FREE STATE PROVINCE AGRICULTURE AND RURAL
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slide1. FREE STATE PROVINCE AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT: RESEARCH / PROGRAM 5 DIRECTORATE ALIGNENT OF AGRICULTURE TO THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (4IR) PLANNERY SESSION PD Nchabeleng (Director) 19/08/2019<br>
slide2. CONTENTS Background to IR
Advantages of 4IR
Disadvantages of 4IR
Impact of 4IR
Competitiveness of the Free State Agricultural Sector
Opportunities
Threats
4IR Value-Proposition Alignment
Concluding Remarks<br>
slide3. Background to 1IR Long before the conception of the Industrial Revolution or 1IR, agricultural sector began to revolutionize and industrialized around 3000BC, where wheel & axis were invented in Mesopotamia, today well known as Iraq;
The 1st Industrial Revolution (1IR) dawned at around 1760 - 1840 (Iron ore for steel, coal for steam engine and textile were at the centre of development);
Major exodus of migratory labour from rural countryside to the cities were experienced in developed countries);
In 1816, a milking machine was inverted by Eli Whitney, inventor of Cotton gin at New Haven Connicticut in USA;<br>
slide4. Background to 2IR 2IR happened between 1870 and 1920, where lever machines were used as balance scale to move large objects in ancient Egyptian technology;
In 1892, a gasoline powered tractor, which gave birth to a John Deere was born in 1949;
Sasol for manufacturing of petro-chemicals incepted in 1950 in South Africa, which was 30 years after the elapse of 2IR, which ended in 1920;
2IR was science booming (internal combustion engines and automatons) and mass production era.<br>
slide5. Background to 3IR 3IR happened between 1969 - 2016, when renewable energies (nuclear, solar and wind were developed);
Planes were also invented;
Computation and robots inverted;
After effects of 2IR (interphase between 2IR & 3IR) resulted in major exodus of migratory labour from rural countryside to the cities were experienced in developing countries, which happened in the early to meet 1900);<br>
slide6. Background to 4IR 4IR is defined as a current and developing environment in which the disruptive technologies and trends such as the:
Internet of Things (IoT),
Robotics,
Virtual Reality (VR) and
Artificial Intelligence (AI) are changing the way we leave and work and it improves human life.
Agricultural Industrial Revolution of the 4IR zooms strictly at technology intelligence on efficiencies & precisioning in production.<br>
slide7. Background to 4IR … 4IR had incepted in 2016 onwards and it includes the following:
It describes the blurring/opaquesness of boundaries between the physical, digital and biological systems;
Green economy (Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) like Conservation Agriculture (CA) Practices and Bio-digesters, solar, wind, etc, for alternative energy sources.<br>
slide8. Advantages of the 4IR 4IR Key Outcomes in Agric Sector are dependant upon Economic Transformation & Growth Strategy of the Sector
Modernizing network industries – ICT, Education, Energy and Water and environment;
Lowering barriers to entry and addressing distorted patterns of ownership – markets, physical infrastructure & natural resources;
Prioritizing labour intensive industries –agriculture and tourism;
Flexible industrial and trade policy;
Promoting local & export competitiveness and regional growth.<br>
slide9. Advantages of the 4IR 4IR Key Outcomes in Agric Sector are dependant upon Economic Transformation & Growth Strategy of the Sector…<br>
slide10. Advantages of the 4IR Advantages of 4IR:
Improves productivity;
Flexibility;
Efficiency;
Reduces excess capacity;
Eliminates many manual process;<br>
slide11. Advantages of the 4IR … Advantages of 4IR …:
Developing, diffusing and governing technologies to foster:
Empowerment;
Collaboration;
Sustainable foundation for the social and economic development;
Built around shared values of the common goal, human dignity and inter-generational stewardship.<br>
slide12. Advantages of the 4IR … Advantages of 4IR (part of financial investment)…:
Makkia, Thraen & Tweeten (1999), found rate of return to public R&D to be 27% while for privately funded R&D to be 5%, thus publicly funded R&D improves productivity aligned to the 4IR;
Privately funded R&D lower rate of return is due to limited access to innovation because of secrecy and protection of information;<br>
slide13. Disadvantages of the 4IR Disadvantages of 4IR:
Deterioration of quality of life due to urbanization;
Loss of individuality of the factory workers;
The importance individual power is reduced in comparison to that of the equipment used for production;
Huge number of people moved (exodus) out of the countryside to the big cities;
Jobs often dangerous and pay less and people leave very low standard;
Workers often leave in poor housing conditions;<br>
slide14. Disadvantages of the 4IR Disadvantages of 4IR (influenced by budgeting):
Public Agricultural R&D expenditure in SA has been declining by 3.28% in the past 3 years;
During same time, privately funded agricultural R&D expenditure grew by 8.1% - mainly driven by commodity associations, which does not align to 4IR competitiveness of the Agricultural Sector;<br>
slide15. Disadvantages of the 4IR Disadvantages of 4IR (influenced by Budgeting) …
In SA the Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) as percentage of value added in agriculture declined from an average of 27% in 1970s to 16% in the past decade
In developed nations GFCF as a percentage of value-added is above 35% & in developing countries it is close to 28% on average.
