A Review of E-Agriculture Applications in Developing Countries for the Youth: Challenges, Opportunities and Open Issues

Abstract

The need to incorporate ICT in agriculture is gaining popularity in order to meet the consumer demands of agricultural produce. For developing countries, eagriculture has potential for many applications that improve quality and productivity in the agricultural sector. Tae youthful generation in developing countries is more receptive to adapting to ICT and its application areas and can be more receptive to the application of eagriculture. 77ais potential is mainly driven by increased access to mobile communication and government policies that promote e-governance. However, realizing the potential of e-agriculture is faced with many challenges. Tae majority of applications to use in e-agriculture are still only in research stages and there is no clear direction on commercializing research outputs. The research is also disjointed and not well coordinated as there are no policies that clearly state which areas to prioritize. Regulation to govern the development and management of e-agriculture applications is also nonexistent.