The intensification of demand for food, driven directly by the addition of 1.35 billion people worldwide and a 75% increase in global per capita income (from $ 14,000 to $ 21,000) by 2030, will boost the sectors precision digital agriculture and agricultural biotechnology, focusing on productivity gains in agriculture and livestock. This is what the study “Global Macro-trends”, published by Fiesp on Tuesday (24) points out.
According to the report, the field of precision agriculture, which is expected to reach a market of $ 4.5 billion by 2020, involves solutions related to information technology in general, as well as robotics, automation, genomics, nanotechnology, among others .
“The so-called ‘field digitization’, where data on agricultural production areas are generated and processed on a large scale, will avoid crop losses and ensure higher quality of production,” the paper notes, adding that precision digital farming will allow , a better rationalization of the application of inputs and of the use of the soil.
Against this backdrop, the global market for agricultural biotechnology could
to more than $ 600 billion over the next few years, the study said. “The genetic modification of organisms to become more resistant to climate pest and weather and their adaptation to different previously unproductive environments has allowed the expansion of the agricultural frontier to semi-arid regions as well as reducing the need for the use of pesticides,” according to the report.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.