Dear Rocket Scientists, Engineers, Inventors, etc, who have decided to get into agriculture:
Thank you for your efforts, and for trying to solve our problems in agriculture, BUT, agriculture is not rocket science, it’s actually quite a bit more complex!
Agriculture is thousands of years old, and we are still learning. Agriculture is a complex science built on engineering, experiment, and Love. You need to go to university in order to graduate with a degree in it, and you need to do farming for years to know how much of what you’ve learnt at the university actually works!
It’s naive to think that AI (artificial intelligence) can compensate for one’s lack of education in agriculture, and can replace farmers. Today’s problem in agriculture is not necessarily the lack of technology, but people who bring tech into agriculture w/o understanding how this complicated ecosystem works.
Agriculture is beyond tech and new ideas cannot be tested at farmers’ expense. A 50-year-old technology that farmers understand and can easily implement works much better than a new one.
Your solution for agriculture may be a new problem if you don't realize that agriculture is not rocket science, it’s actually quite a bit more complex!
Best,
Fellow Scientist and Ag-Engineer