In this era of the fourth industrial revolution, efforts are under way worldwide to use information technology effectively and efficiently in farm production. IT plays an important role in reducing labour and bringing production under precise calculation, and livestock has seen notable progress, with great success from linking computers or mobile phones to the internet.

Over the past few years, the programme has presented several reports on the Internet of Things (IoT) in dairy farming and livestock. In 2016, it saw many uses of information and communication technology on the animal science research farms of Wageningen University in the Netherlands. In 2018, it closely observed a smart dairy farm in Chungnam, South Korea, where everything looked like a conventional farm, but remarkably almost no people ran it: a farmer named Kim controlled the whole farm from a small control room.

Nahar Dairy Farm is presented as a modern dairy farm in the mould of the developed world.

Source: Shykh Seraj, Hridoye Mati O Manush. First published in Bengali on The Agro News.