The farming sector in Southeast Asia should transform to adopt digital agriculture and disruptive breeding technologies to catch up with predicted food scarcity and raise agriculture’s contribution to jobs and gross domestic product, according to an expert.

The farm sector in Southeast Asia is the least digitized sector of the economies in the region with only $4.6 billion invested for agriculture technology in 2016, according to AgFunder.

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