Future perspectives on the integration of digital technologies in Agritech

Agritech is a collective term for those technologies and innovations related to functionally specialized to improve the quality of the act of raising animals and growing plants. As the interest in Agritech is accelerated due to shifting world demographics to urban farming, the increasing necessity of closed loop ecosystems to reduce the risk of potassium and phosphate depletion, more economically viable sustainable agriculture, climate change mitigation, food distribution networks powered by sensor technologies to solve the carbon footprint issue, as well as vertical agriculture systems to make use of the vast building footprint that cities provide, we see the merging of themselves into a variety of disciplines addressing these challenges including genetics, food science, synthetic biology that are revolutionizing the very idea of food and food grown from the soil, precision farming or modern agriculture progressively replacing old-world heavy and expensive ag equipment, renewable energy sources to power closed loop ecosystems, advanced materials for paperbased biodegradable integrated circuits for affordable and easy to manufacture sensors, robotics and machine learning, storage technologies to reduce and better plan the cold chain.