Agricultural genetics has traditionally focused on questions such as yield, disease resistance, drought tolerance and crop quality. These remain important, but the emergence of machine learning creates an opportunity to ask a…
Category: Digital Infrastructure
Develop Regional Crop Genetics Platforms That Breed Crops Specifically for High Value Processing Industries
Agriculture is usually organized around the crop. Farmers grow rice, banana, coconut, mango, spices or cassava, and the market determines what happens after harvest. A more advanced model would organize agriculture around…
Build Digital Markets Where Farmers Sell Processing Contracts Months Before Planting Begins
Agriculture usually begins with a decision about what to grow. A farmer chooses a crop based on experience, local conditions, expected prices and available resources. A more advanced agricultural economy could reverse…
Sell the Future Harvest Before It Exists
Agricultural markets usually begin when the crop is ready. Farmers harvest their produce, take it to a market, find a buyer and negotiate a price. Agro-processing offers a different possibility: what if…
Digital Infrastructure for Agro-Processing
Agricultural processing is often treated as a manufacturing problem: build a factory, install machines and process crops. The next generation of agro-processing will require something more—a digital infrastructure connecting farms, collection centres,…
Industrial Edge Computing Network: Bringing Intelligence Closer to the Factory
Industry 4.0 depends on enormous quantities of data. Machines, sensors, robots, cameras, vehicles and production systems continuously generate information about what is happening inside a factory. The traditional approach is to send…
Industrial Data Grid: The Digital Infrastructure for the Next Generation of Manufacturing
Industry 4.0 is often associated with robots, artificial intelligence, sensors and automated production lines. Yet none of these technologies can reach their full potential if industrial systems remain digitally disconnected. A modern…
India’s Digital Infrastructure Is Becoming a Real Estate Problem
India’s digital economy is creating a new demand for something that has traditionally been associated with housing, offices and factories: strategically located land. Data centres, cloud facilities, telecom exchanges and other digital…
India’s Digital Infrastructure Has a Time Problem
India’s digital infrastructure depends on something most users never think about: accurate time. Modern digital systems need different machines to agree on when something happened. Financial transactions, telecommunications networks, electricity grids, navigation…
India’s Monsoon Could Become a Digital Infrastructure Risk
India’s digital infrastructure is increasingly sophisticated, but much of it still operates in an environment shaped by a very old force: the monsoon. India’s dependence on digital networks means that extreme rainfall…