Farming-as-a-Service (FaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for Sustainable Agriculture 4.0 Ecosystem: A Supply Chain Management Perspective

Abstract

Agriculture is considered as the pillar of India which can fulfill the basic need of every human beings. There is basic need of efficient re-inventions of existing agriculture farming practices, combined with tech-driven innovations. Promoting new technologies to strengthen India’s agricultural research and productivity is one of the most important needs for agricultural growth. For disaster recover from the economic crisis, natural calamities, farmers in India are progressively adopting smart farming technologies like Farming-as-a-Service (FaaS), Food-as-a-Service (FaaS), Agriculture Drone-as-aService (DaaS), Equipment-as-a-Service (EaaS), Agriculture Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) models for Sustainable Agriculture domain to address the emerging issues. There is poor access to existing agriculture software application to all stakeholders of agriculture and there is no any unique software app having all FaaS available in single platform. In this paper researcher focuses on the importance to develop end-to-end innovative farming-as-aServices. As technology solution for all agriculture stakeholders like farmers, start-up, Farmepreneur, governments, Agri-entrepreneurs, equipment suppliers, agronomists and IT vendors etc.