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It isn't exactly like sprinkling magic dust. I do this for a living. Earlier this year I was visiting my inlaws in the developing nation and one of their farms I just had to toss my hands in the air. It would take so much money and skilled labor to get that place even to a basic level of automation.
Electricity is unreliable so they would need backup systems. City water pressure was too low and also unreliable so they will need a water tower. Plumbing and irrigation would have to be run. Right now it is them visiting every day and using hoses. You can forget about automatic planting and harvesting stuff because who exactly is going to fix it when it breaks down? Where would they get spare parts?
When you see a factory humming away you aren't seeing the decades of work it took to get to that point at that site or the venture capital or the legions of support people for failures or the logistics network for replacing broken parts.