Transforming Agriculture Supply Chain with Technology Adoption-: A Critical Review of Literature

Abstract

With the increase in the global population, natural disasters and climatic changes the agricultural supply chain faces lots of challenges due to fluctuations of both supply and demand sides. This is adding pressure on the agriculture supply chain demanding it to be more productive and efficient. Adapting to technology to improve the agriculture supply chain have been identified as one solution. As the rest of the world is moving towards digital transformation, agriculture supply chains should follow the suite in order to meet the current challenges they face. This article reviews the literature on technology and technology applications in the agriculture supply chain. This article has identified the technological applications that have been built with respect to agricultural processes. Among them, it has found that, IoT as the technology which was based on many technology applications developed within the past few years. Further, this highlights IoT, Big Data and Blockchain as true enablers for the transformation of the agriculture supply chain to a digital agriculture supply chain.