R&D Investments around 2.5% in developed nations of Agri-GDP, BUT around 0.5% of Agri-GDP in South Africa.<br>
slide16. Disadvantages of the 4IR Disadvantages of 4IR (influenced by Investment Budgeting in RSA) : Figure 2:<br>
slide17. Impact of 4IR Impact of 4IR:
South Africa has the continent's most sophisticated economy, with a strong financial services industry and robust mobile market. But, with the world's largest reserves of gold, and significant mineral resources, much of the country's previous development has been linked to mining and manufacturing;
It brings significant socio-economic changes;
Increase in human population, which, along with an increase in living standards, lead to the depletion of natural resources;
The use of chemicals and fuel in factories resulted in increased air and water pollution as a result of an increased use of fossil fuels.<br>
slide18. Competitiveness of the FS Agric. Sector National Ranking of Commodities from the Free State Province
Crops / Plants (FS as Bread Basket of the country)<br>
slide19. Competitiveness of the FS Agric. Sector National Ranking of Commodities from the Free State Province
Livestock<br>
slide20. Competitiveness of the FS Agric. Sector FIGURE 3: TYPES OF RESEARCH APPLICABLE TO PUBLIC, PRIVATE, COMMUNITIES & UNIVERSITIES DOMAINS<br>
slide21. Opportunities of 4IR in the AGRIC Sector … The following are the 4IR opportunities:
Nanoscience / Nanotechnology – Is the manipulation or self-assembly of individual atoms, molecules or compounds into structures to create materials and devices with new or vastly different properties.
Nano structured catalysts of filters to increase the efficiency of pesticides & herbicides, thus:
Allowing lower doses;
Reduce environmental pollution;
Clean up existing pollutants.<br>
slide22. Opportunities of 4IR in the AGRIC Sector The following are the 4IR opportunities (Nanoscience / Nanotechnology):
New materials and beneficial materials properties such as electric efficiency, shape retention and new functionality from by-products;
Molecular treatment of diseases;
Rapid diseases detection;
Enhancing the ability of the of plants to absorb nutrients;
.<br>
slide23. Opportunities of 4IR in the AGRIC Sector … The following are the 4IR opportunities:
2) Biotechnology
Genetic engineering and sequencing;
Biological computational modelling;
Seeds to be encapsulated with nano-menclatures to germinate when sufficient moisture is available;
Nano-coating of seeds.
.<br>
slide24. Opportunities of 4IR in the AGRIC Sector … The following are the 4IR opportunities:
3) Bio-prospecting – Bio-economic value chain evaluations through components and agro-chemicals evaluations;
Identify new bio-active compounds, medicinal properties or essential oils screening and detections;
4) Precisioning agriculture’s goal is to maximize output, minimize inputs costs, monitor environmental variables and apply targeted actions;
Efficient & precise production systems;
Centralized data to determine soil & environmental conditions and plants development (Increased water use efficiency);
Scaling up;
Increase production & decrease inputs costs.
