Opportunities and Challenges in Agri-Food Systems Enabled by Advance in Electronics

Advances in sensors, IoT and semiconductors have steered significant growth in various aspects of our modern world. Food production and security is one of the most important problem humanity is facing currently, and there is an urgent need for innovative solutions for this problem that demands diverse disciplines to come together for effective and timely solution and implementation. In this paper, we identify some of the key technologies in electronics that could potentially transform the current state-of-the-art in precision agriculture and also discuss critical challenges that needs to be overcome in order to fully tap into potential of cutting-edge advances in electronics to drive innovation in sustainable agri-food systems.