Technology is gaining eminence in the agricultural industries


According to Lin and Huang , users will accept technology that performs the user’s preferred task, vice versa. And this willingness to accept has revolutionized modern agricultural technology to increase the production of quality and quantity agricultural products whiles reducing loss and labor . The world population comes with its predicaments in food insecurity issues, agricultural goods and services fluctuation, price escalation, hunger, poverty, and the like . Agricultural technology stands to be the only solution to curb this canker .Tang et al. added that technology would take a significant role in agriculture in the coming decades, and farmers will become more informed and productive via smart farming with automated operations. Currently, in Ghana, every farmer in the country uses mobile connectivity in agricultural activities; in the research conducted by Verduyn et al.  indicated that billion people used smart phones, and it is estimated to go high in the mid-century. Some governments bring technology innovations into the farming industry to train the farmers about the use of farming equipment and machinery,hydroponic grow table electronic devices, and the like for them to be at par with the dynamic nature of agriculture farming .

Consequently, technology application has been a milestone in Ghana, especially in the Northern Region, where there are low per capita income and uppermost poverty rates . Farmers can use Information and Communication Technology  devices to relay information to the agricultural stakeholders who significantly influence the production of the farm crops . The study asks this question; what factors influence the youth to go into farming? This examines the factors that might affect the youth to adopt agricultural technology in Ghana, the challenges, and opportunities. Likewise, not only will this study helps fill the literature gap, but also gives a graphical assessment of other factors that influence the other toward youth farming.The rest of the paper proceeds as follows; previous works relating to agricultural technology, followed by the systematic approach of the research model and its interpretation. Next, the paper focused on the results and discussion of discoveries during the investigation. The last part is the conclusion of the study. At present agriculture farming activities entail information accuracy, forecast,proficiency in farming operations  to sustain food production . This hasbeen the consistent activity that supplies food in developing countries .Damba et al. ,  asserted that farming output mitigates the uncertainty in food production, livelihood, and poverty among the emerging economies. Technology has been a reliable instrument with diversified strategies that provide mass agriculture produce in developed nations. In the past decades, technology has changed breeding domestic animals and crop cultivation . The application of technology for agricultural growth is an unavoidable issue facing today’s farmers.

Farmers now use technological tools and other appliances to improve cultivations in the farmlands. Damba et al.  added technology in this century plays an essential role in agricultural production, flood tray especially in the area of smart farming , drone applications , decision making, sustainability, and productivity of food, . Porter and Heppelmann , defines technology as the use of machinery and scientific knowledge to reduce intensive labor whiles increasing agricultural production. Walter et al. , added these types of machinery mitigates workloads, minimizes the footprint of farming, and enhances resource integrations.Furthermore, weedicides and fertilizers have taken the place of the weeding and manure application practices among farmers in developing countries .Likewise, precision farming , has enabled accurate soil moisture measurement, and swift planting of seedlings on the farmlands . Furthermore, technology application such sensors usage such as CO2 concentration sensor, humidity sensor, etc., in the agrarian field nursing structure prevent excess materials such as water . This has made huge impacts on the variations of fertilizer,workforce, fallow period, etc. . Amankwah , asserted, technology utilization in the farming system has boosted biogas integration through raw materials such as agricultural waste, plant materials, food waste, manure, and the like.