{"id":3700,"date":"2022-11-19T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T14:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/animal\/?p=3700"},"modified":"2023-04-18T17:57:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T14:57:23","slug":"elon-musk-set-an-eye-to-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/animal\/news\/elon-musk-set-an-eye-to-tanzania","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk set an eye on Tanzania"},"content":{"rendered":"
Elon Musk\u2019s internet service Starlink<\/a> is set to be available in the country in the first quarter of 2023, with analysts cautiously saying the new development will boost the digital economy. The service, which is owned by the SpaceX<\/a> Company, has been providing internet connectivity using thousands of satellites in space that communicate with designated ground transceivers. The new service will only stimulate the digital sector if it is reasonably priced and provides fast internet.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Tanzania Communication Regulatory Authority (TCRA<\/a>) Director General Jabiri Bakari confirmed to The Citizen that the Starlink Company had made an application. The Citizen newspaper of Saturday, November 19, 2022 reported “Elon Musk\u2019s satellite internet service Starlink set to be available in Tanzania (Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Tanga, Tabora & Mwanza) between Jan – April 2023” pic.twitter.com\/yo8cMSAGA5<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Implication in Agriculture<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"With this expectation, Sokoine University of Agriculture<\/a>,\u00a0and other stakeholders we can get ready in promoting widely digital agriculture to work out the threat of food shortage in the coming years. By 2050 it is expected that the world population will be 9.7 billion people. Feeding them will require increasing current food production by up to 98%.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Digital agriculture allows the integration of technology and data analytics into agricultural practices to increase efficiency, reduce waste, and ensure food security. This includes the use of sensors, drones, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to monitor soil moisture, weather conditions, crop growth, and pest infestations. Precision farming techniques such as variable rate seeding, fertilization, and irrigation allow for more targeted use of inputs, reducing costs and increasing yields. <\/span><\/p>\n

Therefore, digital Agriculture can help with daily farm management by improving traceability, security, and automation. Digital agriculture makes use of precision and data-driven technologies to assist farmers with real-time and site-specific decision-making.\u00a0 It includes monitoring animals, prescriptive fertilizer programs, geospatial mapping, etc. Furthermore, with Digital Agriculture different farm operations can be remotely controlled from mobile phones and dashboards while getting real-time information from elsewhere. The agricultural industry is one of the sectors that can be positively affected by digital and technological transformation. The transformation has facilitated the development of new technologies that improved the accessibility, quality, and quantity of agricultural products.<\/span><\/p>\n

Possibilities of digital agriculture in the near future<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Blockchain technology can also be used to track food from farm to table, ensuring transparency and traceability in the food supply chain. Overall, digital agriculture has the potential to revolutionize the way we produce, manage, and distribute food for a more sustainable and efficient food system. Currently,\u00a0 farmers can use simple digital technologies to access useful information that could revolutionize how communities secure their livelihoods. <\/span><\/div>\n
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Today, most farmers in the world\u2019s remotest places have mobile phones and thus are equipped to receive targeted agricultural advice and market information through simple text or voice messages, even without access to the Internet. But the way we are moving now,\u00a0 digital agriculture will leverage applications of technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Low Earth Orbit (LEO), sensors, drones, robotics, cloud computing, artificial intelligence (AI), decision support software (DSS) etc.\u00a0 Therefore, digital and technological transformation in agriculture is expected to tremendously change the current agriculture production system in the near future. We have to get ready.<\/span><\/div>\n

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By\u00a0<\/span> Charles Moses Lyimo (Dr. Sci. Agr.)<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

From the Department of Animal, Aquaculture, and Range Sciences <\/a><\/span>in the College of Agriculture<\/a>, SUA<\/a>, Morogoro, Tanzania.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Elon Musk\u2019s internet service Starlink is set to be available in the country in the first quarter of 2023, with analysts cautiously saying the new development will boost the digital economy. The service, which is owned by the SpaceX Company, has been providing internet connectivity using thousands of satellites in space that communicate with designated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/animal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/animal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/animal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/animal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/animal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3700"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/animal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4547,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/animal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3700\/revisions\/4547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/animal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/animal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/animal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coa.sua.ac.tz\/animal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}