The Exploding World Population: Farming is 1000% Needed

The challenge of how we’ll feed the exploding world population in the future and in a sustainable cost-effective and environmentally friendly way of seeding an agricultural revolution. Welcome to farming of the future a hi-tech, capital-intensive system of growing a sustainably and cleanly crops or food for the masses.

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Here are the facts. Each second, the world’s population grows by nearly 240 000 people and more a day. By 2025, the global population will reach 8 billion people and 9.6 billion by 2050, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). This means there will be an extra billion mouths to feed within the next decade. And in just one generation, there will be more people additionally on the planet than at the beginning of the 20th century.

The challenges is that Many of the resources needed for sustainable food security already stretched and at the same time, climate change is already negatively impacting agricultural production globally and locally. Farms must increase production of food while keeping the environment, but they can’t do it alone and they can’t do it using today’s traditional farming practices.

Subsistence farming in poorer countries is still a labour-intensive, low-reward industry, at the mercy of unexpected environmental changes, economic downturns and many other risk factors. And while mechanized agriculture in the developed world has considerably increased output per unit of land, more is required to meet the food demands of tomorrow. Happily, though, the Internet of Things (IoT) essentially the art of connecting and integrating objects, people, information and systems for intelligent production and services is now set to push the future of farming to the next level.

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The agriculture sector needs to be primed to feed the world, Heilandt says. “For me, the most striking and important crisis is the missing common understanding that the agricultural and food sector is not a business like any other and that we need a long-term vision for agriculture.” source

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However, the Nigerians shared a very huge part of farming as feeding the world is mandatory by everybody but in the history according to Steve

• We need an urgent re-orientation!*

We have to start seeing farming as business and blood of our nation.

In those days, cocoa was the gold (and largest non-oil export) for Nigeria, mostly from west, yam and cassava was much in south and sorghum, millet were much from north.

So were rubber, maize, melon, cashew nut, sesame, groundnuts, palm kernels, palm oil, plantains, rice, soybeans etc.

Aside all these, Nigeria is blessed with a favourable soil and climate condition that can accommodate crops such as onion, carrot, cocoa yam, pear, potatoes, okra, vegetables, beans and so much more.

But we rely on oil.

In addition to that I am really impressed seeing Nigerians investing more in farming business: meaning, comes 2025-2050 it will be total independency feeding the populated Nations and no more 100% relying on oil.

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Farming is Hi-Tech as I speak to you, you must not do manually get curators like steemit and make the work earlier.

To be sincere, I got my inspiration from @papa-pepper and some #Shell workers I know whom end more from their basic #salary and others but they are seeing the future in farming business and invest in.

FARMING IS LIKE BTC you may not get the teast immediatly.

Think about this: THE WORLD NEEDS FOOD even in generations to come.

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