.<br>
slide25. Threats of the 4IR in the AGRIC Sector Threats of 4IR are:
Individual human capital is compromised by high – tech technologies like robotics, thus job losses;
Rapid depletion of natural resources due to population explosion, no food production;
Increased environment, air and water pollution, which affects the quality of life.<br>
slide26. 4IR Value proposition Alignment The 2013 Bio-Economic Strategy of DHEST prioritises the following sectors at centre of revolutionizing and revitalizing the economy of South Africa:
Agriculture and Agro-Process Value Chain (RAAVC, Point No 1 of the 10 – Point Plan of Government);
Pharmaceuticals;
Mining and beneficiation;
Manufacturing
Tourism and environment;
.<br>
slide27. 4IR Agri-Value proposition Agriculture and Agro-Process value chain;
Increased scales of production of various high potential grain crops and livestock due to area suitability;
Agro-value-chain and process all locally produced commodities within the province like grains for animal feed, human food and precision farming;
Bio-prospecting by identifying invader shrubs for economic and social benefits, e.g., Seriphium plumosum (Slangbos);
Reclamation of all commodities that were regarded as highest potential decades ago, e.g., cherry, maize, soya, etc<br>
slide28. Current Provincial skills development to match 4IR International<br>
slide29. Current Provincial skills development to match 4IR National<br>
slide30. Concluding Remarks Generally the Industrial Revolution refers to accelerated technological progress characterised by new innovations whose rapid application and diffusion causes an abrupt change in society;
4IR is a total set of the Industrial Revolution taking into cognisance all the other previous industrial revolutions like 1IR, 2IR and 3IR;
Taking advantage of the skills being developed by the Executive Council of the Free State Provincial Government, where children are taken all over the world to study various industries within the sector, the province is ready to face 4IR.
.<br>
slide31. RE A LEBOHA, ASANTE SANA,
DANKIE,
OBRIGADO,
ENKOSI,
MORAKOZE,
SIYABONGA,
Xie xie!!!
RE A LEBOGA,
THANK YOU,<br>
slide2. CONTENTS Background to IR
Advantages of 4IR
Disadvantages of 4IR
Impact of 4IR
Competitiveness of the Free State Agricultural Sector
Opportunities
Threats
4IR Value-Proposition Alignment
Concluding Remarks<br>
slide3. Background to 1IR Long before the conception of the Industrial Revolution or 1IR, agricultural sector began to revolutionize and industrialized around 3000BC, where wheel & axis were invented in Mesopotamia, today well known as Iraq;
The 1st Industrial Revolution (1IR) dawned at around 1760 - 1840 (Iron ore for steel, coal for steam engine and textile were at the centre of development);
Major exodus of migratory labour from rural countryside to the cities were experienced in developed countries);
In 1816, a milking machine was inverted by Eli Whitney, inventor of Cotton gin at New Haven Connicticut in USA;<br>
slide4. Background to 2IR 2IR happened between 1870 and 1920, where lever machines were used as balance scale to move large objects in ancient Egyptian technology;
In 1892, a gasoline powered tractor, which gave birth to a John Deere was born in 1949;
Sasol for manufacturing of petro-chemicals incepted in 1950 in South Africa, which was 30 years after the elapse of 2IR, which ended in 1920;
2IR was science booming (internal combustion engines and automatons) and mass production era.<br>
slide5. Background to 3IR 3IR happened between 1969 - 2016, when renewable energies (nuclear, solar and wind were developed);
Planes were also invented;
Computation and robots inverted;
After effects of 2IR (interphase between 2IR & 3IR) resulted in major exodus of migratory labour from rural countryside to the cities were experienced in developing countries, which happened in the early to meet 1900);<br>
slide6. Background to 4IR 4IR is defined as a current and developing environment in which the disruptive technologies and trends such as the:
Internet of Things (IoT),
Robotics,
Virtual Reality (VR) and
Artificial Intelligence (AI) are changing the way we leave and work and it improves human life.
