According to the World Trade Organization, Indonesia belongs to developing countries and it is no longer be given suitable treatment in trade, including import duties, as well as waivers in exports and imports.
Another crucial issue to be addressed is Covid-19 outbreak. This global crisis leads to profound effect toward enormous sectors particularly in health and education. its existence scrutinizes the readiness to meet food demand along with stability in business and agricultural aspect.
Indeed, the significant increase of human population requires efforts to improve the quality and quantity agricultural crop production. Appropriate strategies in improving both sectors could be generated through the application of technology related to sustainable agriculture. This refers to sustain the balance and resilience in ecosystem.
The integration of technology in the food and plantation sector provides a great opportunity to be realized with Future Farm and Precision Farming. Rapid technological developments encourage agricultural transformation such as the use of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
it is necessary to have a place to channel the latest technology from academic research. This could bridge ground-breaking research to be applied in field to expand the technology and innovation.
These problems encourage Indonesia to be able to compete and survive globally. So that preparation is needed for the Indonesian economy which includes business, agribusiness and agriculture to encourage and activate the Indonesian economy. Therefore, international conferences are needed for dissemination that bridges research results technology both domestically and internationally in order to become a reference and learning for Indonesia.