Smart and digital agricultural systems in the context of developing countries — The root for digital society

Agricultural Systems are changing rapidly for various latest methods of cultivation including agricultural inputs, securing irrigation resources, and obtaining pesticides and fertilizers to increase crop production. And for all the activities Agricultural Informatics play a leading role and also for overcome of the existing techniques and technologies adopted in Agricultural Information Systems. Different countries adopted different policies in regard to Agriculture and Information Technology, and all these are meant for the development and growth of the Agricultural Systems and overall situation of agro. Agricultural Informatics is a combination of Agriculture Science and Information Science or Information Technology. For advancing society agriculture play a vital role, in general development of agriculture considered as development of economy and territory. Agricultural Informatics is entirely technology-driven, incorporating fundamental computing technologies and encompassing all aspects of information technologies. Today different countries have emphasized about the agricultural systems using ICT and Computing and as a result different improvement in pre-agriculture and post-agriculture considered as impactful. India is a developing country and in addition to various developments agro related development also noticeable. This work is showcase of Digital Agricultural Systems development in general and also in Indian context. Work highlighted the issues, concerns and challenges of Agricultural Information Technology in developing countries.