Agriculture represents one of the oldest, most crucial, and most widespread industries around the globe. The practice of cultivating plants and livestock began around 11,500 and 10,000 years ago respectively. More than a third of the entire world’s workers are engaged in agriculture, second only to the service sector. In recent times, the labor force employed in this sector has continued to shrink, especially with the advent of increasingly sophisticated industrial agriculture and mechanization. With the rise of Industry 4.0 and subsequently Agriculture 4.0, AI has become one of the technologies used to take this field to even greater heights. Here are some ways in which AI is being used in the industrial sector.
