Empowering The Agricultural Industry

Mabel GerónimoAzure Technical Specialist for Data & AImageroni@microsoft.com

Digitization has sparked a 4th industrial revolution

1780s 1870s 1970s 2015+

Mechanized production

Mass production

Automated production

Digitalproduction

Sustainable production

of global greenhouse emissions come from Agriculture24%

of global water resources are needed for Agriculture70%

liters of water to be saved in 2030 from implementing Smart Agriculture251T

Global access

Reduce poverty for 65% of the world’s poor who live in rural areas and work in farming

65%

1 in 9 people are undernourished (UN)

70% more food is needed by 2050

Economic growth

Agriculture contributes 10% of global GDP and up to 30% in low income countries

10-30%

of global workers are employed by Agriculture30%

Global Agriculture revenue$4.8T

Source: Sustainability development goals, UNITED NATIONS 2017

Agriculture needs to fundamentally transform

But innovation comes with challenges

Enabling insights

Ensuring food safety

Collaborating securely

Connecting assets• Absence of internet connectivity on farms and lack of data

• Disparate systems that lead to siloed data

• Inconsistent and fragmented data

• Inability to obtain quality data for analysis

• Difficult to gain insight from unstructured data

• Inaccessible artificial intelligence and machine learning models

• Uncertain verification of food supply chain

• Unclear impact of product recalls and origin

• Increasing demand to understand the provenance of product

• Complex cross-company collaboration concepts

• Concerns about IP and security in cross-company networks

• Insecure data sharing processes supporting “farm to table”

InputOptimize yield results and sustainability• Optimize farm input (seed, fertilizer, pesticides) with

predictive analytics• Identify unique traits with geno-phenotyping at scale• Identify sustainability risks with land cover mapping• Optimize R&D by establishing feedback loops with

farm input

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Requiring you to reimagine your business

OperateLeverage intelligent equipment and devices• Intelligent, and autonomous agricultural equipment• Remote monitoring and digital twins for farm

equipment• Animal herding and welfare

MonetizeEnable action with data-driven insights• Yield predictions• Digital assistant and agronomist• Intelligent remote operations-supply demand

forecasting• Connected field sellers

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3DistributeEnsure visibility across the value chain• Product traceability• Quality control and food safety• Tracking of compliance and reporting for

government• Condition tracking with blockchain

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Customer call centerResearch and development

Engage your customers

Empower your employees

Optimize your operations

Transform your products

Digital Transformation

Microsoft helps you transform for tomorrow

CONNECTED FARMS

Enable data collection with agriculture IoT sensors

Robotics and equipment

Farm management and sensing

FOOD SAFETY

Gain visibility into resource movement across the value chain

Track and trace

INTELLIGENT ADVISORY

Access real-time, actionable insights with remote sensing and weather patterns

SECURE DATA SHARING

Ensure data protection between agricultural entities

Supply chain

Outcome-based services

Irrigation Performance

Agriculture data platform

Research and development

Blockchain