The current state of connectivity in rural areas where a significant part of food cultivation takes place is inadequate for modern agricultural operations. Cellular networks are often only designed to provide connectivity around populated centres and farms located in remote rural regions, away from population centres, are not getting sufficient coverage to meet their digital needs. Private 5G networks, tailored to agricultural environments, can alleviate the digital inequality perpetuated by conventional wireless networks by providing localized connectivity that “falls through the cracks” with public networks.
Niral Networks is taking a position to dedicate themselves to improve the digital equality in agri-food chains underserved by the public connectivity infrastructure. With an approach of baking in connectivity into the operational model from the beginning, they envision sustainable alternatives to constrict agriculture within the ecosystems feeding the world’s growing food demand. This enables farmers to operate from regions and in environments previously not served. Areas where farming and agricultural activities are vital for local employment and food chains. As a social enterprise collaborating with stakeholders like public and urban planners, they aim to make healthy food chains and agricultural practices accessible to the broader public.
By presenting the digital opportunity in this way, even city-dwellers residing in remote regions from food cultivation can start to contribute with their actions, helping to keep consumers, food cultivators, manufacturers and communities remain in harmony. The digital fracture challenges the world on how economic activity and communities around food cultivation should be seen as an opportunity to reshape themselves.
The above perspective may make one reflect on the role rural food cultivating regions play in anchoring our culture and community in the local environment. For agricultural activity to become sustainable in the long run, it needs to be rooted in harmony between the natural and human-built environment, a delicate balance between the power of nature itself and social harmony with the ecosystems feeding us.
This is just an example of how Niral Networks strives to cultivate meaningful products and services by shaping and being shaped in return by its vision, continuously aligning the interests of its primary stakeholders; developing agricultural initiatives, people, and regions. Life drives and sustains life. Fundamentally, communities focused on healthy living that embraces growth, prosperity and the constant pursuit of an equilibrium are living by, not against nature. Niral Networks hopes to exemplify this virtuous cycle, shaping its community in the same principled way it aims to exemplify in the world at large.
You may recall we mentioned healthy, sustainable communities before, but in an effort to make the hardest possible truth accessible, we must draw attention to the fact that this perspective only arises from metropolitan centres, with tendrils stretching into nearby rural areas. Nevertheless, we aim to express a more meaningful positivity: By now you have noticed the gap between the reality we believe we are experiencing and the experience the world is offering us. Yes, metropolitan progress need not contradict with wholesome rural landscapes. We would therefore invite you to give the following introspection some room: What is this feeling, this fondness for an unrushed genuine affection for rural contexts that tugs at our conscience? Could it be society’s growing, unforced desire to reintroduce a sense of natural harmony and sincerity to enrich us with a more spiritual wisdom?
Regardless of this question, we ask that you join us in opening your minds to this most universal and humane part of ourselves.
