How sensors and big data can help cut food wastage #3

 
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How sensors and big data can help cut food wastage

   Food waste is bad for our environment. Roughly one-quarter of man-made greenhouse gas emissions by food waste. As food rots, it emits harmful gases. We also use a lot of water when producing food. However, when we are throwing food out, many people in undeveloped countries are facing hunger and not enough food.

   I know that we already put much effort to try to reduce food waste such as change the food waste to Biomass energy, plan when shopping and make food last longer.

   But after I read this article, I found that using big data to help us cut food wastage from farming. Modern farming can adopt big data advances such as sensor or machines which control irrigation, pesticides, and genetics.

   Use a smart machine and bib data technology to improve yield, product quality, and monitoring. Such a machine can be achieved by integrating electronic or crops. The data can then provide useful information for decision-making, through a process called data analytics.

   Some food is easy to damage before delivery or the storage period is short. So, the framer can use machine learning to detect plant diseases and fruit. These could be extended to monitoring the quality of fruit and other foods. Sensors can be used to detect insects and diseases in fruits ad vegetables such as the acidity of the soil.

   Last but not least, the evolution of technology is a double-edged sword when we using it right, it can bring much help to our lives and eco-friendly.

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  1. 廖貞傑June 26, 2020 at 6:27 AM

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  2. 廖貞傑June 26, 2020 at 6:28 AM

    In the before, a farmer needs to use their experience and knowledge to find out when is the perfect time to plant the crop, but sometimes farmers may have wrong judgment and cause a lot of losses. Take Taiwan for example, in the summer we sometimes have typhoons and thunderstorms in the afternoon. A large amount of rain can cause crops to drown, or absorb a lot of water and cause the fruit to rot. But in winter, it may happen a long time without rain, the crops are dried up and died, or because of the cold damage, the crops are frostbite and cannot be picked smoothly, cause the farmer to only bear the loss.
    With big data analysis help, farmers can not only reduce the cut of the waste doesn’t need to use that much water, or can reduce the watering before raining. In this way not only can reduce the cost of watering the corps but also avoid crops died from watering too much. I think the other problem is the problem of pest, with the big data analysis farmer can find out the problem faster and deal with it as soon as possible, before it becomes more serious.
    Thanks for Hayley share, let me know more about this because I don’t usually read books or articles about farming, to me farming is a thing that I have no interest on it and I will not touch it. I have learned a lot of knowledge let I have never thought of before.

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