Digital agronomist
Profession will appear after 2025-2030
Trends
Evaluation of the productivity of arable land, agrochemical examination of soils, differentiated application of materials (seeds, fertilizers, means of plant protection irrigation, etc.), satellite monitoring of vegetation, a field survey is carrying out all types of work based on the use of digital technologies (digital maps fields robot for suction of the soil samples unmanned equipment for variable rate application of materials, etc.).
Key competence :
- In higher education the specialty "agronomy",
- Ability to work with specially processed satellite images of fields to assess the productivity of arable land,
- Ability to build a route for a robot that will take samples at selected points in different areas of field productivity for agrochemical soil survey,
- Ability to program the operation of unmanned vehicles for differentiated application of materials (seeds, fertilizers, plant protection products, irrigation, etc.),
- Knows and understands different vegetation indices (for example, NDVI, EVI, GNDVI, CVI).
Over-professional skills
Systemic thinking
Intersectoral communication
Project and process management
Programming, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
Environmental thinking
Lean
Educational institutions
South Kazakhstan State University. M. Auezova
State University named after Shakarima Semey
Taraz State University named after M.Kh. Dulati
Pavlodar State University named after S. Toraigyrova
Kazakh National Agrarian University
Kostanay Engineering and Economic University named after M. Dulatova
Companies in which this profession may be in demand
JSC "Atameken Agro"
LLP "Agrofirma TNK"
Abi-Zher LLP
LLP "Agrofirm" Rodina "