MOBILE APPLICATIONS AND YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN FARMING

• Main Author: Aigul Meirmanova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Oradea Publishing House 2019-03-01
• Series: Oradea Journal of Business and Economics
• Subjects: growth; innovation; farmers; technological change; economic development; yield
• Online Access: http://ojbe.steconomiceuoradea.ro/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/OJBE_vol-41_56-64.pdf

According to the UN forecasts, by 2020 the world population will be over 9 billion people, to feed this huge amount of people the food production should grow by 70%. It means that the number of farmers, who are the main suppliers in food production, should be increased. How to enlarge the number of rural farmers? By getting young people interested in farming and agriculture. But nowadays young people are prone to move to big cities. Why young people are not involved in agriculture, what initiatives are being taken to support youth in agriculture and what recommendations can be given, so that young people stay in it? Using the potential and energy of youth in agriculture, comprehensive and integrated policies, programs for markets and trade should be available with special attention to promotions and conditions for young people, who are going to be farmers. In this paper we propose mAgriculture tools such as mobile phones and its applications from throughout the world as an instrument to draw attention of young people to agriculture, showing useful and best examples how farmers could increase their profit and yield through them. These applications help to display information about current prices of agricultural products, historical charts and future prices, comparing the prices of products at different intervals, helps to find significant trends and correlations, also farmers receive information on contracts and the latest news from the agricultural area etc.