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Agriculture is the lifeblood of many emerging countries, ensuring food security and giving income and livelihoods to the world's 500 million smallholder farmer households. Food consumption will continue to rise in these developing nations as populations grow and appetites for more diversified diets grow. Smallholder farmers, on the other hand, face a slew of issues that severely limit their agricultural productivity and income potential, including a lack of knowledge about proper agronomic practices, limited access to credit and inputs, rudimentary logistics and transportation services, and poor planning and risk management. Smallholder farmers will suffer the negative consequences of prolonged global warming in the next decades, including lower yields and a higher frequency of crop and animal diseases and pests.

Smallholder farmers may benefit from digital agriculture by boosting their production and integrating into food value chains, as well as encouraging their adoption of climate-smart techniques. The development of integrated data sets combining satellite imagery, weather, and soil data, for example, is a significant step forward; service providers and development partners could use these data sets to provide farmers with more affordable credit and insurance, better early warning of crop failures, and improved farm management. This Agroplug platform's plan is exactly based on this idea, or precisely on developing these systems for their users.

Digital agriculture solutions now range from simple advice services that deliver text messages about ideal planting periods or impending insect threats to complicated, integrated systems that help farmers manage their supply chain or access financial services. These solutions often include data and content (such as agronomic assistance), an integration layer, an analytics layer, and a user-facing layer, all of which are part of a digital stack (including apps and tools). Enablers including a strong digital infrastructure, suitable government rules and policies, healthy and fully operating agricultural markets, and sufficient human resources are all supporting them. I think this can do good for the development of agriculture globally. What do you think of it?

In the digital age, consumers and food producers need to be fully empowered. They all face many problems in agriculture and supply chains in general. There are no transparency solutions for food system partners. There is also limited trust and connectivity among them. On the other hand, consumers cannot fully access food data and often have little confidence in food provenance. Blockchain-based projects like Agroplug are introducing an important trust layer to the agriculture industry, ensuring that supply chain partners’ claims and data cannot be tampered with; from cultivation and harvesting data to transportation and storage. The goal is to revolutionize food production and distribution worldwide.

Blockchain technology in digital agriculture is supposed to bring technology-driven ecosystem with fully decentralized finance. The point is to help the agriculture industry facilitate transactions and access a worldwide market with infrastructural support. A bridge is being built between the classic and crypto economies.

Efforts need to be carried out to develop sustainable and biodiversity-friendly agriculture. Blockchain-based technology helps increase traceability and transparency in agri-food supply chains. It allows food supply chain partners to connect and share information of interest. This enables food producers to cooperate seamlessly and improves coordination. With sufficient technical knowledge and business skills of blockchain digital agriculture companies like Agroplug, food producers and retailers can get greater income on their crops and products. Blockchain-based technologies enable direct connections between farmers and consumers.

At the same time, consumers can access information of interest, which can empower them and provide assurance of product safety and the processes in which food is produced. Consumers can verify that they are purchasing sustainable, healthy, and safe food. In that way, informed purchase decisions are carried out and sustainable farming practices are supported because consumers can verify product data from its beginnings (farmers’ and crop data) to production and storage.

The two concepts of smart agriculture and digital agriculture have been put forward for a long time, and everyone's understanding of them still stays literally, and there is no way to talk about their application. This is a big problem for agricultural development.

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Definition of Smart Agriculture and Digital Agriculture

The so-called digital agriculture is an agricultural production and operation method that uses information as an agricultural production factor, transforms agricultural objects, production environments, and production processes into numbers, and carries out visual expression, digital design, and information management. It integrates all materials related to agricultural production and operation. Digitization of, equipment, etc.

Smart agriculture is built on the basis of digital agriculture. It covers more diverse aspects and covers a wider range of information collection. It is guided by agricultural standardization, combined with technologies such as the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and big data, and integrates scientific and effective management methods, Standardized production methods are applied to agriculture, so as to achieve precision seeding, precision application, precise control, and full traceability of agricultural production, and achieve the goals of high agricultural yield, high quality, high efficiency, ecology, and safe production.

The difference between digital agriculture and smart agriculture

1. Smart agriculture is based on the development of digital agriculture. It belongs to an ideal development direction and model, covering a more comprehensive range and functions, and has the potential to become an endorsement of agricultural regulation.

2. Digital agriculture refers to the concrete quantification of agricultural production factors and agricultural production processes into numbers, thereby improving agricultural production efficiency and transforming intensive farming and small-scale farming economy and facility agriculture.

3. Smart agriculture The manifestation of smart economic forms in agriculture is the main direction of agricultural development in developing countries, and bears the burden of poverty eradication and economic catch-up.

The main content of digital agriculture and smart agriculture

Digital agriculture is essentially a set of digital contro

Agstack – Open-Source Digital Infrastructure for the Agriculture Ecosystem

>Open-Source Digital Infrastructure for the Agriculture Ecosystem
The AgStack Foundation seeks to improve global agriculture efficiency through the creation, maintenance and enhancement of free, re-usable, open and specialized digital infrastructure for data and applications.

https://agstack.org/

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##anti-corruption: NSS busts mayors with interfering with army draft during the war

NSS report says: when the war began on September 27th, the government declared Martial Law and general mobilization the same day. 6 men residing in 4 Armavir settlements received Draft letters. The mayors of those settlements were required to keep a record of residents and their status and report it to the military commissariat.

The mayors intentionally falsified the documents to claim the 6 men were not residing in Armenia, to help them evade the draft. The mayors are facing 3 felony charges.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1043133.html

##bail verdict for Kocharyan co-defendant Khachaturov

The judge rejected former CSTO chief Yuri Khachaturov's petition to lift his bail. He is being tried as a co-defendant along with Kocharyan and others. They are suspected of pulling the army from their positions in February of 2008, before an emergency declaration, and later using it against civilian protesters on March 1st.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1043114.html

##Armenia Wine receives free land to create 5,000 jobs / $40M investment

The government incentivized the winemaker with a free area to proceed with an investment plan. The company will create a new high-tech center called Digitown on Isakov 11/1. They will receive a nearby land for the $40M investment which will create 5,000 jobs.

Pashinyan: can they really create 5,000 jobs?

High Tech Minister: they've already created 500 in one year.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1043093.html

##export of canned food and juices grows 30-38%

The world was binge-eating and drinking during the pandemic, apparently.

Pashinyan: canned food exports +30%, canned juices +38%. This is important because it shows that the processing industry works. But we have one very bad indicator; grape wine and cognac spirit exports declined by ~20%. At the same time, internal sales grew.

https://armenpress.am/arm/news/1043098.html

##cognac spirit exporters will receive tax refunds

Pashinyan: last year we finally managed to organize the collection and mass-purchase of grapes despite the issues faced by our companies abroad. For this process to succeed this year, and for our products to be more competitive abroad, we must provide incentives to export cognac spirit. The exporters will receive waivers for state fees. We expect the exports to grow 40% or 3M liters and reach