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Food security has been recognized as one of the important elements to be considered in our daily lives. Farmers as the ‘front liners’ in producing the food and dealing with the natural resources need to be fed with good techniques and information needed to ensure their productions become more systematic each day. This is important to ensure that the farmers get to know the latest information and technology to breed their plants and crops progressively. Everyone needs to have practical skills in using technology to access, manage, manipulate and create information in an ethical and sustainable way. It is a continual learning process because of constant new applications and updates are conducted from time to time. The current trend which are using the digital platforms in delivering information to the society makes everyone realize that the basic information skills are very much needed to be obtained. Same goes to the digital agricultural information that would be used by the farmers all over the world. Some of the countries in the modern world have already employ the technology in enhancing their crop’s plantations from small to a huge scale of trading. Basic digital literacy must be acquired by the farmers to materialize this effort. Then only the sustainability of the food security in various places can be extended globally. Each farmer has different skills and experience into adoption of smart agriculture technologies. They need to be trained and educate towards the latest basic technology. For that, the sustainable food security can be accomplished. The study is planned to be conducted quantitatively, where a set of questionnaire will be distributed to the target respondents. The results of the study are crucial for the policy makers in planning the strategies of delivering related information and to educate the farmers to become the digital literate society. Therefore, the smart farming practices can be implemented and enhance from time to time.
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