Agriculture Analytics Market Size

Agriculture Analytics Market Analysis

The agriculture analytics market is projected to grow at 14.4% CAGR during the forecast period of 2021 - 2026. Agriculture analytics is the application of cutting-edge technologies like Big Data, IoT, and other analytics tools in agricultural farming. The primary growth factor for the agriculture analytics market is increasing government initiatives for deploying improved agricultural techniques. Data volumes in the agriculture sector are growing exponentially. The increasing adoption of IoT devices that collect data from connected farm equipment such as smart tractors and drones is also driving the growth of agriculture analytics. Crop growers and agribusiness players are recognizing the potential for uncovering breakthroughs on plant genomics, livestock management, soil health, and faster development of new technologies in big data and other analytics methods.

• Agriculture is the foundation of economies worldwide. Factors such as population growth, food security concerns, and climate change have propelled the industry into seeking more innovative approaches to protect and improve crop yield.
• Climate change is likely to impact agricultural production significantly. A global agricultural zone expected to be affected by such issues is Brazil's, Mato Grosso. Similarly, the Midwestern United States and eastern Australia will witness a decrease in agricultural production owing to extreme heat. These severe weather conditions are expected to stimulate the deployment of connected agriculture solutions in agriculture to increase yield and enhance efficiency.
• The United Nations forecasts that the world's population count will reach approximately 9.7 billion by 2050, a 33% increase in mouths to feed. Farmers are looking to established industry leaders and start-ups to help develop solutions to increase productivity and increase connectivity between growers and their crops.
• With the increasing use of Big Data in farming to get insights for better crop yield results, it is boosting the growth of agriculture analytics in the coming years. For example, a Brazilian company called AgroTools is using Google Cloud platform and assessing massive databases of satellite images to monitor properties spread across an area of farming land, which is as large as Denmark, Italy and France combined. The company carries out more than 200,000 analyses annually on more than 1,100 layers of information. Owing to advancements such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and drones gadgets leading to the collection of information, the company handles the total volume of data approximately 1,600 petabytes over the years.
• Major technology providers like IBM are also boosting the growth of the agriculture analytics market by helping farming analytics start-ups with bare metal servers in IBM Cloud data centers. For example, SmartRural, a Europe-based start-up has built a location intelligence platform through IBM Cloud. The platform used to combine its customer's data with its thermal, RGB drone, and multi-spectral images of fields and data from remote sensors embedded in the soil. By enriching this data, the company can identify if field water is being wasted in certain farming areas, determine the soil fertility, health of the crops, and finding areas of insect or frost damage.
• At the present COVID-19 crisis scenario, the agricultural industry across the globe has experienced significant disruptions. Scrutiny in agricultural production has steadily increased owing to food safety recalls customer demand and sustainability efforts. As stated by the Global Food Traceability Center (GFTC), the requirement of traceability of agricultural products has increased steadily due to the pandemic. This will help drive the deployment of advanced data-driven tools such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other advanced data analytics tools to help stakeholders across the supply chain.
• Players present in the market are also helping crop growers by providing smart tools to offset COVID-19 related loss. For instance, in April 2020, Locus Agricultural Solutions had announced that the company would donate its climate-smart technology to crop growers to promote regenerative agriculture practices.