Agricultural Industrial Revolution of the 4IR zooms strictly at technology intelligence on efficiencies & precisioning in production.<br>
slide7. Background to 4IR … 4IR had incepted in 2016 onwards and it includes the following:
It describes the blurring/opaquesness of boundaries between the physical, digital and biological systems;
Green economy (Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) like Conservation Agriculture (CA) Practices and Bio-digesters, solar, wind, etc, for alternative energy sources.<br>
slide8. Advantages of the 4IR 4IR Key Outcomes in Agric Sector are dependant upon Economic Transformation & Growth Strategy of the Sector
Modernizing network industries – ICT, Education, Energy and Water and environment;
Lowering barriers to entry and addressing distorted patterns of ownership – markets, physical infrastructure & natural resources;
Prioritizing labour intensive industries –agriculture and tourism;
Flexible industrial and trade policy;
Promoting local & export competitiveness and regional growth.<br>
slide9. Advantages of the 4IR 4IR Key Outcomes in Agric Sector are dependant upon Economic Transformation & Growth Strategy of the Sector…<br>
slide10. Advantages of the 4IR Advantages of 4IR:
Improves productivity;
Flexibility;
Efficiency;
Reduces excess capacity;
Eliminates many manual process;<br>
slide11. Advantages of the 4IR … Advantages of 4IR …:
Developing, diffusing and governing technologies to foster:
Empowerment;
Collaboration;
Sustainable foundation for the social and economic development;
Built around shared values of the common goal, human dignity and inter-generational stewardship.<br>
slide12. Advantages of the 4IR … Advantages of 4IR (part of financial investment)…:
Makkia, Thraen & Tweeten (1999), found rate of return to public R&D to be 27% while for privately funded R&D to be 5%, thus publicly funded R&D improves productivity aligned to the 4IR;
Privately funded R&D lower rate of return is due to limited access to innovation because of secrecy and protection of information;<br>
slide13. Disadvantages of the 4IR Disadvantages of 4IR:
Deterioration of quality of life due to urbanization;
Loss of individuality of the factory workers;
The importance individual power is reduced in comparison to that of the equipment used for production;
Huge number of people moved (exodus) out of the countryside to the big cities;
Jobs often dangerous and pay less and people leave very low standard;
Workers often leave in poor housing conditions;<br>
slide14. Disadvantages of the 4IR Disadvantages of 4IR (influenced by budgeting):
Public Agricultural R&D expenditure in SA has been declining by 3.28% in the past 3 years;
During same time, privately funded agricultural R&D expenditure grew by 8.1% - mainly driven by commodity associations, which does not align to 4IR competitiveness of the Agricultural Sector;<br>
slide15. Disadvantages of the 4IR Disadvantages of 4IR (influenced by Budgeting) …
In SA the Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) as percentage of value added in agriculture declined from an average of 27% in 1970s to 16% in the past decade
In developed nations GFCF as a percentage of value-added is above 35% & in developing countries it is close to 28% on average.
R&D Investments around 2.5% in developed nations of Agri-GDP, BUT around 0.5% of Agri-GDP in South Africa.<br>
slide16. Disadvantages of the 4IR Disadvantages of 4IR (influenced by Investment Budgeting in RSA) : Figure 2:<br>
slide17. Impact of 4IR Impact of 4IR:
South Africa has the continent's most sophisticated economy, with a strong financial services industry and robust mobile market. But, with the world's largest reserves of gold, and significant mineral resources, much of the country's previous development has been linked to mining and manufacturing;
It brings significant socio-economic changes;
Increase in human population, which, along with an increase in living standards, lead to the depletion of natural resources;
The use of chemicals and fuel in factories resulted in increased air and water pollution as a result of an increased use of fossil fuels.<br>
slide18. Competitiveness of the FS Agric. Sector National Ranking of Commodities from the Free State Province
Crops / Plants (FS as Bread Basket of the country)<br>
slide19. Competitiveness of the FS Agric. Sector National Ranking of Commodities from the Free State Province
Livestock<br>
slide20. Competitiveness of the FS Agric. Sector FIGURE 3: TYPES OF RESEARCH APPLICABLE TO PUBLIC, PRIVATE, COMMUNITIES & UNIVERSITIES DOMAINS<br>
slide21. Opportunities of 4IR in the AGRIC Sector … The following are the 4IR opportunities:
Nanoscience / Nanotechnology – Is the manipulation or self-assembly of individual atoms, molecules or compounds into structures to create materials and devices with new or vastly different properties.
