Farmers’ Training on Smart Farming: Pathway to Future Agriculture

  1. Farmers’ Training on Smart Farming: Pathway to Future Agriculture

Training participants (Trainees): Total 26 (Technical staff from CNR: 2, educated farmers: 24)

Training topics:

  • Smart monitoring, control, and automation.
  • Agro-Business: Business modelling
  • Digital agriculture, data capture, storage, and transfer
  • Installation of an automated weather station
  • Smart irrigation
  • Evaporative cooling pad
  • Smart farming in Bhutan: experiences and challenges in Nahi gewog
  • Hands-on practice of smart irrigation, cooling pad, and soil and EC sensors
  • Standardization
  • Agro-health and safety: Diseases, pest, and fertilizer management, food safety and traceability
  • Orientation to the e-learning platform
General information of participants
CharacteristicsPercentage (%)
Gender 
Male65.4
Female34.6
Age group (years) 
16-2011.5
21-2530.8
26-3023.1
31-3519.2
36-4011.5
41-453.8
Education 
Middle school42.3
High school38.5
College19.2
Years of experience in farming 
0-553.8
6-1146.2

 

Result of Farmers’ Training Satisfaction Survey

Result of participants’ satisfaction from training

 

Result of knowledge assessment score