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| Prof. Madya Ts Dr Mohd Hanafi Ahmad Hijazi in the International Guest Lecture held by the Faculty of Engineering, University of Muhammadiyah Malang (UMM). (Photo: Syifa PR UMM) |
Technological developments, especially in agriculture and animal husbandry, are needed. Besides being able to increase the amount of production, the development of technology in these two fields will also alleviate the problems of farmers and ranchers. This was conveyed by Prof. Madya Ts Dr Mohd Hanafi Ahmad Hijazi in the International Guest Lecture held by the Faculty of Engineering, University of Muhammadiyah Malang (UMM), Wednesday (02/11). The activity, which took place at GKB 4, 9th floor, took the topic of discussion about the role of technology in three major fields, namely smart agriculture, virtual citizenship, and the role of gamification.
Furthermore, Hanafi explained that there are several advantages of applying technology in agriculture. First, it can increase crop yields even though the land used is small. Next is the optimization of harvests and also the eradication of disturbances when farming and raising livestock. The third is the use of data to predict various future events such as harvest time, number of harvests, as well as detecting the presence of diseases in plants and animals before they spread.
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"The level of human population in the future will continue to grow. Therefore, we need more food supply to meet future needs. Meanwhile, agricultural land and livestock are decreasing. Therefore, the use of technology to optimize crop and livestock yields is urgently needed,” said the Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information, University of Malaysia Sabah (UMS).
Regarding technology in agriculture and animal husbandry, Hanafi provides several examples of tools. One of the tools discussed by Hanafi is the Fish Counting System using Contrast Limited Adaptive Histogram Equalization (CLAHE) and CNN. This tool works to count fish fry on a farm. If using the conventional method, the farmer must count the fish seeds independently. However, with this tool, farmers can immediately find out the exact number of fish seeds. This tool can count five million fish fry in a day. The appearance of the fish fry will be carried out by the CLAHE tool while the calculations will be carried out by the CNN tool.
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“Another tool that can help farmers, especially fish farmers, is water quality monitoring and forecasting. Water quality is the key to sustainable aquaculture management. If the water quality is poor, the fish will die quickly. The tool model that we created has two models, namely Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM). After we compared the SVR model, it was the SVR model that was able to maintain water quality in the aquarium more than the LSTM model," said Hanafi.
On the other hand, Rector of UMM, Dr. Fauzan, M.Pd. said that the International Guest Lecture event was a strategic moment. According to him, in the future, technological developments will greatly affect people's lives. Therefore, this event will certainly give students an idea of the development of various tools to help people's lives.
“In order to prepare superior human resources (HR), UMM has prepared a program called Center for Future of Work (CFW). With this program, various departments at UMM create a superior class called Center of Excellence (CoE) where students can learn about their interests together with the industrial world directly. Hopefully, with this International Guest Lecture and CoE event, we can develop the quality of Indonesian education in a better direction,” he concluded. (cdr/syi/wil)
