Smart farming: Leveraging the impact of broadband and the digital economy

Australia’s agricultural and upstream service and processing industries face a range of new opportunities and challenges. There is growing global demand for food and the National Food Plan has scoped the opportunity for Australia to increase the value of its agriculture and food related exports by 45% by 2025. In order to realise this opportunity, Australia needs to increase its level of innovation and improve productivity in the agribusiness sector. It must needs to do this through better use of its finite resources through the adoption of more environmentally sustainable farming practices.