural technologies (AgriTech) on your farm is difficult.

To transform a farming company into an Agritech company, you must implement Agritech concepts in your company's strategy, business model, and architecture. It will change many things: products, services, business processes, IT systems, software applications, staff competencies, new machines and equipment, etc.

The above image shows an example of using drones to analyze how much water and nutrition the crops, per square meter, need. This results in less water, fewer nutrients, fewer pesticides, and many more crops.

Agriculture Industry

With more and more humans on Earth, we need more sustainable agriculture. We all want a real agricultural revolution in farming. We only want the benefits, not the downsides. However, we do have these higher demands that the agricultural industry places on the natural environment, such as soil exhaustion, which some scientists attribute to increased climate change.

There are hundreds of thousands of farms on our continents. So agriculture is an industry. Where companies manufacture a wide range of products that we use in everyday modern life.

So what do we do? Well, we innovate!

We try to think of and develop new farming methods that put less stress on nature. For instance, reduce the use of fossil fuels, produce less waste, reuse energy, and work smarter and cleaner.

Use Dragon1 to make AgriTech part of your strategy or embed it in your business model, design architecture, and transformation scenarios. Then, you, as a farmer, are ready for the next innovation wave in Agriculture. You don't need to stop your agricultural company. Instead, with AgriTech + Dragon1, you can double its size and value.

How do you use Dragon1 for AgriTech?

What is AgriTech? AgriTech, as a word, is a combination of Agriculture and Technology. Agritech refers to the application of technology in agriculture, horticulture, and aquaculture. AgriTech companies aim to improve yield, efficiency, sustainability, and profitability. Agritech companies deliver products, services, or applications derived from agriculture that significantly improve the various input and output processes.

What is Dragon1? Dragon1 is an online software platform with which you can design and realize the architecture of a business startup from A to Z or visualize the digital transformation of a big existing company. Dragon1 is called the SaaS platform for Enterprise Architecture.

Agricultural Transformation in 7 Steps

You can transform your farming company into an agritech company in 7 steps using Dragon1.

These 7 steps are:

1. Analyze your current strategy map and design a future strategy map
2. Analyze your current business model and design a future business model
3. Analyze your current enterprise architecture blueprint and design a future enterprise architecture blueprint
4. Develop an IOT Architecture and discover and solve weaknesses
5. Develop a detailed AgriTech roadmap
6. Develop three AgriTech transformation scenarios and choose the best one
7. Startup projects to follow the scenario and build the conceptual blueprint

Dragon1, a SaaS platform for Enterprise Architecture, is perfectly suited for designing, visualizing, and managing your AgriTech strategy and business model.

Often, AgriTech concepts and solutions are complicated and require a lot of secure and thorough implementation to get them working and paying off.

The Dragon1 open EA Method approach with its concepts and principles (defined as working mechanisms of concepts) is maybe the best way to transform your farming company into an AgriTech company.

What is Agriculture?

We have often used the term agriculture on this page. But not everyone is familiar with that term. The definition of agriculture is: the science or practice of farming, including the cultivation of the soil for growing crops such as tomatoes, lettuce, strawberries, etc., and rearing animals to provide food, wool, and other products.

Interested to use Dragon1 to innovate your Agri-food system?

If you want to use Dragon1 for AgriTech, you can contact us via info@dragon1.com. We are delighted to discuss your ideas and needs in visualization, design, analysis, and management of AgriTech.