Nano structured catalysts of filters to increase the efficiency of pesticides & herbicides, thus:
Allowing lower doses;
Reduce environmental pollution;
Clean up existing pollutants.<br>
slide22. Opportunities of 4IR in the AGRIC Sector The following are the 4IR opportunities (Nanoscience / Nanotechnology):
New materials and beneficial materials properties such as electric efficiency, shape retention and new functionality from by-products;
Molecular treatment of diseases;
Rapid diseases detection;
Enhancing the ability of the of plants to absorb nutrients;
.<br>
slide23. Opportunities of 4IR in the AGRIC Sector … The following are the 4IR opportunities:
2) Biotechnology
Genetic engineering and sequencing;
Biological computational modelling;
Seeds to be encapsulated with nano-menclatures to germinate when sufficient moisture is available;
Nano-coating of seeds.
.<br>
slide24. Opportunities of 4IR in the AGRIC Sector … The following are the 4IR opportunities:
3) Bio-prospecting – Bio-economic value chain evaluations through components and agro-chemicals evaluations;
Identify new bio-active compounds, medicinal properties or essential oils screening and detections;
4) Precisioning agriculture’s goal is to maximize output, minimize inputs costs, monitor environmental variables and apply targeted actions;
Efficient & precise production systems;
Centralized data to determine soil & environmental conditions and plants development (Increased water use efficiency);
Scaling up;
Increase production & decrease inputs costs.
.<br>
slide25. Threats of the 4IR in the AGRIC Sector Threats of 4IR are:
Individual human capital is compromised by high – tech technologies like robotics, thus job losses;
Rapid depletion of natural resources due to population explosion, no food production;
Increased environment, air and water pollution, which affects the quality of life.<br>
slide26. 4IR Value proposition Alignment The 2013 Bio-Economic Strategy of DHEST prioritises the following sectors at centre of revolutionizing and revitalizing the economy of South Africa:
Agriculture and Agro-Process Value Chain (RAAVC, Point No 1 of the 10 – Point Plan of Government);
Pharmaceuticals;
Mining and beneficiation;
Manufacturing
Tourism and environment;
.<br>
slide27. 4IR Agri-Value proposition Agriculture and Agro-Process value chain;
Increased scales of production of various high potential grain crops and livestock due to area suitability;
Agro-value-chain and process all locally produced commodities within the province like grains for animal feed, human food and precision farming;
Bio-prospecting by identifying invader shrubs for economic and social benefits, e.g., Seriphium plumosum (Slangbos);
Reclamation of all commodities that were regarded as highest potential decades ago, e.g., cherry, maize, soya, etc<br>
slide28. Current Provincial skills development to match 4IR International<br>
slide29. Current Provincial skills development to match 4IR National<br>
slide30. Concluding Remarks Generally the Industrial Revolution refers to accelerated technological progress characterised by new innovations whose rapid application and diffusion causes an abrupt change in society;
4IR is a total set of the Industrial Revolution taking into cognisance all the other previous industrial revolutions like 1IR, 2IR and 3IR;
Taking advantage of the skills being developed by the Executive Council of the Free State Provincial Government, where children are taken all over the world to study various industries within the sector, the province is ready to face 4IR.
.<br>
slide31. RE A LEBOHA, ASANTE SANA,
DANKIE,
OBRIGADO,
ENKOSI,
MORAKOZE,
SIYABONGA,
Xie xie!!!
RE A LEBOGA,
THANK YOU,<br>