Many experts contend that increasing modern industrialized agriculture's use of high-yield crops, chemical pesticides, and synthetic fertilizer is not the best approach to feed a growing global population. They contend that this strategy is not environmentally nor economically sustainable, and both farmers and scientists feel entrapped by this framework.
Many American farmers and agricultural researchers want to adopt more sustainable farming practices and a greater variety of crops. But it's challenging for them to determine whether new systems would work well, particularly given the shifting climate. In comparison to communities of a century ago, modern societies have access to many more plant species and far more knowledge about how various species and ecosystems interact. In our opinion, agricultural systems aren't utilizing all that knowledge to their full potential. In a world that is changing quickly, combining it computationally could assist increase agriculture's productivity, health, and sustainability.