One of the Ministry's objectives is to upgrade agriculture with technological solutions: Mkhitar Hayrapetyan attends the conference "Remote Sensing and Digital Twins: Challenges and Opportunities in Agriculture"

On July 16, the Minister of High-Tech Industry Mkhitar Hayrapetyan participated in the conference under the title of "Remote Sensing and Digital Twins: Challenges and Opportunities in Agriculture."

The Minister welcomed the participants and noted that the digital twins, artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomous systems gradually integrate into farmers' work, helping to address immediate challenges, reduce risks and losses, improve productivity and crop quality.

“Technologies and innovations play a key role in all sectors of economy, including agriculture. Interestingly enough, such solutions are widely used in many countries around the world. And so, farmers in the United States, the Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Australia and Israel actively use cutting-edge technologies. It goes to show how technology can change and improve our lives even in the most complicated areas of economy comprising too many risks and challenges. This is going to be one of our primary goals, specifically reaching agriculture development through technology solutions,” the Minister highlighted.

Arman Khojoyan, the RA Deputy Minister of Economy, and Rebecca White, Acting Director of USAID Armenia Mission, also made a speech of welcome.

The conference featured lectures on "Building an Effective Digital Agriculture Team and the Role of the Texas A&M University AgriLife Research and Outreach Center in AgroTwin," "The Influence of Satellite-Based Crop Monitoring and Yield Estimation," "UAV-Based Plant Phenotyping" and other topics.

The staff of Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Scientific Diaspora Center also shared their experience on the topics presented, together with the Armenian specialists of the area.

The conference aimed to identify challenges and opportunities in using technologies such as geospatial systems, remote sensing, artificial intelligence and digital twins in the Armenian agriculture.

The event was organized within the framework of the AGRI CAMP program funded by the US Agency for International Development and implemented by the ICARE Foundation.